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[MikeNL]

As the title may imply:
Black thingy that i cannot really put my finger on in the above part of the sgt pepper cover:

[iameye]

...a BLACK BOA next to Mr. Crowley, I presume. ...has something to do with the Apollo myth?

[MikeNL]

hmm... it looks very strange

[JoJo]

One of the things I made when messing around with the mirror stuff:

[B]

mikenl said:

hmm... it looks very strange

It's being worn by the blond woman, presumably.

[MikeNL]

well i though it was done with paint...

[ccinri]

LMAO...I had to see what this was all about! The Blond woman was Mae West (who I believe was black and rumored to be actually be a man? sorry will have to check that again!) That black boa ain't talkin.

[mommybird]

If Mae West was a man, he was a real small guy. She used to have to stand on a crate for alot of her scenes. She was rather short.

Date of Birth
17 August 1893, Brooklyn, New York, USA


Date of Death
22 November 1980, Hollywood, California, USA. (complications from strokes)


Birth Name
Mary Jane West


Height
5' 1" (1.55 m)


Mini Biography
Mae West was born in Brooklyn, New York, to "Battling Jack" West and Matilda Doelger. She began her career as a child star in vaudeville, and later went on to write her own plays, including "SEX", for which she was arrested. Though her first movie role was a small part in Night After Night (1932), her scene has become famous. A coat check girl exclaims, "Goodness! What lovely diamonds!", after seeing Mae's jewelry. Mae replies, "Goodness had nothing to do with it". Her next film, in which she starred, came the following year. She Done Him Wrong (1933) was based on her earlier and very popular play, "Diamond Lil". She went on to write and star in seven more films, including My Little Chickadee (1940) with W.C. Fields. Her last movie was Sextette (1978), which also came from a play. She died two years later.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Carla Donnell


Mini Biography
Mary Jane West was born in Brooklyn, New York, on August 17, 1893, to parents involved in prizefighting and vaudeville. Mae herself worked on the stage and in vaudeville from the time she was five years old. She never was academically inclined because she was too busy performing. She studied dance as a child, and by the time she was 14 she was billed as "The Baby Vamp" for her performances on stage. Later Mae began writing her own plays. One of those plays, "Sex", landed her in jail for ten days on obscenity charges in 1926. Two years later her play "Diamond Lil" became a huge Broadway success. Mae caught the attention of the Hollywood studios and was given her first movie role with George Raft in Night After Night (1932). Although it was a small role, she was able to display a wit that was to make her world-famous. Raft himself said of Mae, "She stole everything but the cameras." The moviegoing public fell in love with the first woman to make racy comments on film. She became a box-office smash hit, breaking all sorts of attendance records. Her second film, She Done Him Wrong (1933), was based on her earlier and popular play that she had written herself. The film was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Picture. It also made Cary Grant a star. Her third film later that year was I'm No Angel (1933). The controversy aroused by these two films resulted in the studios establishing the Motion Picture Production Code, which regulated what content could be shown or said in pictures. As a result of these codes, Mae began to double-talk so that a person could take a word or phrase any way they wished. This was so she could get her material past the censors, and it worked. She really felt she had a vested interest because it was her written work being scrutinized. She had already written and performed these for the stage with the very material now being filmed. Her next film, Belle of the Nineties (1934), was an equal hit. By 1936, with Klondike Annie (1936) and Go West Young Man (1936) she became the highest paid woman in the US. After 1937's Every Day's a Holiday (1937), she didn't make another film until 1940, when she co-starred with W.C. Fields in another film she wrote herself, My Little Chickadee (1940). It was well known she had little use for Fields and his ways, which were crude ven for her. After The Heat's On (1943), Mae took a respite from the film world, mainly because the censors were getting stricter. She decided she would be able to have greater expression in her work if she went back to the stage. Mae continued to be a success there. When censorship began to end in the 1960s, she returned to film work in 1970's Myra Breckinridge (1970). MYRA Her last film was 1978's Sextette (1978). Mae suffered a series of strokes which finally resulted in her death at age 87 on November 22, 1980, in Hollywood, California. She was buried in New York. The actress, who only appeared in 12 films in 46 years, had a powerful impact on us. There was no doubt she was way ahead of her time with her sexual innuendos and how she made fun of a puritanical society. She did a lot to bring it out of the closet and perhaps we should be grateful for that.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Denny Jackson (qv's & corrections by A. Nonymous)

www.imdb.com/name/nm0922213/bio

[ccinri]

Hi Mommybird! Jill Watts was the source for Mae's African American roots. 1966.proboards40.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=1106794915 posted that she had been replaced by her brother!
Paul Bearer had posted this link at TKIN from a poster from Revolution 9 named Athenais.

[mommybird]

It looks like noone's posted at Rev # 9 in a long time. I found some photos of her. It looks like it's going to be a bit of a hassle to date them, and I don't have the time right now to further research this.