The Legendary Mae West
Author | : Tabatha Yeatts |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 2000-02-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0967915813 |
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Author | : Tabatha Yeatts |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 90 |
Release | : 2000-02-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0967915813 |
Author | : Simon Louvish |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 2006-11-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780312348786 |
"Louvish's research cements West's reputation as the definitive siren of suggestion, without whom there would never have been any Sex and the City." ---Publishers Weekly
Author | : Lillian Schlissel |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2013-01-11 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1136041982 |
Mae West, wise-cracking vaudeville performer, was one of the most controversial figures of her era. Rarely, however, do people think of Mae West as a writer. In Three Plays By Mae West, Lillian Schlissel brings this underexplored part of West's career to the fore by offering for the first time in book form, three of the plays West wrote in the 1920s--Sex (1926), The Drag (1927) and Pleasure Man (1928). With an insightful introduction by Schlissel, this book offers a unique look into to the life and early career of this legendary stage and screen actress.
Author | : Carol M. Ward |
Publisher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1989-03-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
This provocative work analyzes Mae West's long life and productive career in three major phases: the early theater years, her meteoric film career in the thirties, and her subsequent life as a popular culture legend. It examines her theatrical approach to life and her unique talent for translating a low comic variety style into a subtle satire of melodramatic conventions. West's attempts to control her comic creation led her into many public battles over her claims to authorship of her plays and filmscripts. The book's bibliography explores her talents as a writer, summarizing the plays and books she wrote and investigating the validity of those claims. A thorough study of West's background and attitudes, this volume combines the approaches of both biographical and critical/artistic analysis and broadens our understanding of how Mae West fits into American popular culture. The book examines West's philosophy of success and how it was reflected in her personal and professional life, and places her in a historical and cultural perspective without forcing her personality into predetermined categories. This bio-bibliography provides a fresh view of the legendary Mae West, and a new insight into the complexity of her artistry and social vision. It will be a valuable addition to all public libraries, and a useful resource in the study of American popular culture and film history.
Author | : Charlotte Chandler |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2012-12-11 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1471105849 |
Sex goddess Mae West is responsible for some of the most quoted lines in film history: * Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? * When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better. * It's not the men in my life that counts - it's the life in my men. She was a performer from childhood and debuted on Broadway in a play she wrote entitled "Sex" which was a success until it was raided for immorality and Mae was jailed for ten days. This book is packed with stars from George Raft to Cary Grant and W.C. Fields, with whom she made "My Little Chickadee", the most successful film of Fields' career. Charlotte Chandler recorded Mae West over a period of roughly a month towards the end of the star's life. She was still as vital and lively as ever, and this book will convey all of Mae West's legendary attitude.
Author | : Clive Hirschhorn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780979099441 |
In 1968, noted film and theatre critic Clive Hirschhorn was a young feature writer for the London Sunday Express. In Hollywood on assignment, he heard that the legendary Mae West "loved British accents" and was able to get an interview with the 75-year-old film star. His observations on the "official" Mae and the actual woman behind the public persona provide new insights into this complex, much caricatured, and compelling cultural icon. This book offers a funny, touching, and revealing account of the life of the woman who made it possible to say "sex" in public. Her scripted quips are legendary, and she was able to zing them in real life. When Hirschhorn asked her how she managed to look so uncannily young-at 75 her skin was flawless and her face unlined-she replied: "No secret. I go to bed early. I meditate. I eat all the correct foods, I don't smoke or drink, and I believe with a passion in myself. You can only beat nature when you show the bitch who's boss " Leonard Maltin in his Foreword says, "Mae West was an absolute-and resolute-original. There has never been anyone else quite like her. Her reputation has survived the decades. Young people might not know of her, but she is still widely quoted and referred to in articles and books. How many other show business personalities who flourished in the 1920s and '30s can say the same in the first decade of the 21st century?" Clive Hirschhorn is the author of the best-selling The Hollywood Musical, as well as Gene Kelly: A Biography, The Films of James Mason, The Warner Bros. Story, The Universal Story, and The Columbia Story.
Author | : Simon Louvish |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 491 |
Release | : 2009-05-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781437966688 |
Sex goddess, Hollywood star, transgressive playwright, author, blues singer, and vaudeville brat -- Mae West remains the 20th century¿s greatest comedienne. She made an everlasting mark in trailblazing Broadway plays such as ¿Sex¿ and ¿The Constant Sinner¿ and in films such as ¿She Done Him Wrong,¿ ¿Klondike Annie,¿ and ¿I¿m No Angel.¿ This unparalleled biography charts her amazing seven decades in show business, from early years in teenage summer stock to her last reincarnation as 1960s gay icon and grande dame of Hollywood survivors. This is the first biography to make use of Mae¿s recently uncovered personal papers, offering an unprecedented view into the endless creative drive and daring wit of this legendary star. Photos.
Author | : George Baxt |
Publisher | : St Martins Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780312098643 |
Mae West impersonators are falling victim to a vampirish killer, until the legendary siren herself decides to lead in the pursuit of the murderer. By the author of The Noel Coward Murder Case.
Author | : Jill Watts |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2003-04-17 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0190289716 |
"Why don't you come up and see me sometime?" Mae West invited and promptly captured the imagination of generations. Even today, years after her death, the actress and author is still regarded as the pop archetype of sexual wantonness and ribald humor. But who was this saucy starlet, a woman who was controversial enough to be jailed, pursued by film censors and banned from the airwaves for the revolutionary content of her work, and yet would ascend to the status of film legend? Sifting through previously untapped sources, author Jill Watts unravels the enigmatic life of Mae West, tracing her early years spent in the Brooklyn subculture of boxers and underworld figures, and follows her journey through burlesque, vaudeville, Broadway and, finally, Hollywood, where she quickly became one of the big screen's most popular--and colorful--stars. Exploring West's penchant for contradiction and her carefully perpetuated paradoxes, Watts convincingly argues that Mae West borrowed heavily from African American culture, music, dance and humor, creating a subversive voice for herself by which she artfully challenged society and its assumptions regarding race, class and gender. Viewing West as a trickster, Watts demonstrates that by appropriating for her character the black tradition of double-speak and "signifying," West also may have hinted at her own African-American ancestry and the phenomenon of a black woman passing for white. This absolutely fascinating study is the first comprehensive, interpretive account of Mae West's life and work. It reveals a beloved icon as a radically subversive artist consciously creating her own complex image.
Author | : Emily W. Leider |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2011-10-03 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0520949633 |
From the beginning, Myrna Loy’s screen image conjured mystery, a sense of something withheld. "Who is she?" was a question posed in the first fan magazine article published about her in 1925. This first ever biography of the wry and sophisticated actress best known for her role as Nora Charles, wife to dapper detective William Powell in The Thin Man, offers an unprecedented picture of her life and an extraordinary movie career that spanned six decades. Opening with Loy’s rough-and-tumble upbringing in Montana, the book takes us to Los Angeles in the 1920s, where Loy’s striking looks caught the eye of Valentino, through the silent and early sound era to her films of the thirties, when Loy became a top box office draw, and to her robust post–World War II career. Throughout, Emily W. Leider illuminates the actress’s friendships with luminaries such as Cary Grant, Clark Gable, and Joan Crawford and her collaborations with the likes of John Barrymore, David O. Selznick, Sam Goldwyn, and William Wyler, among many others. This highly engaging biography offers a fascinating slice of studio era history and gives us the first full picture of a very private woman who has often been overlooked despite her tremendous star power.