I watched a documentary on her.....anyway, the commentator said, “she wasn’t that pretty & didn’t have much going for her as far as her body shape” or something like that........WTH!?! She had everything going for her and sauce to top it off! She was/is awesome & the definition of cool, baby😎🖤💋
I think her star quality radiated more from her personality, wit and confidence. She WAS average looking tho well maintained in glamour, but that wasnt why people adored her. She was a woman who always came out in top and made us laugh while doing so. ❤
I saw that documentary, that guy was being super caddy like a jealous high school teenage girl. He wouldn't know sexy if it walked up and sat in his lap.
She was stout and not pretty...tons of makeup and glamorous clothes would make anyone look better...so stop being hypocrites...and about "class" lets leave it there..
Intelligent, kind, creative and beautiful. She was one of the few studio actors who actually knew and understood the business. She used that intelligence to her advantage and didn't let the studio moguls control her every breath. She kept her cool and stayed her course. Real and true. RIP Ms. West.
She didn't drink, she didn't cuss, she didn't strip. I've never seen anything where she bedded a man down. Nothing anywhere close to what these nasty women do on stage nowadays.
Mae West did it her way. I just read her bio and she was a smart woman. Very rich when she died from investing in many deals. She was always beautiful even in her 80's. She died at age 87
Wow, she was 50 years old when she made this. They say women were washed up back then when they hit 30. She certainly was a woman way ahead of her time.
They were so desperate to pull her down, too. All the worst stuff people have to say about her seems to be about how she refused to see herself as an old, washed-up lady.
My grandfather was terrific looking even until he died at nearly 94. I don't know how the subject of Ms West came up but he struggled to describe her, finally saying she was fat, really, but he and his friends had always thought she was fantastic.
@@marshahall3059it's about her sheer presence n towering personality. She also has great gallantry n refused to accept any role that do not display her unique style to the utmost even in her eighties. The days of the great Hollywood sirens are a thing of the past as the times have changed. Fortunately they still survive in those preserved old movies
In my high school year book all the seniors were asked if we could go back in time who would we want to be and why. I said I would be Mae West because she gave class and style to us full figured women. Love her!!
@@Proverbs--tx6yr it’s not what she says, it’s how she says it. Yeah she says some things that would make someone today turn their head just to make sure they heard it right. The difference is that most people who say some off the wall stuff usually just blurt it out, but she has a way of saying it where you almost don’t catch it and then when you do it’s too late to react negatively. It’s finesse. I guess you have to appreciate the beauty of it and not dwell on the fact that she made some overtly sexual come on in a time where showing to much skin was unthinkable. It’s very elegant imo. Especially when seeing a woman break the rules and actually getting celebrated for it. Idk, that’s how I see it at least.
@Jess Stone yep. That’s what I’m going to do. Clearly you and I share the same opinion. 🙄 Love that you think I’m illiterate too... and that you also call women broads. Really elegant of you...
The days of the great Hollywood sirens are a thing of the past as the world has changed. Joan Crawford once said, you mean people nowadays are willing to pay to see someone they can see next door reflects the changing times
Ray Lehto she was from Brooklyn new york, we all have that accent, except she has more of a way of doing it, she has different voice, but me being from Brooklyn new York I have alot of mea swag in me at times and my aunts use talk like that and they all had that tough persona personality. She was ahead of her time and legend and icon.
when she was arrested the judge said Miss West, are you TRYING to show contempt for this court? She said No, YOUR Honor, I'm trying my very best to hide it.
@@blogshagify not if you were a female playwright and actress in the 30s who wrote a play called "SEX". That was grounds for arrest for indecency back then.
Neil Dickson yeah she started her career in 1930s in her 40s, she started her career late in life, but she continued doing movies up to the end. She left the movies 1950s and 1960s and made a comeback in the 1970s and passed away at age 88 in 1980. She was ahead of her time. She is from Brooklyn and we all talk like her, except she has a different way of talking. My aunt's and talk like her sometimes and they have that tough persona personality. And that vibe. We call it the Brooklinions talks. I grew up in Brooklyn. She started off in vaudeville, that's like Broadway before Broadway and before there was movies or slient films back in the 1900s.
VALERIE Ehrlich I don't think she owned a brothel, she attended a brothel also marlene dietrich, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, also went to the same brothel called one two two, named after it's address 122 rue de Provence.
VALERIE Ehrlich The brothels combined the lure of private pleasures with chic bars and restaurants for party-goers, attracting stars such as Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Mae West and Marlene Dietrich - whose favourite was the One Two Two, named after its address at 122 rue de Provence. Photographer Robert Doisneau shot a series of elegant bedrooms and four-posters in the "One Two Two", which offered couples a musketeers' room, an African room, a pirate's room, a chamber of mirrors, and, like most of the high-end brothels, a torture chamber. Writer Marcel Proust, whose taste was for men, joined other financiers in investing in two of the city's specialist brothels for men. The houses generally turned a good profit and some of its owners were crème de la crème society people. On the cultural front, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, who spent much of his time in and drew his inspiration from the Paris brothels, offered Le Chabanais 16 paintings depicting male and female centaurs for the Pompeii room. Along with crops for spanking and erotic door-knockers, a large old-fashioned wooden box fitted with lenses known as a stereoscope is on show. It enabled patrons to view pictures of the girls on offer. In most houses, tokens rather than cash were used to avoid problems. Canet has meticulously scoured the lost world of the brothels for the show and for a book, which will cover everything from its lingerie, to its tokens, literature and specialist painters and photographers. "I can tell from the backdrop now which photographer took which picture, even when there is no name," she said. "And I've discovered there were probably only five men in Paris who posed for photographers specialising in men." After collecting old erotic photos and selling them at a Paris flea market stand when she gave up life as a cabaret artiste, Canet - "by chance", she says - opened her gallery opposite the site of Le Chabanais a decade ago. "I love going back in time, discovering the stories behind the pictures," said Canet, who has walked the city checking addresses on old documents. "It is the work of an archaeologist," she said The one item missing from her collection is a copy of the famed Guide Rose, or Pink Guide, a slim pocket-size list of establishments of pleasure "in Paris, the Provinces, the Colonies". "I know two old grandfathers who have copies, but they won't sell. They're rare and people just won't part with them."
Yes! I believe the toupee-wearing actor who wants to look like a boy again is Victor Moore who starred with Beulah Bondi in a fantastic movie called Make Way For Tomorrow about an elderly couple who must live separately with young relatives. Also stars Fay Bainter and Thomas Mitchell. I highly recommend it. That and of course any Mae West film!
Wow, I think she was amazing, she possessed a beauty all her own. She did not fit the cookie cutter image of what others thought beauty should be. Earthy, witty, elegant, she combined some very different qualities and brought them together lyrically. It's a joy to see her, whether she's acting, singing, dancing or talking. We just don't see unique these days.
She was unique. She befriended homosexual male entertainers, and entertainers of color, and stuck up for them very publicly, at a time when they were not allowed to perform in the more well-known theatres and clubs, due to segregation and homophobia.
@@CaitlinBurt She was amazing and some of the greatest things she did were private efforts on behalf of downtrodden friends. She had considerable power for a woman of her day, and I wish there was more written about her life.
@@alicehallam7949 Here look at this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla_JonesJones performed some training duties from the mid- to late 1940s until the 1970s, working with Milo Savage, Johnny Wells, Irish Bob Murphy, and later with Suey Welch's boxer Gil King during the early 1970s. Jones served in WWII. In the 1950s, he taught boxing at the Boys Club in Watts. After the war, he worked for Mae West, whom he had known since he was 22, becoming her boyfriend, chauffeur and bodyguard. West was his employer, friend and supporter until her death in 1980. Jones suffered from failing eyesight in his later years from diabetes.[21][22]
@@bellagood3077 She was born in 1892 according to IMDB so it would make her 50 in 1943 when this was shot. Her year of birth may have been disputed when she was alive, especially by Miss West!
Just like Marlene Dietrich, in her late 40's , playing leading lady, with leading men 18 years younger than her. She could still could turn all the young men's heads !
"Don't look now honey, but hair is skidding." Thanks for at least a brief glimpse of this almost impossible to see film--maybe it has aired on TMC at some time, but I missed it. Performers like West deserve to have all their films available, especially these days.
Mae West originally became famous in live theater productions. She was already in her 30s when she got to Hollywood. She missed being labeled the "#1 Hollywood Blonde Bombshell" because that PR title went to Jean Harlow who, although younger than Mae, had been making hit movies before Mae arrived in "tinsel town". By the 1940s she was becoming an aging caricature of herself and her popularity waned. She was replaced by younger "Goddesses of the Silver Screen". But not to worry. She had apparently made wise business investments and went back on the road with her live shows; including her infamous "muscle men" chorus boys. She was a popular fixture on many TV shows. She also made a movie "come back"(of sorts) appearing in "MYRA BRECKENRIDGE"(1970) with Raquel Welch, and in '"SEXTETTE"( 1978) her final film which, for some reason, also included Ringo Starr(?) in the cast. She had long and interesting life and is a show biz icon.
I read a fee chapters of a bio on her and didn't know she was financially savy. She invested a lot if her earnings in Real Estate and Artwork to preserve and grow her wealth. She also wrote, starred, and sang many of her works. Great business gal 💯💍👑
What a woman. Damn i wish we the people could have gotten 500 years out of May West. She should have been shared with many many generations. The original Diva....... And 2nd to none. Things she wrote at 30 years old she could auote sord for word st 80 years old. Even it it was 10 mins long and nonstop. She never broke charactor either. No one ever saw her as her own private self but her mother after she became May West. Any time she went out or was ever interacting with someone she was always the charactor May West. Who she really was we will never know
She was more beautiful as she got older than when she first began her film career. She looks amazingly gorgeous here and so elegant and graceful. I really feel that she got into her prime a little bit later in life. According to others, she was about 50 here. Many years of practice, her acting was excellent here.She combined femininity and strength. She was more masculine acting in her earlier films and I feel she found the balance of yin and the yang when she got a little bit older. An amazing intelligent beautiful admirable woman ahead of her time as everybody else is mentioned! That just got better with age like a fine wine. Many many years ago I used to do Mae West impersonations as a professional impersonator for events and parties. I haven't done it in a long long time. I'm 61 years old now. I might be just ripe to do impersonations of her again for events. Maybe. Got to think about it LOL.
I still can't understand why the censors did not block her films. Perhaps her risque lines were so subtle that they flew over the heads of the censors.
that is why a lot of movies were great in the 30/40s for their dialogue..superb use of the double entendre, which was allowed because it wasn't overt...most kids wouldn't pick up on it. Im not sure on all the history though...there was probably backlash to some extent, and producers and studios paying journalists to write scathing pieces to ruin the credibility of some actors.
MAE WEST IS ONE OF MY FAVORITES.MAE AND DOLLY PARTON IS MY FAVORITE. THE TWO OF THEM DO HAVE MANY SIMILAR FEATURES AND WAYS ABOUT THEM.THE TWO WOULD HAVE BEEN BEST FRIENDS. I WOULD HAVE LOVED TO HAVE MET MAE WEST AND DOLLY PARTON. TO THE FAMILY OF MAE WEST KEEP MAE ALIVE IN YOUR MEMORIES PLEASE DON'T LET MAE EVER BE FORGOTTEN.
I've been fascinated by Mae West since I was a little girl. She was not a classic beauty but there was something that really spoke to men in a way most women don't understand. She was a pip!
I saw her at UCLA when a men's group there named her "Woman of the Century". She had some trouble hearing, but she dolled up in a spangled dress, blonde hair...the whole bit. The audience was a bit shocked when she didn't recognize the name Billie Holliday. But astonishingly, the voice was the same. That would have been late '60's, I believe.
she was a true lady and when i was a young kid she was a movie legend and she always looked so young even in her eighties she looked like a woman in her fifties. she saved Paramount studios and the people loved her for being herself. she gave them dreams and you could be sexual in private in a time you couldnt speak about it.
She is my hero. Funny , curvy, beautiful woman. When she lived in New York she won prizes for Latin American, Jazz dancing and belly dancing . She wanted to be a dancer first when she came to Hollywood. But discovered a love of comedy and acting.
I call everyone Hun and I got it from her. She was so cool before anyone understood what cool was. Her mind and wit were beyond. I love her and we will miss her spirit greatly ❤️🔥
Mae West was definitely one of a kind and could never ever be replaced what a beautiful lady she was I so enjoy watching her old movies . Why don't you come up and see me sometime . 💕☮️💐💐💐
"My dresses have to be tight enough to show that I'm a woman and loose enough to show that I'm a lady." Mae West to a set dressmaker??!! Absolutely fabulous. A real class act.!
Mae came over to London in 1948 to star in Diamond Lil at the Prince of Wales Theatre. While there she posed for the society photographer, Anthony Beauchamp. Her photograph appears on p.56 of his book "Focus on Fame". I have the original negative.
I watched a documentary on her.....anyway, the commentator said, “she wasn’t that pretty & didn’t have much going for her as far as her body shape” or something like that........WTH!?! She had everything going for her and sauce to top it off! She was/is awesome & the definition of cool, baby😎🖤💋
I think her star quality radiated more from her personality, wit and confidence. She WAS average looking tho well maintained in glamour, but that wasnt why people adored her. She was a woman who always came out in top and made us laugh while doing so. ❤
Was the commentator blind. She had a dynamite body
I saw that documentary, that guy was being super caddy like a jealous high school teenage girl. He wouldn't know sexy if it walked up and sat in his lap.
She was stout and not pretty...tons of makeup and glamorous clothes would make anyone look better...so stop being hypocrites...and about "class" lets leave it there..
@@paolamura3497 Envious granny
Intelligent, kind, creative and beautiful. She was one of the few studio actors who actually knew and understood the business. She used that intelligence to her advantage and didn't let the studio moguls control her every breath. She kept her cool and stayed her course. Real and true. RIP Ms. West.
Say what? She brought street walker cheapness into the cinematic bedroom. Who cares what went on behind the scenes...
She didn't drink, she didn't cuss, she didn't strip. I've never seen anything where she bedded a man down. Nothing anywhere close to what these nasty women do on stage nowadays.
Mae West did it her way. I just read her bio and she was a smart woman. Very rich when she died from investing in many deals. She was always beautiful even in her 80's. She died at age 87
Mae West is the definition of “Swagger”
Wow, she was 50 years old when she made this. They say women were washed up back then when they hit 30. She certainly was a woman way ahead of her time.
She didn't make a movie till she was 40
They were so desperate to pull her down, too. All the worst stuff people have to say about her seems to be about how she refused to see herself as an old, washed-up lady.
Thatz actually awesome..🔥🔥
My grandfather was terrific looking even until he died at nearly 94. I don't know how the subject of Ms West came up but he struggled to describe her, finally saying she was fat, really, but he and his friends had always thought she was fantastic.
@@marshahall3059it's about her sheer presence n towering personality. She also has great gallantry n refused to accept any role that do not display her unique style to the utmost even in her eighties.
The days of the great Hollywood sirens are a thing of the past as the times have changed. Fortunately they still survive in those preserved old movies
Mae West was never phony... she kept it real in her work and in her life. She had a heart.
Mae West had Marilyn Monroes body with GROUCHO MARX's sense of humor - she was a Brooklyn Bombshell of a genius ! I would have love to have met her!
Well said 😊
🤣🤣🤣
She did not have marylin Monroes body not even close
She literally has a comeback answer for everything, shes just sensational
"Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?" My favorite Mae West line.
I, to this day, always tell my guy that! lol
I used to be Snow White....but I drifted..lol.
Nancy Campbell Gibson mine is, “Girls always keep a diary, and one day it will keep you” She was he mistress of the one liners🤣❤️
My favorite is 1+1 is 2, 2+2 is 4 and 5 will get you 10 if you know how to work it... Classic Mae, lol!!!
It's pistol...is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me...come up and see me sometime
May West was a
Woman light years ahead of her time
Alpha female comfortable with her sexuality.
Her mother gave her advice on dealing with men, and she was from the 1890’s
@MorbidManMusic Again that's an old myth, she definitely was not... her features and hips a cetera not a hint of Manliness
She has the same accent as Judge Judy, and the same attitude. Really like it.
There will never again be a Mae West, she was one of a kind and a very sexy class act ! RIP you are still remembered and will be for a very long time.
There is only one Mae West. She towers above the other Hollywood screen legends with her towering personality, unique style and dialogue
I love the 'Mae West' one line quips & 'put-downs'. You know they are all 'tongue-in-cheek' and never said with venom. She virtually parodies herself.
In my high school year book all the seniors were asked if we could go back in time who would we want to be and why. I said I would be Mae West because she gave class and style to us full figured women. Love her!!
Everything she does is so elegant. She can be so lewd and yet you never think anything about it because her delivery is impeccable.
I don’t see an ounce of elegance, she’s gruff for a women of that day.
@@Proverbs--tx6yr it’s not what she says, it’s how she says it. Yeah she says some things that would make someone today turn their head just to make sure they heard it right. The difference is that most people who say some off the wall stuff usually just blurt it out, but she has a way of saying it where you almost don’t catch it and then when you do it’s too late to react negatively. It’s finesse. I guess you have to appreciate the beauty of it and not dwell on the fact that she made some overtly sexual come on in a time where showing to much skin was unthinkable. It’s very elegant imo. Especially when seeing a woman break the rules and actually getting celebrated for it. Idk, that’s how I see it at least.
Tough as nails.
@Jess Stone yep. That’s what I’m going to do. Clearly you and I share the same opinion. 🙄 Love that you think I’m illiterate too... and that you also call women broads. Really elegant of you...
It was considered lewd back then. Today we just think shes cute.
But that walk though!
Sister knew how to strut with a confidence, like no other.
She was very short so she wore like 8 inch heels that's what gave her that walk known as the "Mae West walk"
High platform shoes...
@@rdavid6981 You never see her shoes under those long dresses.
Mae West actually didn't make a lot of movies but she still is instilled in our memories. That's a true icon. Who today has Mae's impact?
Nobody
Madonna but she did a lot
@@sybotrybo1609 Madonna is trashy. Maybe Lady Gaga but she's also got some weird tendencies. Too Avant Garde.
Dolly Parton
The days of the great Hollywood sirens are a thing of the past as the world has changed.
Joan Crawford once said, you mean people nowadays are willing to pay to see someone they can see next door reflects the changing times
Always cool, never cruel. She was a true original.
Alan Kelly-Hamm+ Perfect observation/comment. Well put.
Always sexy, but never vulgar! An intelligent and classy lady!
Can't say that about many people, men or women, anymore!!
@@Darrigrande back then this was vulgar. Only by today's standards this is tame.
She was a scorcher. She handled a bad date with finesse.
Her voice is just so unique - and I love those sweet, sweet quotes.
Ray Lehto she was from Brooklyn new york, we all have that accent, except she has more of a way of doing it, she has different voice, but me being from Brooklyn new York I have alot of mea swag in me at times and my aunts use talk like that and they all had that tough persona personality. She was ahead of her time and legend and icon.
I find her voice weird
A female W.C.Fields
The original curvy girl. Mae West was truly a class act.
There is. More than her. As a curvy. Women. There are beautiful other women that were curvy before her
Curvy back then was a size 8. Curvy now is a 14.
Strong, feminine, funny & classy!! No one else in Hollywood could carbon copy her!!
when she was arrested the judge said Miss West, are you TRYING to show contempt for this court? She said No, YOUR Honor, I'm trying my very best to hide it.
David, that's SUPERB love that !
David Bergman 😅
Totally stupid she was arrested. This is the land of free, right? Pfffft!
Blog Shag 😅😆
@@blogshagify not if you were a female playwright and actress in the 30s who wrote a play called "SEX". That was grounds for arrest for indecency back then.
I Love Her gown. It’s gorgeous. Mae West was so beautiful.
If she was born in 1893 she was already in her 50's when she made this movie. She was well preserved!
I love the way she carries herself , the way she talks and her cool accent lol
"It's not the men in my life, it's the life in my men". Got to love that one!!
It's hard to believe she's over 50 here, no other star kept their dewy youthful quality like she did.
I never would have thought she was over 50 she looks at the most late 30s
Neil Dickson yeah she started her career in 1930s in her 40s, she started her career late in life, but she continued doing movies up to the end. She left the movies 1950s and 1960s and made a comeback in the 1970s and passed away at age 88 in 1980. She was ahead of her time. She is from Brooklyn and we all talk like her, except she has a different way of talking. My aunt's and talk like her sometimes and they have that tough persona personality. And that vibe. We call it the Brooklinions talks. I grew up in Brooklyn. She started off in vaudeville, that's like Broadway before Broadway and before there was movies or slient films back in the 1900s.
+June giovani is it true Mae West owned a brothel
VALERIE Ehrlich I don't think she owned a brothel, she attended a brothel also marlene dietrich, Cary Grant, Humphrey Bogart, also went to the same brothel called one two two, named after it's address 122 rue de Provence.
VALERIE Ehrlich The brothels combined the lure of private pleasures with chic bars and restaurants for party-goers, attracting stars such as Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Mae West and Marlene Dietrich - whose favourite was the One Two Two, named after its address at 122 rue de Provence.
Photographer Robert Doisneau shot a series of elegant bedrooms and four-posters in the "One Two Two", which offered couples a musketeers' room, an African room, a pirate's room, a chamber of mirrors, and, like most of the high-end brothels, a torture chamber.
Writer Marcel Proust, whose taste was for men, joined other financiers in investing in two of the city's specialist brothels for men. The houses generally turned a good profit and some of its owners were crème de la crème society people.
On the cultural front, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, who spent much of his time in and drew his inspiration from the Paris brothels, offered Le Chabanais 16 paintings depicting male and female centaurs for the Pompeii room.
Along with crops for spanking and erotic door-knockers, a large old-fashioned wooden box fitted with lenses known as a stereoscope is on show. It enabled patrons to view pictures of the girls on offer.
In most houses, tokens rather than cash were used to avoid problems.
Canet has meticulously scoured the lost world of the brothels for the show and for a book, which will cover everything from its lingerie, to its tokens, literature and specialist painters and photographers.
"I can tell from the backdrop now which photographer took which picture, even when there is no name," she said. "And I've discovered there were probably only five men in Paris who posed for photographers specialising in men."
After collecting old erotic photos and selling them at a Paris flea market stand when she gave up life as a cabaret artiste, Canet - "by chance", she says - opened her gallery opposite the site of Le Chabanais a decade ago.
"I love going back in time, discovering the stories behind the pictures," said Canet, who has walked the city checking addresses on old documents.
"It is the work of an archaeologist," she said
The one item missing from her collection is a copy of the famed Guide Rose, or Pink Guide, a slim pocket-size list of establishments of pleasure "in Paris, the Provinces, the Colonies".
"I know two old grandfathers who have copies, but they won't sell. They're rare and people just won't part with them."
This scene is so cute, such a kind character and it makes her look even more beautiful ❤️
Mae could handle any situation life threw at her. Extremely talented lady.
My favorite Mae West saying is, " I used to be Snow White but I drifted!"
And she did!
Remember her, stop talking about the six feet and discuss about the seven inches
I didn't know that one!😉
There will NEVER be another Mae West !
“Do I look like I’m a boy again?”
“I didn’t know you then”
Lmao nice save 😂
That's being gracious😄😂
Thought the same thing they say she was quickwittered
The demiurge Disclosure
Ikr
Yes! I believe the toupee-wearing actor who wants to look like a boy again is Victor Moore who starred with Beulah Bondi in a fantastic movie called Make Way For Tomorrow about an elderly couple who must live separately with young relatives. Also stars Fay Bainter and Thomas Mitchell. I highly recommend it. That and of course any Mae West film!
She was and always will be pure dynamite! 💜
"A man of forty has more charm, more poise...sometimes more money" LoL!
Wow, I think she was amazing, she possessed a beauty all her own. She did not fit the cookie cutter image of what others thought beauty should be. Earthy, witty, elegant, she combined some very different qualities and brought them together lyrically. It's a joy to see her, whether she's acting, singing, dancing or talking. We just don't see unique these days.
She was unique. She befriended homosexual male entertainers, and entertainers of color, and stuck up for them very publicly, at a time when they were not allowed to perform in the more well-known theatres and clubs, due to segregation and homophobia.
@@CaitlinBurt
She was amazing and some of the greatest things she did were private efforts on behalf of downtrodden friends. She had considerable power for a woman of her day, and I wish there was more written about her life.
@@alicehallam7949 Not only did she befriend entertainers of color, but she actually had a long term relationship with a black boxer.
@@rayarena879
Hadn't heard that and ever saw a biography on her. Maybe one day someone will write it?
@@alicehallam7949 Here look at this:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorilla_JonesJones performed some training duties from the mid- to late 1940s until the 1970s, working with Milo Savage, Johnny Wells, Irish Bob Murphy, and later with Suey Welch's boxer Gil King during the early 1970s. Jones served in WWII. In the 1950s, he taught boxing at the Boys Club in Watts. After the war, he worked for Mae West, whom he had known since he was 22, becoming her boyfriend, chauffeur and bodyguard. West was his employer, friend and supporter until her death in 1980. Jones suffered from failing eyesight in his later years from diabetes.[21][22]
Note that she DIDN'T drink! Look how great she looked, and she even said her secret to staying so hot/beautiful was avoiding alc
She was 50 at the time of this scene. This was a time when a woman of 50 was considered over the hill to put it mildly.
She didn't look 50
She is 42- 45 here I think
@@bellagood3077 She was born in 1892 according to IMDB so it would make her 50 in 1943 when this was shot. Her year of birth may have been disputed when she was alive, especially by Miss West!
Just like Marlene Dietrich, in her late 40's , playing leading lady, with leading men 18 years younger than her. She could still could turn all the young men's heads !
Gives me hope at 41 haha
I wish we had her here today!......Light years ahead of her time! Love you Mae
Mae West, was the "It Girl" She had style, personality and beauty! She took care of herself and it showed! I love her movies! 👍❤👍
Mae was simply in charge!
She kept the studio alive!
"Don't look now honey, but hair is skidding." Thanks for at least a brief glimpse of this almost impossible to see film--maybe it has aired on TMC at some time, but I missed it. Performers like West deserve to have all their films available, especially these days.
true!
What movie is this?
I love that she never lost her "cool"! Not even on a bad date!!
Mae West originally became famous in live theater productions. She was already in her 30s when she got to Hollywood.
She missed being labeled the "#1 Hollywood Blonde Bombshell" because that PR title went to Jean Harlow who, although younger than Mae, had been making hit movies before Mae arrived in "tinsel town". By the 1940s she was becoming an aging caricature of herself and her popularity waned. She was replaced by younger "Goddesses of the Silver Screen". But not to worry. She had apparently made wise business investments and went back on the road with her live shows; including her infamous "muscle men" chorus boys. She was a popular fixture on many TV shows. She also made a movie "come back"(of sorts) appearing in "MYRA BRECKENRIDGE"(1970) with Raquel Welch, and in '"SEXTETTE"( 1978) her final film which, for some reason, also included Ringo Starr(?) in the cast. She had long and interesting life and is a show biz icon.
Beautiful dress and jewelry. Love Mae West.
"Oh, don't worry... Napoleon made this himself before I met his waterloo..." amazing.
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I read a fee chapters of a bio on her and didn't know she was financially savy. She invested a lot if her earnings in Real Estate and Artwork to preserve and grow her wealth. She also wrote, starred, and sang many of her works. Great business gal 💯💍👑
When asked what type of man should I marry. She said honey leave the married men alone there are plenty of single men to choose from. 😅
Gorgeous set. I adore the beautiful lines of 4Os furniture and decor. And the clothes....so classy and elegant. 💝
What a woman. Damn i wish we the people could have gotten 500 years out of May West. She should have been shared with many many generations. The original Diva.......
And 2nd to none.
Things she wrote at 30 years old she could auote sord for word st 80 years old. Even it it was 10 mins long and nonstop. She never broke charactor either. No one ever saw her as her own private self but her mother after she became May West. Any time she went out or was ever interacting with someone she was always the charactor May West. Who she really was we will never know
It's Mae, not May. Show the lady some respect!
She was more beautiful as she got older than when she first began her film career.
She looks amazingly gorgeous here and so elegant and graceful. I really feel that she got into her prime a little bit later in life. According to others, she was about 50 here.
Many years of practice, her acting was excellent here.She combined femininity and strength. She was more masculine acting in her earlier films and I feel she found the balance of yin and the yang when she got a little bit older.
An amazing intelligent beautiful admirable woman ahead of her time as everybody else is mentioned!
That just got better with age like a fine wine.
Many many years ago I used to do Mae West impersonations as a professional impersonator for events and parties.
I haven't done it in a long long time. I'm 61 years old now. I might be just ripe to do impersonations of her again for events. Maybe. Got to think about it LOL.
Wow im curious to see her younger acting
Remember to stop talking about the six feet and discuss about the seven inches 🤭
Mae West in a class by herself 😍 (R.I.P.)
That's Victor Moore. You have to see him in "It happened on 5th Ave." to appreciate him. Love Mae.
I thought I recognized that voice but could not place him. Thanks. As I recall he was the one who occupied empty homes.
Some of the greatest one liners and all how he could deliver them.
I still can't understand why the censors did not block her films. Perhaps her risque lines were so subtle that they flew over the heads of the censors.
that is why a lot of movies were great in the 30/40s for their dialogue..superb use of the double entendre, which was allowed because it wasn't overt...most kids wouldn't pick up on it. Im not sure on all the history though...there was probably backlash to some extent, and producers and studios paying journalists to write scathing pieces to ruin the credibility of some actors.
Haha,,,always loved Mae West...what an absolute trailblazer she was !!!
MAE WEST IS ONE OF MY FAVORITES.MAE AND DOLLY PARTON IS MY FAVORITE. THE TWO OF THEM DO HAVE MANY SIMILAR FEATURES AND WAYS ABOUT THEM.THE TWO WOULD HAVE BEEN BEST FRIENDS. I WOULD HAVE LOVED TO HAVE MET MAE WEST AND DOLLY PARTON. TO THE FAMILY OF MAE WEST KEEP MAE ALIVE IN YOUR MEMORIES PLEASE DON'T LET MAE EVER BE FORGOTTEN.
She was so gorgeous. Can you imagine having skin like that at 40? Hell I don’t have that now at 26
She was 50 here.
WHAT WAS HER "*SECRET*"???!!!!!!👸🌟💋💗💗💗💗💗💘💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
Read where, from the time she was young, she shunned the sun touching her skin.
She created may west and never was out of character when people were around
Mae West was legendary! I loved her sense of humor! Definitely 1 of a kind!❤
Mae West was beautiful! She was way before her time!
Take note PEOPLE....SEXY...WITHOUT BEING TRASHY !!!!
Some girls got it, some girls don't.
I've been fascinated by Mae West since I was a little girl. She was not a classic beauty but there was something that really spoke to men in a way most women don't understand. She was a pip!
I saw her at UCLA when a men's group there named her "Woman of the Century". She had some trouble hearing, but she dolled up in a spangled dress, blonde hair...the whole bit. The audience was a bit shocked when she didn't recognize the name Billie Holliday. But astonishingly, the voice was the same. That would have been late '60's, I believe.
mae was so good at being lewd in good taste
Probably the best to-the-point description of Mae ever!
I laughed so much I cried thank you for downloading this. Sharp n witty pure Mae West
I'm so proud of her a big sassy girl the first to Do Things Her Way !
she was a true lady and when i was a young kid she was a movie legend and she always looked so young even in her eighties she looked like a woman in her fifties. she saved Paramount studios and the people loved her for being herself. she gave them dreams and you could be sexual in private in a time you couldnt speak about it.
mae west was fabulous I love her there will never be another one like her
Mae would agree with you!
The greatest voice of all time.
She is my hero. Funny , curvy, beautiful woman. When she lived in New York she won prizes for Latin American, Jazz dancing and belly dancing . She wanted to be a dancer first when she came to Hollywood. But discovered a love of comedy and acting.
She looked stunning here!
One of the Greatest ever . RIP 💞 Mae West 💕
I always loved the way she walked...
The very template for the "Blonde Bombshell". Without Mae there could be no others, and no one _ever_ did it better.
Admired Mae West since I was a teenager after seeing her movies for the first time.
Classy, Sexy, Funny & SMART. Awesome !!!
absolute great gal. I love every one of her movies and such a long career.
I love it how she calls everyone honey 😆
I call everyone Hun and I got it from her. She was so cool before anyone understood what cool was. Her mind and wit were beyond. I love her and we will miss her spirit greatly ❤️🔥
Those brandy glasses are the 💣
I love the decor in this scene.
Mae West walks with a feminine strut.
I heard the walk was because she wore huge platform shoes, almost like stilts, because she wanted to look taller.
She was a little thing and wore platform shoes with high heels. Gave her that great sexy walk!
I love her confidence! I want to be like her she is amazing.
what a great dress! timeless taste.
Mae West was definitely one of a kind and could never ever be replaced what a beautiful lady she was I so enjoy watching her old movies .
Why don't you come up and see me sometime . 💕☮️💐💐💐
Love May West
50 YEARS OLD YET STILL A TURN ON ,BUT WITH CLASS AND FOR TODAY,S WOMEN WATCH AND LEARN BECAUSE SCHOOLS NOT OUT NOR OVER.
That walk of hers is everything really
She was so awesome❤ Very intelligent as well as beautiful!
Would you believe she was 50 years old.
yola2345 What is 50 supposed to look like?
+yola2345 She look gorgeous!
+comalaism slightly sagging jowls, neck skin getting much thinner, middle section thickening, crows feet, breasts a few inches lower. About like that.
+Demolitionman78 But yout can deny that she looks very sexy!
+Carlos Jorge Stöckel stumpy ass hott,ya'll....!!
Just a Beautiful, classy, tuff actress! I loved her voice and how she came off with those brutal honest sayings!
"My dresses have to be tight enough to show that I'm a woman and loose enough to show that I'm a lady." Mae West to a set dressmaker??!! Absolutely fabulous. A real class act.!
Thank you!
CLASSY LADY
MAY SHE REST IN PEACE
She is very beautiful here sometimes she wasn't in her movies but she is stunning here !
Mae came over to London in 1948 to star in Diamond Lil at the Prince of Wales Theatre. While there she posed for the society photographer, Anthony Beauchamp. Her photograph appears on p.56 of his book "Focus on Fame". I have the original negative.
I have a picture of her in her 20's. Much slimmer then and her portrait...pure eroticism.
MAE LOOKS GOOD HERE FOR 50 YEARS OF AGE....
Love Mae West
Go mae go. She was so cool.
Mae West had a big personality n was a riot. Oh n the way she walked with that swagger. Mae will always be an icon.
Compare the classy Mae West with today's female "comedians". You're right. There is no comparison.