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UTUSN

(70,684 posts)
Sun Jan 20, 2019, 02:58 AM Jan 2019

And now, pleasure has *everything* to do with it, Mae WEST!1





There's always Wiki:

.... Her next release, I'm No Angel (1933), paired her with Grant again. I'm No Angel was also a financial success, and was the most successful film of her entire movie career. In the months that followed the release of this film, reference to Mae West could be found almost anywhere, from the song lyrics of Cole Porter, to a WPA mural of San Francisco's newly built Art-Deco Coit Tower, to "She Done Him Right", a Betty Boop cartoon, to "My Dress Hangs There", a painting by renowned Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. Kahlo's equally famed muralist painter husband, Diego Rivera, paid his own tribute: "West is the most wonderful machine for living I have ever known – unfortunately on the screen only." To F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mae West was especially unique: "The only Hollywood actress with both an ironic edge and a comic spark." As Variety put it, "Mae West's films have made her the biggest conversation-provoker, free-space grabber, and all-around box-office bet in the country. She's as hot an issue as Hitler."[51] ....

Appearing as herself, West flirted with Charlie McCarthy, Bergen's dummy, using her usual brand of wit and risqué sexual references. West referred to Charlie as "all wood and a yard long" and commented, "Charles, I remember our last date, and have the splinters to prove it!"[69] West was on the verge of being banned from radio.

More outrageous still was a sketch written by Arch Oboler, starring Don Ameche and West as Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden on NBC. She told Ameche in the show to "get me a big one... I feel like doin' a big apple!"[69] This ostensible reference to the then-current dance craze was one of the many double entendres in the dialogue. Days after the broadcast, the studio received letters calling the show "immoral" and "obscene" by societies for the protection of morals.[70] Several conservative women's clubs and religious groups admonished the show's sponsor, Chase & Sanborn Coffee Company, for "prostituting" their services for allowing "impurity [to] invade the air".[67] ....

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And now, pleasure has *everything* to do with it, Mae WEST!1 (Original Post) UTUSN Jan 2019 OP
I'm am an old bluff kimbutgar Jan 2019 #1
And a writer, plus producer/whatever, extraordinary MIND UTUSN Jan 2019 #2
She just made me *splurge* merlot on my shirt with one of her YouTubes UTUSN Jan 2019 #3
I was curious because Raquel Welch bashed Mae for trying to look young mucifer Jan 2019 #4
I was lucky enough to be born on her Birthday, Aug. 17th mithnanthy Jan 2019 #5

mucifer

(23,536 posts)
4. I was curious because Raquel Welch bashed Mae for trying to look young
Sun Jan 20, 2019, 08:51 AM
Jan 2019

in that first video done 3 or 4 decades ago.

Raquel in now in her upper '70s and guess what? She is wearing wigs and tight dresses and doing the same thing as Mae.

mithnanthy

(1,725 posts)
5. I was lucky enough to be born on her Birthday, Aug. 17th
Sun Jan 20, 2019, 11:32 AM
Jan 2019

....and I have her naughty sense of humor and flair for feminine clothes. I've never worn denim in my life ..I love "fou fou" clothes.

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