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Belle of the Nineties (Paramount). When almost overnight Mae West became an immensely profitable symbol of screen naughtiness by padding her hips and uttering double-entendres without moving her upper lip, Paramount officials decided that she knew what she was doing. They gave her a free hand with her pictures, under the congenial supervision of Producer William Le Baron. The completion of her third picture last June coincided precisely with the peak of cinema reform agitation by the Legion of Decency. The Hays office called its original title, It Ain't No Sin, "dangerous." The New York State Censors...
While in this piece Mae West is billed merely as star and sole author, it is generally understood that she did the casting, passed on the costumes and is responsible for everything except the sound patents. She is Ruby Carter, an entertainer of the mauve decade, the idol of St. Louis and of Tiger Kid (Roger Pryor). Tiger Kid is a prizefighter until his manager frames a telephone call which makes the Tiger think Ruby is unfaithful. Abandoned by the Kid, she goes to work at the "Sensation House" in New Orleans where Ace Lamont (John Miljan) seizes...
...studied stenography and shorthand so as to have a foundation for other professions in case she was a failure in the film business. She studied cutting and carried script for her father. Lately she has been taking thyroid treatments and has lost 25 lb. Paramount was pleased but Mae West told her to gain weight for Belle of the Nineties. She likes to play heavies. She says that anyone can be an ingenue but to be a menace takes action. She does a lot of swimming at the Beach Club in Santa Monica and plays a little tennis. She gives...
Mary Louise Peck's impersonation of the Maid of Orleans was part of a pageant given last fortnight at semiswank Atlantic Beach Club on Long Island. Most of them scantily clad to represent such characters as Messalina, Mae West and Pocahontas, the performers included Swimmer Helen Meany, a semi-nude showgirl and that most formidable and ubiquitous of socialites. Mrs. S. Stanwood Menken. To dine and see the pageant 251 persons had bought tickets at $7.50 each and, to give the spectacle an air of righteous charity, the profits, if any, were to go to a local fire department...
...thought the matter over very seriously. There is a great deal of competition among lawyers and it is hard work. My wife is interested in acting and I like the climate of California. I found acting much more pleasant than law." After being considered as a leading man for Mae West in She Done Him Wrong, he was given minor parts in The Woman Accused, Murders in the Zoo, Under the Tonto Rim and Little Women. Count Alexei in The Scarlet Empress is his first important role...