The Self-Created Immortality of Mae West
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The Self-Created Immortality of Mae West
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#2> Three years later West made one more film, The Heat’s On, then swished off the screen for many years, save two late-career efforts that will go unmentioned here.
Myra Breckinridge (1970) https://youtu.be/ywcr3lYuVo0> and Sextette (1978) https://youtu.be/as6Iv5R1G0M>.
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#3In the UK, Mae West is famous for being one daughter of serial killers Fred and Rose West.
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#4> When she sings with Duke Ellington’s band in Belle of the Nineties
That performance is chilling. No one can say she didn’t understand the blues.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CpS5aPlgWa8
It feels obvious to me that she and Groucho Marx, then Bob Hope a little later, had styles that presaged the much more naturalistic acting traditions that are thought to have begun with Marlon Brando and James Dean.
Don’t know of any dramatic actors who figured it out that early.
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#5Am I dating myself by thinking of this when I read the article title?
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#6Am I dating myself by thinking of this when I read the article title? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAE-West
I wanted to read about tanks or life vests
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#7Am I dating myself by thinking of this when I read the article title? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAE-West
I personally have no idea what this article is really talking about or what the significance of it is that would cause it to be up voted so highly. Baffled.
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#8Since this was on HN I thought it was going to be about the Internet Hub.
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#9In the UK, Mae West is famous for being one daughter of serial killers Fred and Rose West. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_West
Not the same person.
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#10It's unfortunate that the article doesn't link or embed a singe audio example of her voice.
"Come up and see me sometime" https://youtu.be/xY9QxFDwiL0?t=40