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...Mae West...
...Mae West did not invent sex. She just saw the humor in it, and probably no one before or since has had more fun on what she called the "linen battlefield." "I kid sex," she said. "I take it out into the open and laugh at it. I'm a healthy influence." And, as usual, she was right. Sex goddesses have come and gone and will remain so long as people go to the movies. But only Mae West was able to make a whole career out of the leer and the wink. Her voluptuous figure was as familiar...
MARK FOR DEPRAVITY, DULLNESS, said a New York Herald Tribune headline. The New York City authorities considered the play's contents very carefully. After it had run nearly a year, and after 700 policemen and seven assistant district attornies had viewed it, the show was raided and Mae went to jail for eight days. Every actress should have so much free publicity; before long Mae had another hit in her play Diamond Lil, which ran nine months on Broadway...
Hollywood called in 1932, and Mae headed West, where she remained for the rest of her life. She Done Him Wrong (1933) was her first big picture, and audiences were enchanted by her earthy humor and the total lack of the hypocrisy that was convention in most other films of the time. As an established playwright, she was allowed to write her own dialogue, and thus began the long list of famous Westian one-liners. "Haven't you ever met a man who could make you happy?" Co-Star Cary Grant asks her. "Sure," she replies. "Lots of times...
...earliest form, Resurrection was the story of Christ returned to earth as a woman. It was Ellen Burstyn who urged the film into the direction it ultimately took. She brings to the role her customary intelligence, passion and a humanizing sense of humor. Edna Mae is just as surprised and troubled by her healing gift as her neighbors are; and Burstyn helps the moviegoer share in this discovery. She may not walk on water, but she still performs a miracle of sorts: turning this ambitious, split-level movie into a personal triumph...