Mae West: And The Men Who Knew Her | The Hollywood Collection

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  • @frenchartantiquesparis424
    @frenchartantiquesparis424 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1570

    They forgot to mention WHY Ms West bought that huge Hollywood Hotel/ Apartment complex. She was dating a African -American Boxer and the concierge downstairs refused to let him into the hotel to see her... so SHE BOUGHT THE PLACE. She was ahead of the times.

    • @paulinarichert283
      @paulinarichert283 3 ปีที่แล้ว +129

      I read her biography - she didn't buy this apartment complex. People thought she did it but it is true that she defended her African American friend.

    • @jasonmccallop6605
      @jasonmccallop6605 2 ปีที่แล้ว +77

      Certain white folks want you to forget that

    • @miwfreak4312
      @miwfreak4312 2 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      She's a badass!

    • @jeandixson5610
      @jeandixson5610 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      Bravo

    • @scorpiouknow
      @scorpiouknow 2 ปีที่แล้ว +134

      How convenient to leave out William Jones, Gorilla Jones. Interesting, they knew each other for 50 years, she employed him as her bodyguard and employed his mother, and not as a maid. Not to mention how he was a devoted friend to her as she was to him, she left him real estate among other things. There's so much history purposely left out or destroyed, just to eliminate undesirable. America's real good for that. I bet she was a sweetheart, I wish I had known her.

  • @blaze3884
    @blaze3884 2 ปีที่แล้ว +111

    I remember one interview she did with someone, they asked why she had a mirror over her bed. She said "So I can see how I'm doin". Gotta luv this woman!

    • @AS-wj1du
      @AS-wj1du 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cheeky. Bed over mirror, only hold an umbrella over your head, men as pets

  • @eunicestone838
    @eunicestone838 3 ปีที่แล้ว +314

    My daddy described her as a "broad" I had never heard that term and asked him to explain. He told me a tough woman who wasn't afraid to go after what she wanted! So at 9 years old I told everyone that would listen that I was going to be a "broad" when I grew up. Omg. Lol

    • @roderickfernandez5382
      @roderickfernandez5382 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Your daddy was right smart man she was abroad and I don't mean traveling to a foreign country

    • @gabriellew.1164
      @gabriellew.1164 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      This was the best comment 🤣 so far!!!

    • @paolamura3497
      @paolamura3497 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Hilarious!!!

    • @sheilacalkins4329
      @sheilacalkins4329 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      A!a!!aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa​@@paolamura3497

    • @Loveraptors101
      @Loveraptors101 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Thats funny!,😂❤😂😅

  • @Blech-h9z
    @Blech-h9z ปีที่แล้ว +272

    She was beautiful, inside and out, witty, intelligent, and the fact that she was in her 40s at the height of her fame, when other women were "retired", says so much. We owe her so much.

    • @Chauncey250
      @Chauncey250 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I hate the fact these men talking on het biography say she wasn't the most beautiful ,they are so full of it ! Mae west was a hell of a gal !!!!! Fyi she grew up in greenpoint in brooklyn a place i was born and raised as she did , and I'm so proud of that ,I used to act like her around my friends in brooklyn in school lol til this day I do a gd impersonation of the late great mae west

    • @victorblock3421
      @victorblock3421 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@Chauncey250 She wasn't classically pretty. She learned how to used her brain and had all men interested in her. I'd go into a time machine to meet her if possible. She was a full package but if I just want beauty, she'd be far down my list.

    • @daffyduck7336
      @daffyduck7336 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      And what "they" forgot was "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"!!!!!😮

    • @SP-bg8on
      @SP-bg8on 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Chauncey250I agree. She was gorgeous

    • @dorotheaprobst862
      @dorotheaprobst862 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      For sure

  • @sharonallison9922
    @sharonallison9922 ปีที่แล้ว +126

    HER FIGURE WAS PERFECT AND HER BEAUTY WAS TIMELESS......❤

    • @janetcw9808
      @janetcw9808 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ABSOLUTELY!

    • @bbrown333
      @bbrown333 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Not to our dear Bob Osborne.

    • @stutzbearcat5624
      @stutzbearcat5624 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm WITH YOU!!
      Oh if I had a time machine ... !!!

    • @taffykins2745
      @taffykins2745 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You're funny! She was fat and short! We loved who she was anyway! In fact she faught that stigma her whole life. Check it out, my friend

    • @kevinreily2529
      @kevinreily2529 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@janetcw9808

  • @grammyjsg
    @grammyjsg 2 ปีที่แล้ว +418

    Never let a man hold anything over your head unless it's an umbrella.
    That's one of the best lines I've ever heard...
    I'll never forget that one.
    FABULOUS!!!

  • @Asigedge
    @Asigedge 3 ปีที่แล้ว +647

    "She wasnt pretty or had a nice figure" all this coming from a man dressed like Stuart from MADTV. Mae was perfection

    • @theatergeek82
      @theatergeek82 2 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      I know I was like "well some of you guys aren't exactly prizes yourselves."

    • @awesomeunicorn3280
      @awesomeunicorn3280 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Ikr the nerrve

    • @evanatbri-s13
      @evanatbri-s13 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      He didn't say anything that wasn't true. We can all see it here.

    • @servraghgiorsal7382
      @servraghgiorsal7382 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Oooooh! That's a good one!!

    • @Maria-dk2fv
      @Maria-dk2fv 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      What is figure? Like a bottle?

  • @christineparis5607
    @christineparis5607 ปีที่แล้ว +59

    My moms family moved to California from Texas during the depression (like almost everyone else!) and they lived for awhile in Los Angeles and kids got extra work while filming was going on. There were hundreds of films, shorts, news reels, etc., being made ALL the time, so kids worked as extras for ice cream or a couple of dollars, which was huge for them...
    My great aunts were actresses for Universal Studios, then married minor producers and wrote music used in a lot of shorts...especially for Laurel and Hardy.... I have great photos of them in 20s bathing suits at Santa Monica pier and they all had cottages on the beach. I would have loved to have lived there then!! In the early 90s, we went out to Los Angeles so my husband could work as a sound engineer. I did extra work and regular gigs on tv shows just because I wanted celebrate the lives of the women in my family who worked hard, earned their own money and lived how they wanted, free and exciting....

  • @ruairilocke9898
    @ruairilocke9898 3 ปีที่แล้ว +292

    Many of todays actresses are interchangeable in looks, Mae West could never be mistaken for anyone else.

    • @Darrigrande
      @Darrigrande 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Mae West was an original and a unique person. She was not a clone of somebody.

    • @kfl611
      @kfl611 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I read one time, that of course she had a few face lifts or two, but she did them right, as always looked like herself. She was sure a 'one of a kind' and yes there will never be another like her.

  • @SJ-ni6iy
    @SJ-ni6iy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    People are upset because a lot of people considered her average looking. I think it makes her even better! She was an average looking woman who was able to use what she had on the inside to become one of the most desirable women on the planet. She beat all the odds and every stereotype, in a time where this was unheard of. She is an inspiration for anyone!

  • @sixsevenstv446
    @sixsevenstv446 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Mae West is my boyfriend's grandpa's sister. He remember sitting on her lap when he was little she was very old. He said I never told you really she was known for you know risque stuff, and I said listen she was ahead of her time she said what she wanted to say and was who she was and did what she wanted to do and I said that should be commended especially back then when everybody was so hush-hush, be proud! ❤️

  • @alexcampana2889
    @alexcampana2889 2 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    Omg I can’t believe they said she was 55 when she went to London, she looked so young!! Fuck these men saying she was unattractive, she was a beautiful woman until the end ❤

    • @MitchClement-il6iq
      @MitchClement-il6iq 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Her interview with dick cavett is awesome! Was 82 and still smart as ever.

    • @evelynfuller2086
      @evelynfuller2086 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Amen 🙏

  • @proudcynophile1901
    @proudcynophile1901 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1126

    Back in the 70s Jet Magazine published an article on Mae West. She was a Civil Rights advocate and she fought for equality for black actors in Hollywood back when it took grande cojones to do that!

    • @candimcirish
      @candimcirish 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Good for her! ♥️

    • @sophiabrown9423
      @sophiabrown9423 5 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      I knew a lady who worked for her as her maid but they were also good friends she said Mae was real cool and did really talk like that and she had a few black lovers.❤❤

    • @CarlaCarter549
      @CarlaCarter549 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      I think big cojones sums her up pretty well.

    • @annnee6818
      @annnee6818 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      She sure had some of the grandest cojones in da biznaz...😆

    • @petebest22
      @petebest22 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Lovely lady, wish I know her ☺

  • @taffykins2745
    @taffykins2745 ปีที่แล้ว +178

    My favorite Mae West quote is:
    "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."

    • @janjbowman
      @janjbowman 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      She was not perfection even though during an interview I was watching she claimed all actors and actresses were GODS and GODESSES… or really people that think these things are full of shit . Many modern actors think they are GODS and Goddeses .NO THEY ARE NOT THEY ARE NO BETTER THAN THE REST LF US . I HATE AND DESPISE ARROGANCE ..

    • @taffykins2745
      @taffykins2745 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@janjbowman Hahahaha! Like you said, Mae called them out! They were so full of themselves! ....and still are! Lol! 😄

    • @TargttdGma
      @TargttdGma 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yeah yeah ... the big tv lie ... only live once. Satan wants the masses to consider this life in his temporary kingdom is "all there is". Nope. We're here to prove we deserve Eternity FREE of evils.

    • @TargttdGma
      @TargttdGma 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@janjbowmanA bigger frawd than most can imagine. Folks srldom See what they look at. "Charlie" Chaplain is another piece of work. The Club has requirements, accommodating the Big wealthy ones who created the enterTrainment 'industry'.

    • @taffykins2745
      @taffykins2745 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@TargttdGma it's a joke and part of the character she made up. Why so heavy?

  • @Ladybhive71
    @Ladybhive71 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    "When im good I'm very good but when bad i'm better"❤

  • @jeffneis553
    @jeffneis553 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    Thanks to Mae for bringing us Cary Grant and others, she was a show business genius and was responsible for keeping Paramount open and having it make money. She was terrific and there will never be another like her. RIP Mae you are missed.

  • @SavvyMama
    @SavvyMama 5 ปีที่แล้ว +956

    A woman far ahead of her time! Brilliant & wrote her own jokes and became a bigger star after 35! Now that's a real star!

    • @ottomechanic1370
      @ottomechanic1370 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      I totally agree with you. Invented a unique classic style, which women could study from, with all do respects, carefully crafted like she performed for her audience. Thank you.

    • @msr1116
      @msr1116 4 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      She wrote some of the wittiest (and truest ! ) lines and comebacks that have lasted for many decades now.

    • @ottomechanic1370
      @ottomechanic1370 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Wow! Thank you kindly for the feedback. Sounds like you have done some research on Mae West. She would be a fastinating Hollywood personality to learn more about.

    • @allenwhite7465
      @allenwhite7465 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      CV CVg

    • @sherryfierro8893
      @sherryfierro8893 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Pl000ll00

  • @AngeliqueGia
    @AngeliqueGia 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1021

    They keep commenting about her being big or large. She was very voluptuous, tough, and feminine. She was everything!

    • @jonnyq680
      @jonnyq680 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Ms. West was my fantasy woman. My Wife is my Dream Woman. She is Everything. The small, catty ones are ignorant of what a real woman is and are lesser creatures for it...

    • @teresafaulkner5199
      @teresafaulkner5199 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jonnyq680 ggvvvv:vvgvvvvvvvvv:vvvvvvvvvgvv:vgvggvgvgvgvvvvv:vvgvgvvvgvvvggv:vgvg:vvvvv:vvggggv¹

    • @jonnyq680
      @jonnyq680 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @@teresafaulkner5199 miss, i'm just an old country keyboard guy. I am unfamiliar with all this new-fangled tech code stuff the kids like so much. That and a HUGE Mae West fan.

    • @marjoriegarner5369
      @marjoriegarner5369 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Patricia Palmer what's Zaftig?

    • @jonnyq680
      @jonnyq680 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@teresafaulkner5199 You got it, lady.

  • @truckarttinbox9644
    @truckarttinbox9644 2 ปีที่แล้ว +672

    Watching this doc from a 2022 perspective is so freaking weird. All of these men are just taking every dig they can, from calling her unattractive or considering her desperate and "sad." She knew what she wanted and she knew the person she wanted to be. Her carrying that persona into her 80s wasn't sad, it was rebellion against people who want to see women in boxes. Really, the patriarchy runs deep. Runs deep.

    • @marbleblue5127
      @marbleblue5127 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Robert Osborne especially!

    • @BaronessErsatz
      @BaronessErsatz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Not so much with Rex Reed. He read her room better than most.

    • @madamedellaporte4214
      @madamedellaporte4214 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      She wasn't a classic beauty, no. If you saw her down the launderette without make-up and frills you probably would not look twice.

    • @ebybeehoney
      @ebybeehoney 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      I was thinking the same. She was amazing and strong!

    • @valeriemarxxx
      @valeriemarxxx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      At 52:10 “It was sad to see this terribly terribly old lady” 🙄
      Are you kidding me?! God forbid a beautiful legend like Mae in her later years gets to do what she loved most: entertain and have fun! She was phenomenally beautiful until her last breath. There’s nothing wrong with an older woman having a career. She loved being Mae West and she loved her audience. Shame on some of these bitter and sexist men for their comments. Not at all respectful in the slightest.

  • @barbaracastelli3725
    @barbaracastelli3725 3 ปีที่แล้ว +122

    Classy and intelligent woman. What I love about her the most is her self-esteem.

  • @carolharris4034
    @carolharris4034 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1077

    Mae West WAS a beautiful woman, and a master at self-promotion. She was WAY ahead of her time. She was charismatic.

    • @peggypeggy4137
      @peggypeggy4137 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      I love when she blows smoke in everyone's faces!

    • @peggypeggy4137
      @peggypeggy4137 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @Robert Gardea Don't worry, I won't!! I don't think she really smoked in real life.

    • @tamilugo3886
      @tamilugo3886 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Agreed that guys taste is all in his mouth ! He obviously knows nothing about beauty.

    • @gracekrothchild2907
      @gracekrothchild2907 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @@peggypeggy4137 YOU'RE right. Mae West never smoke,or drink. Mae West only smoked in her movies. That was her secret, for living so long...💕

    • @Darrigrande
      @Darrigrande 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      She was not only beautiful, but witty and smart!

  • @andrewforte3852
    @andrewforte3852 5 ปีที่แล้ว +150

    There is nothing more POWERFUL than a WOMAN determined to RISE!
    - Dorothy Dandridge

  • @jolenehauck7019
    @jolenehauck7019 4 ปีที่แล้ว +294

    The fact that they called her figure maternly is hysterical! She was gorgeous!

    • @40h66
      @40h66 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Exactly

    • @kelvinstewart7953
      @kelvinstewart7953 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      This is also a time when a full figured woman with curves wasn't viewed as sexy. Even in 2022, it is still a struggle for woman with curves to be seen as beautiful. I can only imagine what the struggle was back then. But yes, Mae West was gorgeous and definitely opened the door for women to embrace their sexuality and proud of it. It absolutely shows when a woman is confident in herself how amazing it is.

    • @corazoncubano5372
      @corazoncubano5372 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@kelvinstewart7953 I would say women with curves are in right now. If it wasn't so many women would not be spending large amounts of money to add artificial big breasts or big artificial butts to their bodies.

    • @unknown-lf6zx
      @unknown-lf6zx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I agree. I love her and she looked great

    • @thomashernandez8700
      @thomashernandez8700 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Almost no waist. And that's WITH a 1930s girdle. Matronly is correct!

  • @cyndjop
    @cyndjop 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    It's almost 100 yrs after her success. Guts and brains. One of a kind! The jealous critics in this interview who disrespected her in her senior years made me sick to my stomach.

  • @breannasosa-lopez2009
    @breannasosa-lopez2009 3 ปีที่แล้ว +668

    How can they call her matronly and plain? She was stunning, beautiful, bold, unapologetically witty! Her personality wasn't ALL that made her a sex symbol and an icon!!

    • @applesnicolle5144
      @applesnicolle5144 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Mae West was No beauty … more like a drag queen. Sad individual

    • @johnryan9626
      @johnryan9626 2 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Breanna I totally agree with you....

    • @johnryan9626
      @johnryan9626 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@applesnicolle5144 you must be looking in the mirror! I feel sorry for you....

    • @applesnicolle5144
      @applesnicolle5144 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@johnryan9626 / Mae West was attractive in a way as All ppl are attractive in their own way but by Hollywood standards she was matronly looking,
      even rather masculine.
      I’m not going to glorify a woman so unfeminine, so Not spiritual … she was all about
      depredating sexuality into the gutter.
      Yes funny at times but it wears thin…

    • @jadzia2098
      @jadzia2098 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Apples Nicolle : we all see situations and people differently, to me, it is how you perceive a person or situation and others will perceive it differently than you or me.

  • @kimwiliams5434
    @kimwiliams5434 4 ปีที่แล้ว +167

    There was Mae West...and then there was everyone else. She paved the way.

  • @ms.beatrixrabbit7313
    @ms.beatrixrabbit7313 5 ปีที่แล้ว +220

    I think she was beautiful , sexy, vivacious... I love her. I am BAFFLED by these men saying she was big or unattractive. Smh she was neither. She proved 2 women that we could own are sexuality. That was just so badass.

    • @joanodom2104
      @joanodom2104 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      She was MAE, and that was perfect! ❤

    • @lisamariealaniz7538
      @lisamariealaniz7538 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      💯 agree

    • @mannyhood6024
      @mannyhood6024 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      They were homosexual hunny BC nobody wants to fk a skeleton i assure u

    • @Rebecca.8590
      @Rebecca.8590 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      She sure was and they were just jealous or angry she was being herself and putting them down as that is what they did to women at the time.

    • @AS-wj1du
      @AS-wj1du 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      They were intimidated by her. She was strong

  • @Redhead77
    @Redhead77 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    I think it's adorable how Dom speaks of her, he's so smitten!

    • @DivaClariceWilliams
      @DivaClariceWilliams 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It's lovely to see. He was plainly thrilled to meet a living legend.

  • @vicval7895
    @vicval7895 5 ปีที่แล้ว +232

    The queen of one-liners, she will always be remembered.

  • @unexpectedvixen5685
    @unexpectedvixen5685 3 ปีที่แล้ว +722

    She shook the cage when women were expected to be seen and not heard. She definitely needs more recognition,in my opinion.

    • @spmoran4703
      @spmoran4703 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Amen. She showed the world that women had sexual feelings .

    • @applesnicolle5144
      @applesnicolle5144 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@spmoran4703 / Wrong! Women were more respected then than now… she made women sluts & notice MW never had a happy marriage

    • @olivia5419
      @olivia5419 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      agree

    • @olivia5419
      @olivia5419 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@applesnicolle5144 No, women were far more sexualized back then. True, women were required to dress in a way that pretty much concealed their entire body (even ankles) because men, especially back then, were too lustful.

    • @applesnicolle5144
      @applesnicolle5144 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@olivia5419 / I’ll take women covered up back then bc they were far more respected…
      ugh look at the No Class sluts of today’s Hollywood trash?
      Ugh look at mindless Kardashians

  • @corneliuswashington9218
    @corneliuswashington9218 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    She loved MEN..and MEN...LOVED HER BACK...and she did very well loving them...women can learn from her...

  • @dorabarkley6335
    @dorabarkley6335 5 ปีที่แล้ว +110

    Mae West was one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood - she was the whole package , beautiful, stacked and smart as a whip - definitely one of my favorites

  • @Marsena
    @Marsena 6 ปีที่แล้ว +169

    Dom was the perfect narrator for this documentary. He truly loved and respected her legacy.

    • @ashalon8729
      @ashalon8729 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I knew that was him! R.I.P Tiger

    • @thechloechronicles9688
      @thechloechronicles9688 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      he was one of the few actors she said almost stole a scene from her

    • @SJ-ni6iy
      @SJ-ni6iy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      He really did do a great job.

  • @ceeemonaee6579
    @ceeemonaee6579 4 ปีที่แล้ว +481

    the things they were saying about her pissed me off😞 she was beautiful and curvy and funny and stood for civil rights rip gorgeous mae 💙

    • @jonnyq680
      @jonnyq680 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Stop wasting your energy. We know what a REAL WOMAN is. They want to, but may never will...

    • @jmcharles6916
      @jmcharles6916 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      She's not pretty and no hot body but very talented. Reminds me of Lady Gaga

    • @missymarie2698
      @missymarie2698 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I misread that at the end- I thought it read, rip gorgeous male.

    • @Amc933
      @Amc933 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Yes, they are being nasty, really. And who is Rex Reed to talk???????

    • @stephaniebrooks8044
      @stephaniebrooks8044 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      A boss!!!

  • @royrodriguez1978
    @royrodriguez1978 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I admire Mae West for her spirit, it doesn't grow old. Our bodies do and she did her best to give it her best. God bless her! Thanks for doing it your way.

  • @taralang8854
    @taralang8854 7 ปีที่แล้ว +171

    this woman was so ahead of her time, she was independant, took no guff from anyone and she was strong,she supported the gay communities at a time when you did not, and she was a buisness woman and through it all she had class, she was i think one of the first divas i love mae west she was awesome.

  • @jscho8674
    @jscho8674 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1441

    "Some of the wildest men make the best pets."
    I love this woman.

    • @dorisleger4087
      @dorisleger4087 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      J Scho hallmart

    • @Melinda8162
      @Melinda8162 6 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      J Scho I hadn't heard this one before....among the many I did!! That was just fabulous!!

    • @TheMkgirl77
      @TheMkgirl77 6 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Brilliant line!

    • @turboturd7954
      @turboturd7954 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Works both ways!

    • @louisl9199
      @louisl9199 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Frank Sinatra story

  • @toniatchison3678
    @toniatchison3678 4 ปีที่แล้ว +215

    This lady was and always will be my favorite actress. She had balls enough to be what she wanted, regardless of what the censors decreed.

    • @lorettanericcio-bohlman567
      @lorettanericcio-bohlman567 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Or iron ovaries

    • @catspaw3092
      @catspaw3092 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      The way she treated men she did it with style & class & she behaved like a lady she would tell the feminists & the Karens today that treating men like dogs will get them nowhere.

    • @joanodom2104
      @joanodom2104 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@catspaw3092 I've been feminist since the seventies and none of my contemporaries despise men. We only resent misogynist men AND women. You apparently "educated" yourself on feminism by listening to Fox and/or Limbaugh. You should actually get to know a feminist. Women ought to raise other women up, in my opinion.

    • @lisamariealaniz7538
      @lisamariealaniz7538 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes 👍

    • @nurlindafsihotang49
      @nurlindafsihotang49 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@joanodom2104hear..hear...feminist of the 90s gen, i dont know how Fox and Limbaught became voice of feminism? Where the hell these misandrist comes from?

  • @Blonde_Somnambulist
    @Blonde_Somnambulist 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Born out of her time with the intelligence, charm ,guts and character, steadfastly determined to reframe the attitudes of the time. She made sex funny, challenged the hypocrisy of the male dominated entertainment industry, circumnavigated the hays code with the skillful mastery of her writing and succeeded where lesser souls would have failed. She was courageous, uncompromising and indomitable, whilst always maintaining an innate generosity towards others. She had the likeability factor, both men and women loved her. She knew how to get own way but did it with class , an honest woman on a mission, taking everyone on this amazing ride along with her . She paved the way for those such as Bette Davis who eventually won the battle with WB executives , to approve her own scripts and dictate pay terms . Mae created the conditions for Bette and other women who followed to be treated not just as commodities , but as serious artists . She was a gem 💎

  • @sandrapatterson2916
    @sandrapatterson2916 4 ปีที่แล้ว +558

    And here we are in 2020, still loving Mae West!

  • @carolynfranklin1447
    @carolynfranklin1447 4 ปีที่แล้ว +377

    She always had a good word for everyone, not a mean bone in her body. She was a class act.

    • @julianakleijn9254
      @julianakleijn9254 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Lol unless u were a girl in her chorus line or another girl in Hollywood lol. No problem loving Mae West but let’s not LIE about who and what she was

    • @akrenwinkle
      @akrenwinkle 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@julianakleijn9254 You mean the thing about her being the only blonde in a scene, and surrounding herself with women who weighed more than she did? True, and a lot of her publicity art was obviously photoshopped. (They called it airbrushing then.) But there are things that people don't want to know, or they like to exaggerate. The folklore about her buying The Ravenswood, for example.

    • @thirabx6954
      @thirabx6954 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Mae Is that a rocket in your pocket. What a Line. I love her

    • @seeleygirl6178
      @seeleygirl6178 ปีที่แล้ว

      Did you know her?

  • @dannij7081
    @dannij7081 4 ปีที่แล้ว +145

    "Some of the wildest men makes the BEST pets."-Yesss Mae was the Queen 👑.

  • @stephaniewood9608
    @stephaniewood9608 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    As a young teenager when I seen her. Ms. May. West was something else. She She spoke her mind And she did her walkI really enjoyed her

    • @taffykins2745
      @taffykins2745 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😄 sweet! How old are you now? I never saw her when she was so popular. I must be a lot younger than you! Tell me what it was like when you were a teen! I'd like to know! How fun! 👍😄

  • @dales.189
    @dales.189 4 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    In one movie she did, she was rifling through her arch nemesis's office desk drawer, and pulled out an object stating: 'Hmm, this man is so crooked he uses a corkscrew for a ruler.' Love it!

  • @Loomismusic
    @Loomismusic 6 ปีที่แล้ว +696

    I don't like how so many of the old dudes in this documentary keep putting her down calling her things like "desperate" and "sad", the woman was brilliant even in her old age.

    • @sarapeterson4604
      @sarapeterson4604 5 ปีที่แล้ว +65

      YEP...JEALOUSLY....nasty boys...😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @candimcirish
      @candimcirish 5 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      She had WAY too much money to ever be desperate anyway!

    • @alexanicolejoel2168
      @alexanicolejoel2168 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

      @Will Loomis YOU ARE 💯% CORRECT, AND I APPLAUD YOU.BRAVO!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

    • @valerieriggins3184
      @valerieriggins3184 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Women Really was Second Class or Slaves Back Then. It's Not All That Great Now.

    • @angelanetherton8240
      @angelanetherton8240 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      yea that one even called her an old woman ...i was like wtf that old woman is beautiful and more of a woman than youll ever have or get in your life you pos!

  • @ardkoroz9344
    @ardkoroz9344 4 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    She aged beautifully! She was in control and especially back then I believe was genius

  • @elmowatson541
    @elmowatson541 2 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    What a great sense of humour and easy going manner Mae West had. Even in her 80s here; she is one fantastic, sharp-minded and sweet lady.

  • @michaelpeterson1928
    @michaelpeterson1928 5 ปีที่แล้ว +524

    Mea West was the only Actress that actually Played Hollywood to her game and Hollywood ended up Bowing down ,Great I love hahahaha

    • @joanbowden7634
      @joanbowden7634 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Bow to the Queen, bitches! 😆

    • @pbohearn
      @pbohearn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Considering all the other very talented women they chewed up and spit out and destroyed where do we start? Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe, all those gorgeous actresses of the 30s and 40s that went into retirement at age 40 because there were no parts, exceptional women like John Crawford and Bette Davis who fought like bitches to still have parts in their later years. she’s amazing acting until she’s 80-something. good for her! It might’ve been a bit of vanity project, but who the hell cares? she needed something to do, for god sake’s. Like another amazing comedienne out of the school of vaudeville would say, “let me Telya Ernie, I’ll take a lover when I am 80 and it’s a lot easier for 20 to go in the 80s then for 80 to go into 20!“ LOL OL love her taste in men LOL. P a. Probably the first female started to embrace her gay audience and very forward thinking around sexuality even biracial which at that time was downright dangerous.

    • @nurlindafsihotang49
      @nurlindafsihotang49 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      And gave middle finger, figuratively, of course, to all the old men in censores...to much of fellow women (and homosexuals) at the times, giggles.

    • @eltondennie6114
      @eltondennie6114 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The great barbara stantwck got a great part as a middle age actress in the role playing mother in big valley.my favorite betty hutton said on the phil donahue show.was a actress is pass 40 its over.

    • @candicemrubio9753
      @candicemrubio9753 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@joanbowden7634 >iu

  • @TheRetroWoman80
    @TheRetroWoman80 8 ปีที่แล้ว +197

    Anybody, at that time or currently, who refuses to be governed by any rules but their own, no matter what backlash they receive, impress me greatly. Go Mae West!

    • @glamdolly30
      @glamdolly30 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Hear, Hear! She was a very impressive lady, huge respect is due!

    • @nancycrockett3444
      @nancycrockett3444 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Curvy too with real Breasts & not Pencil Thin....This is how Real Women Looked 😍❤

    • @trevormichael4906
      @trevormichael4906 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@nancycrockett3444 all biological women look like “real women”, no need to be rude to slender women by insinuating they are lesser than voluptuous ones ✌️

  • @pleasedontfeedthe6235
    @pleasedontfeedthe6235 5 ปีที่แล้ว +671

    Keep in mind, most of her 'pictures' she was in her 40s and 50s already! She was born in 1893. Still looking phenomenal.

    • @daleholbert3111
      @daleholbert3111 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      Before plastic surgery liposuctiona

    • @randallmarsh2672
      @randallmarsh2672 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Wish the ladies in there 40s and 50s looked half as good today

    • @juanap2230
      @juanap2230 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      "Yes she did" !!!

    • @womensarmycorpsveteran2904
      @womensarmycorpsveteran2904 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Randall Marsh most of the ones that haven’t succumbed to plastic surgery do look very nice.

    • @GeekInSequins
      @GeekInSequins 4 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      As a late bloomer in my life and career, I look up to her! It's never too late to make a splash.

  • @GO-eo8kg
    @GO-eo8kg 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    I love her sense of humor, and her presence! 😆💖

  • @bnk091182
    @bnk091182 4 ปีที่แล้ว +114

    Fan: "Won't you tell us where you're stopping on tour?"
    MW: "I'm stoppin' at nothin' . . ."
    I. Love. Her.

  • @angelabender8132
    @angelabender8132 5 ปีที่แล้ว +350

    She taught us that we could age gloriously and not become sad, wrinkly old ladies at 60 or 70
    She endured and maintained her sense of humour: that is the secret of living, not only existing

    • @spmoran4703
      @spmoran4703 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      She said , " I intend to grow up disgracefully not gracefully. ' I agree.

    • @petakucas7389
      @petakucas7389 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Madonna could learn a thing or 3

    • @evanatbri-s13
      @evanatbri-s13 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Having sense of humour and making a joke out of yourself are two different things. She didn't get sad old lady because she was sad since her youth to begin with.

    • @ward5582
      @ward5582 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@evanatbri-s13 3 I

    • @lauriewhite9574
      @lauriewhite9574 ปีที่แล้ว

      EdwwC

  • @alexanicolejoel2168
    @alexanicolejoel2168 5 ปีที่แล้ว +301

    I'LL TRY ANYTHING ONCE, TWO IF I LIKE IT AND THREE TO MAKE SURE, MAE WEST!!!!!!

    • @pbohearn
      @pbohearn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      ALEXA NICOLE JOEL Another Mae Bonmot!

    • @rickeyricardomatthews2147
      @rickeyricardomatthews2147 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The men commentators on this platform
      Doesn't know the taste of a woman
      How can you make stupid comments about her figure
      She was beautiful.These never had pussy since pussy had them

    • @saminabinet
      @saminabinet 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      “When choosing between two evils, I always choose the one I haven’t tried yet.”

  • @dmoneyd2010
    @dmoneyd2010 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Mae W was smooth, classy and gifted, every line she spoke was like gold 💘

  • @karenfitzsimmons1634
    @karenfitzsimmons1634 4 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    Nobody seems to mention Mae’s singing voice I think it’s fabulous

    • @spmoran4703
      @spmoran4703 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Very bluesy I love voices like that.

    • @gus4u2c
      @gus4u2c 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      She did music with Jazz Legend Duke Ellington

  • @annelliot3330
    @annelliot3330 5 ปีที่แล้ว +142

    She was awesome and way before her time. She paved the way for so many. Rest in Peace, Ms. West. You are remembered.

  • @jhaychylla
    @jhaychylla 5 ปีที่แล้ว +240

    Well, here we are in 2019 and I STILL love Mae West.

    • @mrs.pindlechlopper6455
      @mrs.pindlechlopper6455 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Thi.ng l liked about her as saying goes, she. Would. give the shirt off her back, she fought for black actors , her creativity andstyle were bar none !

    • @mrs.pindlechlopper6455
      @mrs.pindlechlopper6455 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      There's not another !

    • @mrs.pindlechlopper6455
      @mrs.pindlechlopper6455 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      She was ageless and timeless . Most women don't understand the power of the mind what you think is what you are

    • @mrs.pindlechlopper6455
      @mrs.pindlechlopper6455 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The men that knew her must have known that she knew the secret of arresting time we women of our day don't grasp her uniqueness. I think the men in life did!

    • @mrs.pindlechlopper6455
      @mrs.pindlechlopper6455 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I once read an article that l found to be incredably trueWomen that are born with all the right stuff don't keep it because in taking it for granted they do nothing to keep it so they loose it but the ones that werent so perfect work at it have a game plan they work at it this surpass there drop dead gorgeous friends. But even at that the inside is far more. Important and can make a georgeous woman look ugly

  • @mariaclark6313
    @mariaclark6313 3 ปีที่แล้ว +127

    Mae was incredible. She called her own shots, liberated far ahead of time when women were encouraged to be more subservient. She's a role model to all women. Why not write your own material and speak your mind. She was phenomenal.

    • @benitagray8287
      @benitagray8287 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Lovely Actress Today she would still be her self and MORE!!!!

    • @rvegas81
      @rvegas81 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I was shocked at Robert osbourne. Even SNL picked up on this lol

    • @tula1433
      @tula1433 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      While I agree. Many women called Mae West “filth” “trash” “explicit” so women also kept the status quo going back then. Not just men.

    • @pouglwaw5932
      @pouglwaw5932 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@tula1433 Oh yes ! Women called her "shameless" and reviled her for being so explicit about something that "should always be kept hidden"- Sex !

  • @geoffreyfox9801
    @geoffreyfox9801 8 ปีที่แล้ว +246

    Mae West was brilliant. She created her persona. Her comic timing was impeccable. She lived life on her terms. She was smart, wise, and funny. Those who knew her personally described her as a kind and generous friend. David O' Selznick offered her the part of Belle Watling in "Gone with the Wind". She would have been terrific with Gable. However, Mae told Selznick, " It's Scarlett O'hara or nothing!"

    • @tcharleston81
      @tcharleston81 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      She was sort of diluted and ego-centric. Mae West as Scarlet, are you kidding me? She's a Watley.

    • @alexanicolejoel2168
      @alexanicolejoel2168 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@tcharleston81 AND YOU ARE IN NEED OF MEDICAL HELP❗️

    • @alexanicolejoel2168
      @alexanicolejoel2168 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@tcharleston81 AND YOU ARE A DUMBASS❗️

    • @lotuslotus6610
      @lotuslotus6610 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@tcharleston81 projecting ur own insecurities on a once successful dead woman ? You don't look good honey

    • @larapalma3744
      @larapalma3744 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@alexanicolejoel2168 no she's spot on

  • @bluegypsy71
    @bluegypsy71 5 ปีที่แล้ว +329

    Half the gay queens in this LOVE her and the other aging queens can barely hide their jealousy of her with those backhanded comments about her weight and looks😅 wow

    • @csocseszrocsesz
      @csocseszrocsesz 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Blue Gypsy When i think about it, that is the last thing, someone can criticise, if they are out of other arguments. It is easy to come for someones looks... hateful people...

    • @mj6962
      @mj6962 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That’s exactly what I commented about! lol

    • @mj6962
      @mj6962 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Blue Gypsy Most of these people are dead now anyway lol

    • @SunshineCountryChickens
      @SunshineCountryChickens 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thats what I was thinking

    • @geminikb
      @geminikb 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I didn’t quite catch it that way. Interesting.... shady shade.

  • @theboredprogrammer1114
    @theboredprogrammer1114 5 ปีที่แล้ว +467

    I wish she's alive during our time and active on social media...that would be great and funny.
    Plus I love how she is displaying sexuality as something powerful and fun.

    • @jaimicottrill2831
      @jaimicottrill2831 4 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      TheBoredEngineer omg, can you imagine the tweets she would send out. They would be epic!

    • @jackanthony976
      @jackanthony976 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Mae West would never lower herself do be active on social media.

    • @AntajuanGrady
      @AntajuanGrady 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      she's sort of alive through Lady Gaga

    • @dw999
      @dw999 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @Bored: Follow Bette Midler on Twitter -- that's about as close as you can get.

    • @tonantzintalavera
      @tonantzintalavera 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Well... we have Bette!

  • @sharrielee911
    @sharrielee911 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Mae West will always reign supreme...smiles

  • @sxippydennison3577
    @sxippydennison3577 4 ปีที่แล้ว +52

    Mae was gorgeously voluptuous, and more importantly she had cunning wit, great tongue & cheek humor, and an intellectual business acumen to sell her larger than life persona to the public. Whatever these men's ideas of what beauty truly is, they're blind to all facets she had.

    • @kathleenmcgill5781
      @kathleenmcgill5781 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Didn't accept the other stuff so I'm doing it again with the microphone. All this seems foreign to me, Irish immigrants raise polish believe it or not. Was'grandfather's into the into the American association of sex educators counselors and therapists AASECT. IN THE SEVENTIES HAD RAPE CASES BUT FATHERS BY FATHERS SORRY USING A MICROPHONE AND STEPFATHERS THERE WAS NOTHING IN SEX BOOKS THEN. Now I know what I would do but I pray that those cases got that they need somewhere they needed somewhere God bless

  • @LusciousTwinkle
    @LusciousTwinkle 4 ปีที่แล้ว +191

    They are all talking about her like she was some plain Jane....or worse, a hideous old matron. She wasnt...She was beautiful and sexy....Venus - the mother, the lover, the queen. There was just a different aesthetic back then.

    • @santyclause8034
      @santyclause8034 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      They were all starch and stuffed shirts. She loved to light a blowtorch in a stuffed shirts face and let 'em feel the burn. She railed against their holier-than-thou chides and insincere hypocrisy.

    • @marilyndresser2377
      @marilyndresser2377 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Very true insight💯

    • @moodylittleowl
      @moodylittleowl 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      but thats part of her legacy! she was not by extraordinarily beautiful by any standards but she was insanely sexy because of the way she carried herself and her personality

    • @mikeamico6763
      @mikeamico6763 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I agree Lola ,to me she was all woman gorgeous a guitar shape snd very pretty face with a sharp mind a triple threat if you will. No matter what one thinks we still talking about her lol

    • @stephaniebrooks8044
      @stephaniebrooks8044 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ikr! They better recognize!! 😀

  • @estelaparham9450
    @estelaparham9450 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    I loved Mae West. I watched all her movies and loved the way she talked. Beautiful actress. May she Rest In Peace

  • @MarkWG
    @MarkWG 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I loved Mae West for decades. She was actually from my grandparent's era. As a young kid in the 1960's and 1970's I could still laugh at her naughty lines and remarks on screen. I knew exactly what she was referring to. There will never be another Mae West. She was one of a kind.
    Smart businesswoman. Mae was quoted often that she knew in the early 1920s that land in Hollywood would be worth a fortune in a few short decades. She took it very seriously. When she made money on her pictures and plays, she would invest heavily into Los Angeles real estate. She owned more than a third of all of the land in Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and Bel-Air.

    • @DivaClariceWilliams
      @DivaClariceWilliams 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      She's an absolute legend and deserves her accolades and fame.

  • @AngelaM731
    @AngelaM731 5 ปีที่แล้ว +863

    She was pretty with curves, and personality.
    Society's beauty standards sucks!

    • @walterhines6148
      @walterhines6148 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      You babe. You took the words right out of my mouth. To many people are stereotypes. We need more love and compassionate people

    • @idontgiveafaboutyou
      @idontgiveafaboutyou 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      All healthy body sizes are beautiful

    • @walterhines6148
      @walterhines6148 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@idontgiveafaboutyou thank you. Enjoy you day

    • @walterhines6148
      @walterhines6148 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Thanks babe. Have many happy time

    • @walterhines6148
      @walterhines6148 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Thanks babe. Have many great times

  • @johnnyray88
    @johnnyray88 4 ปีที่แล้ว +122

    Mae West laughed at them all on her way to the bank.

  • @Miss_NatashaO
    @Miss_NatashaO 5 ปีที่แล้ว +87

    She had confidence, and it went a long way!

  • @garneauweld1100
    @garneauweld1100 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    When I was a young kid watching classic movies on channel 11 in St. Louis, I remember seeing Mae West acting and singing. I didn't know what to make of her except that she was distinctive. Now that I'm older, I understand. Without question, Mae West is an American institution.

  • @alexanicolejoel2168
    @alexanicolejoel2168 5 ปีที่แล้ว +131

    MAE WEST WAS EXTREMELY FUNNY AMONG OTHER THINGS, MAE WEST WAS A GODDESS 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸💞💞💞

    • @Dd-xt8hc
      @Dd-xt8hc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I like het and w c fields together. And i like to hear her sing the music is great

  • @cherielaukka9710
    @cherielaukka9710 4 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    Mae West would of been such gas to hangout with. Afternoon out for coffee & a laugh with the girls. Her line about mirrors on the ceiling in her bedroom, She says "I like to see how I'm doing" that is priceless.

    • @Elena-er7zp
      @Elena-er7zp 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      except she didn’t really befriend girls so nice fantasy

    • @thebtchthathikes1008
      @thebtchthathikes1008 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Elena-er7zp understandable. There is no sisterhood.

    • @natekey3279
      @natekey3279 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      After watching may west storie,is not that she was ahead of her time, this is who she is !!,god gave her that personality, so we all could see it, and talk about it today , and have a opinion, a conversation, a thought, what he creates is beyond are imagination, its his world !, we just live in it...she was great🙂

    • @cristinafisher2565
      @cristinafisher2565 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A Legend. Liked her singing
      She was petite, like a stick of Dynamite

    • @romystumpy1197
      @romystumpy1197 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Elena-er7zp very true, im not a fan of hers, she was very ordinary looking, not sexy and think she looked awful when older touting the same spiel

  • @abezue
    @abezue 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    My grandmother used to call me Mae West. I miss her so much and anytime I hear something about her I think of my grandmother.

    • @nelixsulu6201
      @nelixsulu6201 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ha! That’s funny cause my mom used to call me Bette Davis when I was little! (Because of how overdramatic I was)

  • @sharonstromley9350
    @sharonstromley9350 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Mae West had a huge stage presence. In reality, physically, MW was just under 5' tall and wore towering high heels. The way she dressed, moved, spoke were all her!
    An original, she copied no one and was brave enough to recognize her own uniqueness. She was most
    certainly, one-of-a-kind!
    Mae owned property around Burbank when it was not developed, acres of the valley and recognized the land's profitability long before others were buying. She was an incredible business woman, very wealthy with ahead-of-her-time business acumen. Amazing!

  • @LIZZIE-lizzie
    @LIZZIE-lizzie 5 ปีที่แล้ว +532

    "They" do not consider MAE WEST as a Blonde Bombshell.
    MAE WEST "WAS" THE BLONDE BOMBSHELL.

    • @botticellichick6393
      @botticellichick6393 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I so agree with you! I think she was lovely and what a figure. You're right, she was a bombshell blonde. ❤

    • @Spiderman7Bob7
      @Spiderman7Bob7 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      The original BLONDE BOMBSHELL was Jean Harlow. Not Mae West.

    • @botticellichick6393
      @botticellichick6393 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@Spiderman7Bob7 Jean Harlow was gorgeous woman. All we said is that Mae was A blonde bombshell but everyone has their favs 🤩

    • @aprilshelton9355
      @aprilshelton9355 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Robert Anderson Jean Harlow is my grandmothers cousin. And yes, Jean actually was considered the First real ‘bomb shell’ . Both women are nostalgic and interesting

    • @waynethomas1726
      @waynethomas1726 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes, THE blonde bombshell.

  • @odysseus325
    @odysseus325 8 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    This lady was way ahead of her time, I always said it, I was born in the wrong era.... Love her innuendos, and a savvy business women... I'm here thinking that Madonna paved the way for women to be more daring, was I way off... She broke the censorship of those times... Now I got to see her movies... I have heard of her because of one her famous lines, why don't you come up and see me sometime, but not like this... She is one of my favorite now... She cracks me up... Hands down Ms. West you have a new admirer here... Thanks for posting....

    • @rosaliastamatakos2498
      @rosaliastamatakos2498 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Odysseus Duran said

    • @TheTibmeister
      @TheTibmeister 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Odysseus Duran To get the same effect Madonna has to take her clothes off. It’s demeaning. Madonna should rent herself a dvd player and a box set.

  • @glamdolly30
    @glamdolly30 8 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    What a simply magical woman! Funny, feisty, free and fabulous. She had a huge heart and took no shit from anyone. We need more strong, sassy women like Mae in this world - God bless her, thanks to film her magic lives on. There's a sweet interview she gave to Dick Cavett here on You Tube in which he asks her about her late mother. Mae was quite elderly at this point and she talks about how much she adored her mum and how much her mum adored her - she is clearly emotional. It's very touching. I think maybe Mae's wonderful confidence and self belief must have come from her mother's love.

    • @deboraharroyo2794
      @deboraharroyo2794 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      glamdolly20 I want to be Mae when I grow up real swagger

    • @thelmaladerberg7919
      @thelmaladerberg7919 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      glamdolly20 vfdtj

    • @dukethomas95
      @dukethomas95 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Proof you don't need to because size 0 to be sexy

  • @ladyrachel13
    @ladyrachel13 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    I remember watching all those Mae West movies from the 1930s. She was something, didn't care what anyone thought. Good for her! 🤩💖

  • @zuzellogan5613
    @zuzellogan5613 3 ปีที่แล้ว +95

    There is only one Mae West and she is irreplaceable. Thank you Mae for entertaining us during your career, you will never be forgotten.

  • @britannia5370
    @britannia5370 5 ปีที่แล้ว +405

    "Is that a gun in your pocket or are you happy to see me?".. Isnt that brilliant and cheeky?

    • @jonnyq680
      @jonnyq680 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      and immortal

    • @janicecook1066
      @janicecook1066 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Lol, what a Line, I Love it!

    • @dlwhite1965
      @dlwhite1965 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      "Is that a banana in your pocket or are you just happy to see me"

    • @akrenwinkle
      @akrenwinkle 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @à la claire fontaine When Mae and Raquel Welch made "Myra Breckinridge" together, Mae did everything she could to diss Raquel. One way, really old school, was to make hash out of Raquel's name, like you did. Mae referred to her as Rachel Walsh or other mistakes, as if Raquel was a nobody, an unknown. "A real star wouldn't have taken that role," Mae proclaimed.

    • @jayellevanderschoor1786
      @jayellevanderschoor1786 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      That was the best!

  • @ThienPhuViktorLassley
    @ThienPhuViktorLassley 4 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    Mae West was one of the most beautiful women that ever lived. How dare they say she wasn't very pretty?

    • @NIGHTGUYRYAN
      @NIGHTGUYRYAN ปีที่แล้ว +1

      hahaha

    • @pouglwaw5932
      @pouglwaw5932 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Mae was a timeless, classical beauty queen, not a trendy fashion babe. The lovely ladies of the '30's look so "dated" now, but not Mae West.

  • @stephenvinson6474
    @stephenvinson6474 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    She Made a lasting impression one way or other ..but she MADE IT!!!

  • @juanap2230
    @juanap2230 4 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    May west was the bomb!!! Her body and her looks was beautiful She wasn't thin and fragile she was curvey. I enjoy her movies and she was funny.

  • @lynnpurcell7583
    @lynnpurcell7583 8 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    Dom Deluise has to be the nicest person ever in Hollywood. You just feel like you could hang with him. I wish I could've met him.

  • @puddysue
    @puddysue 5 ปีที่แล้ว +347

    Hey, Rex Reed... one thing that Mae West WASN'T was desperate. You, on the other hand...

    • @bellabelisarius7049
      @bellabelisarius7049 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @da Blondie AMEN to that.❤

    • @meeeka
      @meeeka 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Joseph Mcbride Those who can do, those who can't, either teach or critique.

    • @tracyjohnson9198
      @tracyjohnson9198 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Thank you! both he and Robert Osborne came off as a couple of nasty queens. I'd love to see a real documentary on the great writer/performer Mae West. This was not it.

  • @michellerene951
    @michellerene951 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Mae West was definitely one of a kind.

  • @BuddhaLove77
    @BuddhaLove77 5 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    Mae West was a strong attractive woman and is an excellent example of a powerful woman. Thank You for this video 🙏

  • @mejustme479
    @mejustme479 6 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    I remember when she died, it was a shock, because she wasn't in the news a very long time. Like Zha-Zha Gabor.. A total shock when she died. God Bless Mae West! 💖

  • @dawnb5098
    @dawnb5098 7 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    I have a ton of respect for Mae West. She was brilliant & highly intelligent. She was way ahead of her time.❤️

  • @LoquaciousByNature
    @LoquaciousByNature 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Her wit and candor is always refreshing 😊

  • @leeleeturn
    @leeleeturn 5 ปีที่แล้ว +157

    As a straight woman, she just seems adorable to me! She seems one of those people who is so likeable that she doesn't arouse jealousy despite all her success financially and romantically.

    • @pbohearn
      @pbohearn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      leeleeturn exactly. The only people that are really going to not like her are very uptight judgemental people who have problems with their own sexuality. I think most women would not feel threatened by her I think they might admire her, certainly would enjoy her company. And the men; of course! And the gays; of course! So where do the lesbians stand on Mae?

    • @dr.science9505
      @dr.science9505 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Who knows of she was straight or a woman.

    • @pbohearn
      @pbohearn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Dr. Science c’mon up and we can settle the matter...Mmmm...

  • @SJanez91
    @SJanez91 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    For someone who started in Hollywood in her 40s, she looked damn good! Even at 55, she was giving the women in their 20s a run for their money!

  • @Erika-be9hq
    @Erika-be9hq 5 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    This was an awesome documentary. Ms. Mae West was fearless, talented and beautiful.

  • @luiszuluaga6575
    @luiszuluaga6575 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I have a newfound respect for such a legendary actress and personality who understood how to charm and disarm. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

  • @DearMsFabulous
    @DearMsFabulous 5 ปีที่แล้ว +452

    Her body was bangin. Especially for that era. She had that it factor.

    • @bernardjharmsen304
      @bernardjharmsen304 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      25:08 nude

    • @geekfreak2000
      @geekfreak2000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Like even now, her figure is considered to be fabulous.

    • @shanenolan85
      @shanenolan85 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Agreed💯 Curvy and Seductive

    • @Dominiqueuqinimod
      @Dominiqueuqinimod 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Pinky jones What an odd thing to say.

    • @narvelancoleman3813
      @narvelancoleman3813 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Pinky jones.......Try not to be so antagostic all of your life!

  • @peggywelty5139
    @peggywelty5139 4 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    Glad she had guts to stand up for herself and what she wanted out of life and got it.

  • @bellabelisarius2090
    @bellabelisarius2090 4 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    This video should be called Mae West and the enemies she she knew. Because COME ON!! Some of these people should have never be Interview, because those 2 people meaning Robert Osborne and Erick Conkling completely trashed Mae West. RIP BEAUTIFUL LADY.❤️🌹❤️🌹❤️🌹🌹🌹

    • @MsJuanitaMichelle
      @MsJuanitaMichelle 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Especially Robert Osborne. "wasn't particularly pretty, didn't have a good figure" ,😲😤😦 I couldn't believe it!

    • @loveme-pn5je
      @loveme-pn5je 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Stfu they told the truth

    • @yvonneollivier7088
      @yvonneollivier7088 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@loveme-pn5je Truth? perhaps, in their sad eyes. Sincerity isn't everything. You gotta consider the source. Those vicious creatures are polluted sources.

  • @caroleann_2142
    @caroleann_2142 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    She made Carey Grant a Star... My Great Grandmother was as Spunky, When she became a widow at 50 but remarried a man 15 yrs her Junior, She passed away at 97 in 1973. What a Darling she was, so bold so brave.

    • @imanigabbana6629
      @imanigabbana6629 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      She was actually 87 years old when she died in 1980

    • @MrWillHughes
      @MrWillHughes 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@imanigabbana6629 they meant their grandmother passed away in 1973. 😊

  • @Darrigrande
    @Darrigrande 8 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    She was a very special lady!! Surely one of the great stars that Hollywood ever produced!

    • @Darrigrande
      @Darrigrande 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Not at all! She is a great star and nobody can denied it!