Come Up and See Me Sometime: Stories

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July 27, 1954: West opens her muscleman nightclub act in Las Vegas; she performs the routine until 1959. The new line-up of the band recorded The Best Years of Our Lives album in November–December 1974 at Abbey Road Studios in London. On a day in November, Harley arrived at the studio and played the band the original slow blues version of the song for them to rehearse. [13] Harley recalled to Uncut in 2012: "It was a little dirgy, slower and a little pedestrian, very on the beat". [12]

c.1901: West makes her show business debut as Baby Mae in an amateur evening competition at the Royal Theater; she wins a contest with her rendition of “Moving Day.”Pierpont: She had grown up watching drag queens, throughout vaudeville, she played on bills with them, she played with the great Bert Savoy. Florence Taaffe used the phrase attributively in an article entitled Famous Women March in Review in Tableaux at the Institute of Arts, published in The Minneapolis Tribune (Minneapolis, Minnesota) of Saturday 4 th November 1933—she gave an account of the annual meeting of the Friends of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, which had taken place the previous day (the French novelist Amandine-Aurore Lucille Dupin (1804-76) wrote under the pseudonym of George Sand): Pierpont: One of the lines I love, she's comforting some woman who has been undone by a married man and she says... West: Men's all alike, married or single. Mae West: Dirty Blonde is the first major documentary film to explore Mae West’s life and career as she “climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong” to become a writer, performer and subversive agitator for social change. West achieved great acclaim in every entertainment medium that existed during her lifetime, spanning eight decades of the 20 th century. A full-time actress at seven, a vaudevillian at 14, a dancing sensation at 25, a Broadway playwright at 33, a silver screen ingénue at 40, a Vegas nightclub act at 62, a recording artist at 73, a camp icon at 85 – West left no format unconquered. She possessed creative and economic powers unheard of for a female entertainer in the 1930s and still rare today. Though she was a comedian, West grappled with some of the more complex social issues of the 20th century, including race and class tensions, and imbued even her most salacious plotlines with commentary about gender conformity, societal restrictions and what she perceived as moral hypocrisy. October 1959: West is interviewed by Charles Collingwood about her autobiography for “Person to Person”: the show is considered too controversial for broadcast and is never aired.

October 4, 1918: SOMETIME opens at the Shubert Theater with West as a chorus girl; she introduces the shimmy dance to Broadway; the show closes in July 1919.Chauncey: She actually went into a bunch of Greenwich Village speakeasies where the queer set hung out and recruited 40 or 50 queens to come be a part of her show. A city mission is located next door to the bar. Its young director, Captain Cummings, is in reality an undercover Federal agent working to infiltrate and expose the illegal activities in the bar. Gus suspects nothing; he worries only that Cummings will reform his bar and scare away his customers. West: So I said to my lawyer, I says, 'I'm gonna call it 'Sex'.' He said, 'Oh, my God, if we only dare.'

a b c Kutner, Jon; Leigh, Spencer (2005). 1000 UK Number One Hits. Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-1-84449-283-1. It's an amazing tactic to say, look, these are the kind of men I've had, and I've had them and I remember them in this way. Watts: All along the road, she's pushing, pushing, pushing, and I think to some degree she likes the battle. Official Scottish Singles Sales Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 5 December 2018. She had two big blotches of red paint on her face, and they must've been telling her dirty stories because she'd laugh, you know what I mean, see?To her British lover about to climb in bed with 80-something Mae: She said that she hoped soon to be able to say what Paul Revere said — 'The British are coming'. This was the last one-liner Mae ever uttered on film. Hamilton: People who would never have gone to her play 'Sex,' respectable people, they'll go to this play because it makes them feel sophisticated without making them uneasy. Come up and see me sometime,” was used in ads for both “She Done Him Wrong” and “I’m No Angel,” another Mae West-Cary Grant collaboration from 1933. In the latter film, the quote took on its now-popular wording (consistent with the advertising). Von Teese: She always acted like she had lots of men around but I think that privately, I think there were certain men that really got her.