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A strict personal moral code was the ve...Parnassus<br /><br />A strict personal moral code was the very thing that the Hays Code (I would call it rigorous censorship controlled by the Government and the Catholic Church) tried so hard to enforce. But what the Code people meant by morality was preventing naked skin and overt sexuality. What West meant was supporting honesty, women's rights and gay rights. Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-57813025110593280072017-07-23T03:09:44.563+10:002017-07-23T03:09:44.563+10:00Hello Hels, I have seen some of Mae West's mo...Hello Hels, I have seen some of Mae West's movies, and beneath the jokes and shenanigans, she had the proverbial "heat of gold" as well as a surprisingly strict personal moral code (including fighting for the underdog). <br />--JimParnassushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08958901307538141468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-53524225043728291122017-07-22T21:02:26.088+10:002017-07-22T21:02:26.088+10:00bazza
sex certainly does sell! Steven Roberts in ...bazza<br /><br />sex certainly does sell! Steven Roberts in The New York Times said two movies made Mae West very famous and VERY rich. In 1934 she earned $340,000 and the next year $481,000, the second highest salary in the country, exceeded only by that of the very nasty William Randolph Hearst. <br /><br />Here is another West quotation for you to pun on: "To err is human, but it feels divine" :)Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-62735058079156377082017-07-22T20:49:16.367+10:002017-07-22T20:49:16.367+10:00Ann
great choice! Cary Grant/Captain Cummings was...Ann<br /><br />great choice! Cary Grant/Captain Cummings was a Salvation Army man of honour who set up business next door to Mae West/Lady Lou's saloon. Lou believes it is unbelievable that the sexy captain isn't simply a man to tempt ..thus your great line "Come up sometime and see me." The good captain is not a man of God, as it happens. But it all works out well (if unbelievably) in the end.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-80699560156179095822017-07-22T20:34:57.427+10:002017-07-22T20:34:57.427+10:00Deb
Mental Floss wrote that Dorothy Parker's...Deb <br /><br />Mental Floss wrote that Dorothy Parker's famous lines are sometimes attributed to Mae West and vice-versa. The two were born in exactly the same year, both wrote screenplays and both were known for their sharp wit. I cannot tell which woman wrote which quote, but the lines are still clever 80 years later.<br /><br />“Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?" <br />Apparently West made this remark in 1936, at the Los Angeles railway station upon her return from Chicago, when a Los Angeles police officer was assigned to escort her home. Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-77612426553344556802017-07-22T20:11:34.687+10:002017-07-22T20:11:34.687+10:00Andrew
The ordinary punter going to the cinema wa...Andrew<br /><br />The ordinary punter going to the cinema was not anxious about sex on screen. But the Motion Picture Production Code was the set of industry moral guidelines that was applied to films released by major studios from 1930 on. This Will Hays Code, the work the president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, was vigorously enforced from 1934 on, presumably because they saw Mae West's She Done Him Wrong (1933) and I'm No Angel (1933) and immediately loathed her. <br /><br />Joseph Breen was the administrator appointed by Hays to enforce the code in Hollywood, the man who drove Mae West mad with imprisonment and censorship. Yet you are correct.... people like Mae West managed to make great changes to society. Even gaol did not destroy her strong will.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-15846878338349024612017-07-22T19:01:02.199+10:002017-07-22T19:01:02.199+10:00Sex sells! What a fabulous lady, and very importan...<i>Sex</i> sells! What a fabulous lady, and very important for the advancement of women and liberal attitudes. I resisted the temptation to make puns on lots of this post (eg, I didn't want to say anything about a well-hung jury - oops, I said it).<br /><b><a href="http://todiscoverice.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow"> CLICK HERE for Bazza’s luminous Blog ‘To Discover Ice’</a></b>bazzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794010156639774028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-87272292825184734332017-07-22T16:33:14.613+10:002017-07-22T16:33:14.613+10:00Ms West was wonderful. A monument. and she wrote t...Ms West was wonderful. A monument. and she wrote the films and plays.<br />(I have copy of GHNToDoWithIt)<br />"My goodness dear, - those diamonds!"<br />"Goodness, my dear, had nothing to do with it"<br />Cary Grant's staircase scene is legend, as she looked him up and down in his Salvationist uniform -<br />"Why don't you ...<br />come-up and see me ... sometime."<br /><br />Thanks Hels for putting her into my head today.<br />[goes off singing "Oh I wish that I could shimmy like my sister Kate ..."]Ann ODynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01159263330547329077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-75681124113360353492017-07-22T09:57:37.462+10:002017-07-22T09:57:37.462+10:00"When I'm good, I'm very good. But wh..."When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad, I'm better." Did she write all her clever lines herself?Debnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-42245563475651142882017-07-22T08:57:37.853+10:002017-07-22T08:57:37.853+10:00Wasn't she just wonderful. Some people make gr...Wasn't she just wonderful. Some people make great changes to society by negotiation, letter writing etc, all in a very reasonable manner, but some make great changes to society by rattling the bars and shaking the foundations. Both can be respected. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com