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Post by mstreepsucks on Apr 21, 2021 18:22:59 GMT
Mae West? Or was she in at least one that was good in your opinion?
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Post by kijii on Apr 21, 2021 18:34:01 GMT
Mae West? Or was she in at least one that was good in your opinion? None. Never.
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Post by Isapop on Apr 21, 2021 18:36:31 GMT
Mae West? Or was she in at least one that was good in your opinion? None. Never. Not none never?
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Post by mstreepsucks on Apr 21, 2021 18:43:03 GMT
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Post by mikef6 on Apr 21, 2021 21:23:56 GMT
Yes, "She Done Him Wrong." Also, "My Little Chickadee."
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Post by politicidal on Apr 21, 2021 22:15:54 GMT
Never saw a single one of her movies.
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Post by vegalyra on Apr 22, 2021 14:40:48 GMT
I saw She Done Him Wrong as part of a film history class I took while an undergrad. It was pretty good.
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Post by TheOriginalPinky on Apr 22, 2021 17:57:22 GMT
Myra Breckenridge.
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Post by MCDemuth on Apr 22, 2021 18:01:27 GMT
Poor Mae West, everyone's picking on her...
Hey, she must have been something special for... People to name their life jackets after her... and to have that hilarious request made of her in the movie "The Green Mile".
Give the lady a break.
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Post by teleadm on Apr 24, 2021 22:27:29 GMT
Not sure if she did any great movies, what she was was a personality who dared to stick out, bending the rules of what was once considered taboo. She never said "Come Up and See me sometime" but “Why don’t you come up some time and see me". :format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-703136-1345925931-6910.jpeg.jpg) |
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Post by petrolino on Apr 25, 2021 0:49:38 GMT
My favourite is Wesley Ruggles' 'I'm No Angel' (1933).
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Post by louise on Sept 3, 2021 6:37:03 GMT
She Done Him Wrong is fun. Also I’m no Angel.
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Post by phantomparticle on Sept 3, 2021 11:30:44 GMT
I wouldn't say West made any great movies, but those she did were entertaining.
I really like her. She was a 40 year old, buxom woman who shocked audiences with a series of hilarious sexual innuendos in an era when MGM had to fight like hell just to keep the word "damn" in Gone With the Wind.
She is at her best in I'm No Angel where she sings, "They Call Me Sister Honky Tonk" and She Done Him Wrong where she warbles "I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone?" that must have must have sent censors to intensive care.
West is one of the principal reasons why Hollywood adopted the Hays Code.
Like Norma Desmond, she was unable to let go of her glory days and spent the last few decades of her life mostly hidden away, only to surface for two disastrous movies that tarnished her image forever. In her prime, however, she was a force to reckon with.
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Post by Isapop on Sept 3, 2021 14:56:04 GMT
Well I guess you can't argue with that.
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Post by movielover on Sept 3, 2021 15:22:43 GMT
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Post by marianne48 on Sept 3, 2021 17:56:51 GMT
I like Mae West, but this album ranks right down there with Ethel Merman's disco album.
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Post by novastar6 on Sept 3, 2021 18:36:19 GMT
Never seen any of her movies, but I love her and I love her style. I read one of her plays, she was a force to be reckoned with in her day, she wrote her own plays, which she would get arrested for performing for obscenity, and just go back and do it again. She had a black boyfriend when it was a very unpopular thing to do and bought out the building she was living in because it wouldn't allow blacks in. She was an early defender of the gay community, though today people might say she was mistaken, when she'd say homosexual men were just women born in a man's body, so when people would beat up on gays they were beating up on women. Given her attitude from about 100 years ago, she ought to be a hero with most groups today.
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