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Mae West Collection

Enjoy this collection of sultry and witty guest appearances including the controversial skit that banned her from the airwaves.

Mae West

8 old time radio show recordings
(total playtime 4 hours, 19 min)
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Mae West
(1893 – 1980)

Mae West

Mae West (1893-1980)

Mae WestMae West made a career of sultry and witty performances delivering double entendres, with a cat-like purr. She created and nurtured a racy character for her on and off screen life. To her credit, this erotic image was ambitiously calculated to further her career, create a fantasy life for herself, and allowed her to reach iconic status. West once stated about her racy approach, "It's better to be looked over, than overlooked." She began performing in vaudeville as a child and with the encouragement of her mother helped popularize the shimmie at the age of 12 and was billed as "The Baby Vamp."

One of the first women to consistently write in the movies she stared in, Mae West wrote risqu plays including Sex, The Wicked Age, Pleasure Man and The Constant Sinner, The Drag, Diamond Lil, and Sexette many of which jumped from the stage to the silver screen. The titillating controversy around her plays and her persona equaled box-office success. She was no stranger to scandal in 1927 she was arrested for public obscenity which she turned into a media circus when granted the request to wear silk underwear rather than the prison issue clothing.

Mae West & Charlie McCarthyWhen given a contract with Paramount studios, she was given the power to rewrite her scenes. Her oft-repeated famous line "Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me" was first said to a LAPD officer escorting her to her home. So tickled by the meaning of this line, she used it in the film My Little Chickadee.

In her raucous guest appearance on the Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy show, she flirted with McCarthy making the always clever dummy loose concentration when she said, "Charles, I remember our date and have the splinters to prove it." The show also featured an Arch Obelor skit of Adam and Eve with Mae West and Don Ameche as the fateful biblical couple; it was considered so obscene that her name was banned from the network. On being censored she said, "I believe in censorship. After all, I made a fortune out of it."

In all there are few surviving radio appearances existing due to the censorship after the Bergen-McCarthy show as studios wavered between love and hate of this memorable woman. Included in this collection are all known guest appearances of Mae West.

See also: Tallulah Bankhead.

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    Mae West was obviously used as the scapegoat in the whole scandal. She didn't write the skit, nor did she cast herself in the part of Eve. The skit was written to depict Eve as the character that West always portrayed, she was cast for that reason, and she portrayed that character as expected. It probably was at least in part because she was a woman, but in any event, she made a convenient scapegoat. Listening to the skit today, it's hard to tell what was so scandalous back then.

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    8 recordings on 1 MP3 CD for just $5.00. Total playtime 4 hours, 19 min
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    1. 8 shows - total playtime 4 hours 19 minutes
    2. Calling All Cars 340221 013 Mae West Jewel Robbery.mp3
    3. Calling All Cars 350319 069 Mae West Repeat Partial Aka.mp3
    4. Chase Sannborn Ann Show 641115 Cs 101st Anniversary.mp3
    5. Edgar Bergen 371212 Adam Eve Guest Mae West.mp3
    6. Jack Benny 330331 3-05 Mae West Skit.mp3
    7. Mae West Too Hot For Radio The Garden 1 [repeat].mp3
    8. Mae West Too Hot For Radio The Garden 2 [repeat].mp3
    9. Mary Does Mae West.mp3
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    8 recordings on 1 MP3 Collection Download for just $5.00. Total playtime 4 hours, 19 min
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    1. 8 shows - total playtime 4 hours 19 minutes
    2. Calling All Cars 340221 013 Mae West Jewel Robbery.mp3
    3. Calling All Cars 350319 069 Mae West Repeat Partial Aka.mp3
    4. Chase Sannborn Ann Show 641115 Cs 101st Anniversary.mp3
    5. Edgar Bergen 371212 Adam Eve Guest Mae West.mp3
    6. Jack Benny 330331 3-05 Mae West Skit.mp3
    7. Mae West Too Hot For Radio The Garden 1 [repeat].mp3
    8. Mae West Too Hot For Radio The Garden 2 [repeat].mp3
    9. Mary Does Mae West.mp3
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    8 recordings on 5 Audio CDs. Total playtime 4 hours, 19 min
    8 recordings on 5 Audio CDs
    total playtime 4 hours, 19 min

    Mae West Disc A001

    1. Mae West Too Hot For Radio The Garden 1 [repeat]
    2. Mae West Too Hot For Radio The Garden 2 [repeat]

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    Mae West Disc A002

    1. Mary Does Mae West
    2. Jack Benny 330331 3-05 Mae West Skit

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    Mae West Disc A003

    1. Calling All Cars 340221 013 Mae West Jewel Robbery
    2. Calling All Cars 350319 069 Mae West Repeat Partial Aka

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    Mae West Disc A004

    1. Edgar Bergen 371212 Adam Eve Guest Mae West

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    Mae West Disc A005

    1. Chase Sannborn Ann Show 641115 Cs 101st Anniversary

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