it's kat! · @kathimmel
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mae refused to conform to the rules of racist segregation that her hollywood apartment building tried to impose upon her & she kicked up a right fuss when her dear friend, the pugilist william jones, was refused entry. rumour was that she helped the ravenswood management out of a tight financial spot, so was able to scrap the ban on non-white visitors.

#Portrait #Illustration #cinema #hollywood #boxing #Film #williamjones #MaeWest

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it's kat! · @kathimmel
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: she needs no introduction, but i would like to add an anecdote or two about the indelible mae west (born in 1893).

she was an actress, yes, but she was also a writer - & she caused a bit of a scandal in 1927 with her play, 'the drag (a homosexual comedy in three acts)', about a closeted gay socialite, for which she cast gay actors.

#brooklyn #actor #lgbtq #Playwright #cinema #MaeWest #otd #History #Art

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In the the momentum for + rights crested around 1927, & the bigoted blowback ascended.

When 's play "The " was opened in New Jersey, with representations of LGBTQ+ people as regular Not shameful people, the play, its producers and performers, and the theaters involved were persecuted by police and authorities until the play was and West served 10 days in jail.

3 minute using 50+ sources.

archive.org/details/1927-the-d

#CancelCulture #PublicDomain #shortfilm #canceled #drag #MaeWest #lgbtq #1920s

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MikeDunnAuthor · @MikeDunnAuthor
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Today in Labor History April 19, 1927: The authorities sentenced Hollywood star Mae West to 10 days in jail for obscenity, for her play, “Sex.”

#workingclass #LaborHistory #MaeWest #hollywood #sex

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CarveHerName · @CarveHerName
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, 19 Apr 1927, Mae West is convicted on obscenity charges for her play 'sex', and started a 10 day jail sentence.

#histodons #MaeWest #literarywomen #ReclaimTheFrame #womeninhistory #onthisday

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CarveHerName · @CarveHerName
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, 19 Apr 1927, Mae West is convicted on obscenity charges for her play 'sex', and started a 10 day jail sentence.

#MaeWest #literarywomen #ReclaimTheFrame #womeninhistory #onthisday

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Alt Film Guide · @altfilmguide
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reminiscing about her costar

"She's got a lot of chutzpah and she's completely bonkers."

altfg.com/film/raquel-welch-my

's satirical novel is excellent. 's 1970 version was a critical & cataclysm.

#classicmovies #Movies #adaptation #cinema #novel #boxoffice #movie #michaelsarne #gorevidal #MaeWest #myrabreckenridge #RaquelWelch

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Alt Film Guide · @altfilmguide
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(1940–2023)

Briefly – but memorably – a star in the mid-'60s, displaying her looks/physique in like ONE MILLION YEARS B.C., FANTASTIC VOYAGE, & the disastrous , in which she's the sultry result of a sex-change op. (She and costar didn't get along at all.)

At her best in 's underrated (1975), a precursor to last year's .

Welch's orgiastic dance at her 1920s party is 1 of 's highlights.

#cinema #hollywood #babylon #thewildparty #jamesivory #MaeWest #myrabreckenridge #Movies #Film #RaquelWelch #RIP

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Dieter Vallois · @DieterBearsAll
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@LeRoyWesterling @mikewursta good grief!!! Allow me to get all on you….. but “is that a gun in your pocket or are your just glad to see me?”

#MaeWest

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it's kat! · @kathimmel
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i'm watching a documentary (narrated by dom deluise) about mae west & every talking head so far (all of whom are male), apart from dom (who adored mae), has made disparaging remarks about mae's physical appearance & i'm about to pop a major artery. fuck you fucks, you fuckers.

#feminism #misogyny #MaeWest #beauty

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it's kat! · @kathimmel
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i loved 'sextette'. it is soooo awful (& camp & funny). are we sure that alice cooper wasn't involved somehow in the creation of timothee chalamet?
youtube.com/watch?v=EAUKENIyB2
('next, next' - alice cooper, 1978)

#Film #cinema #Soundtrack #alicecooper #MaeWest

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it's kat! · @kathimmel
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i've got an evening to myself & i think i'm gonna' watch an 85-year-old mae west in 'sextette'. it'll be lovely to see her take charge of ringo starr, keith moon, timothy dalton, tony curtis & alice cooper.
youtube.com/watch?v=as6Iv5R1G0

#tonycurtis #ringostarr #Film #MaeWest #cinema

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