Word: maes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jenny Lamour (French). Winner of the Grand Award at the 1947 Venice Film Festival. A whodunit about vaudeville people. Excellent performances by Louis Jouvet, Bernard Blier and the notably attractive Suzy Delair, who suggests a Mae West who really means it. First-rate directing by Henri-Georges Clouzot. The best movie treatment of show business since E. A. Dupont's monumental Variety...
...Manchester Guardian sometimes stoops, but always from an Olympian height. A Guardian critic last week reviewed Mae West, who is playing in London in her bawdy, gaudy old Diamond Lil, found the play "one of these perverse and unpredictable successes" and Mae a "Junoesque lady [who] leered out asthmatic innuendoes in scene after scene of ineffable twaddle." On the whole, he liked it-but he was not to be taken in by the plot. "Some of it," he observed, "one seems to have seen before in a film...
...Mae West, exhibiting herself in person to England for the first time, went a twinkling tribute from the usually decorous Manchester Guardian. "It was surely a strange trick of fortune that made Mae West famous as a film star," observed the Guardian after a long, appreciative look, "for it is hard to imagine an actress less suited to one dimension...
...Mae West sailed off to London with a classy new ensemble encasing her old one. Her mission: to let Britons in on Diamond Lit, 19 years after its appearance on Broadway...
They were the only survivors. In the floating wreckage, dotted with empty Mae Wests, abandoned flight jackets and gaudy, souvenir kimonos, five bodies were recovered, a sixth sank just as the Hermes came alongside. George Atcheson was among the four passengers and crewmen still missing...