It feels obvious to me that she and Groucho Marx, then Bob Hope a little later, had styles that presaged the much more naturalistic acting traditions that are thought to have begun with Marlon Brando and James Dean.
Don’t know of any dramatic actors who figured it out that early.
> Three years later West made one more film, The Heat’s On, then swished off the screen for many years, save two late-career efforts that will go unmentioned here.
I personally have no idea what this article is really talking about or what the significance of it is that would cause it to be up voted so highly. Baffled.
HN has high proportion of "tech" people. Tech people old enough to have lived through "birth of Internet" or into 80's hacker/phreaker culture will know of MAE West and MAE East. These people, upvoted for nostalgia and to express comradery with poster.
Isolated datapoint: I'm in the UK, the Fred & Rosemary West thing happened while I was growing up, and to me "Mae West" very definitely means the actress and not the serial killers' daughter.
> "instead of referring to the subject of the post."
I wasn't referring to the subject of the post.
You don't think it's interesting that you just did the same thing to my comment, that I did to the title of the post? That's fine it's not Earth shaking. Usually famous people have unique enough names, or I've heard of both or neither.
That performance is chilling. No one can say she didn’t understand the blues.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CpS5aPlgWa8
It feels obvious to me that she and Groucho Marx, then Bob Hope a little later, had styles that presaged the much more naturalistic acting traditions that are thought to have begun with Marlon Brando and James Dean.
Don’t know of any dramatic actors who figured it out that early.