When Mae Met Edith
Edith Head was one of the great costume designers of Hollywood's gMae West in a test shot for her costumeolden era. Raised in a Midwestern mining town, she went on to college in an era when few girls...
View ArticleHow Mae West Saved Paramount Pictures
This is the story of how Mae West saved Paramount Pictures, one of the founding motion picture studios in Hollywood. It’s the story of artists and executives, though they’re sometimes the same person....
View ArticleBighearted Beauty: Mae West’s First Appearance in Night After Night
Mae West’s first screen appearance in the vaguely Damon Runyon-esque George Raft vehicle Night After Night, 1932 (actually from a story by the prolific Louis Bromfield) sets the pattern for her own...
View ArticleArt Director: The Vision of Wiard Ihnen
By 1932 Ihnen was established at Paramount Studios. His formal training and dramatic imagination allowed him to master anything a film required, from simple cottage interiors to the fantastically...
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