it's kat! · @kathimmel
1531 followers · 14964 posts · Server mstdn.socialmae 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.
#maeWest #williamJones #film #boxing #hollywood #cinema #illustration #portrait
#Portrait #Illustration #cinema #hollywood #boxing #Film #williamjones #MaeWest
it's kat! · @kathimmel
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#art #history: she needs no introduction, but i would like to add an anecdote or two about the indelible mae west (born #otd 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.
#maeWest #cinema #playwright #LGBTQ #actor #brooklyn
#brooklyn #actor #lgbtq #Playwright #cinema #MaeWest #otd #History #Art
TrippingBallsThroughHistory · @TrippingBallsThroughHistory
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In the #1920s the momentum for #LGBTQ+ rights crested around 1927, & the bigoted blowback ascended.
When #MaeWest 's play "The #Drag" 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 #canceled and West served 10 days in jail.
3 minute #shortFilm using 50+ #PublicDomain sources.
#CancelCulture #PublicDomain #shortfilm #canceled #drag #MaeWest #lgbtq #1920s
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
CarveHerName · @CarveHerName
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#OnThisDay, 19 Apr 1927, Mae West is convicted on obscenity charges for her play 'sex', and started a 10 day jail sentence.
#WomenInHistory #ReclaimTheFrame #LiteraryWomen #MaeWest #Histodons
#histodons #MaeWest #literarywomen #ReclaimTheFrame #womeninhistory #onthisday
CarveHerName · @CarveHerName
2557 followers · 517 posts · Server mstdn.social#OnThisDay, 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
Alt Film Guide · @altfilmguide
34 followers · 28 posts · Server mstdn.social#RaquelWelch reminiscing about her #MyraBreckenridge costar #MaeWest
"She's got a lot of chutzpah and she's completely bonkers."
https://www.altfg.com/film/raquel-welch-myra-breckenridge/
#GoreVidal's satirical novel is excellent. #MichaelSarne's 1970 #movie version was a critical & #boxoffice cataclysm.
#classicmovies #Movies #adaptation #cinema #novel #boxoffice #movie #michaelsarne #gorevidal #MaeWest #myrabreckenridge #RaquelWelch
Alt Film Guide · @altfilmguide
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#RIP #RaquelWelch (1940–2023)
Briefly – but memorably – a #film star in the mid-'60s, displaying her looks/physique in #movies like ONE MILLION YEARS B.C., FANTASTIC VOYAGE, & the disastrous #MyraBreckenridge, in which she's the sultry result of a sex-change op. (She and costar #MaeWest didn't get along at all.)
At her best in #JamesIvory's underrated #TheWildParty (1975), a precursor to last year's #Babylon.
Welch's orgiastic dance at her 1920s #Hollywood party is 1 of #cinema's highlights.
#cinema #hollywood #babylon #thewildparty #jamesivory #MaeWest #myrabreckenridge #Movies #Film #RaquelWelch #RIP
Dieter Vallois · @DieterBearsAll
23 followers · 59 posts · Server mastodon.lol@LeRoyWesterling @mikewursta good grief!!! Allow me to get all #MaeWest on you….. but “is that a gun in your pocket or are your just glad to see me?”
it's kat! · @kathimmel
585 followers · 4322 posts · Server mstdn.sociali'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.
#beauty #maeWest #misogyny #feminism
#feminism #misogyny #MaeWest #beauty
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?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAUKENIyB2k
('next, next' - alice cooper, 1978)
#maeWest #aliceCooper #soundtrack #cinema #film
#Film #cinema #Soundtrack #alicecooper #MaeWest
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as6Iv5R1G0M
#cinema #maeWest #film #ringoStarr #tonyCurtis
#tonycurtis #ringostarr #Film #MaeWest #cinema
Adara Astin · @AdaraAstin
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“Too much of a good thing can be wonderful."
Mae West
#Quote #Quotation #QuoteOfTheDay #QOTD #MaeWest #MaeWestQuote #CaryGrant
#quote #Quotation #QuoteOfTheDay #QOTD #MaeWest #MaeWestQuote #CaryGrant
MusiqueNow :newpride: · @MusiqueNow
355 followers · 11187 posts · Server todon.euhttps://invidious.namazso.eu/watch?v=6dgYqkNCZ1Y
#film #CaryGrant :newpride: :newpride: :newpride:
#SheDoneHimWrong with
#MaeWest
#film #carygrant #SheDoneHimWrong #MaeWest