MAE WEST SINGS MYRA BRECKINRIDGE DJ PROMO PS 45 rpm YOU GOTTA TASTE THE FRUIT

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 MAE WEST SINGS:

Two songs which were originally cut from the Soundtrack of the 20th Century Fox Film

"Myra Breckingridge"

 Hard to Handle ~ You Gotta Taste All the Fruit

RARE DJ Promo Picture Sleeve 45

20th Century Fox 8718 White Label Promo

YEAR OF ISSUE: 1970

VINYL = NEAR MINT

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MYRA BRECKINRIDGE

Director: Michael Sarne

Writers: David Giler (writer) & Michael Sarne (writer)

Release Date: 24 June 1970 (USA)

 Genre: Comedy

Tagline: Meet Myra Breckinridge. You'll Never Forget Her!

Plot: Myron Breckinridge is waiting for his sex-change operation while a stoned surgeon stumbles into the operating room...

Cast  (Cast overview, first billed only)

 Mae West ...  Leticia Van Allen
 John Huston ...  Buck Loner
 Raquel Welch ...  Myra Breckinridge
 Rex Reed ...  Myron
 Farrah Fawcett ...  Mary Ann Pringle
 Roger C. Carmel ...  Dr. Randolph Spencer Montag
 Roger Herren ...  Rusty Godowski
 George Furth ...  Charlie Flager Jr.
 Calvin Lockhart ...  Irving Amadeus
 Jim Backus ...  Doctor
 John Carradine ...  Surgeon
 Andy Devine ...  Coyote Bill
 Grady Sutton ...  Kid Barlow
 Robert P. Lieb ...  Charlie Flager Sr. (as Robert Lieb)
 Skip Ward ...  Chance
 Kathleen Freeman ...  Bobby Dean Loner
 B.S. Pully ...  Tex
 Buck Kartalian ...  Jeff
 Monte Landis ...  Vince
 Tom Selleck ...  Stud
 Peter Ireland ...  Student
 Nelson Sardelli ...  Mario
 Cal Bartlett ...  Acting school student (uncredited)
 Toni Basil ...  Cigarette Girl (uncredited)
 Thordis Brandt ...  Whip-cracking masseuse (uncredited)
 Choo Choo Collins ...  Party guest (uncredited)
 Dan Hedaya ...  Patient in Hospital Ward (uncredited)
 William Hopper ...  Judge Frederic D. Cannon (uncredited)
 Ethelreda Leopold ...  Extra / bridge party guest (uncredited)
 Miel Saan ...  (uncredited)
 Michael Sarne ...  Acting school student (uncredited)
 Michael Stearns ...  Stud (uncredited)
 Svetlana ...  Extra (uncredited)
 Geneviève Waïte ...  Dental patient (uncredited)

This is truly one of the most notorious films in Hollywood history: Myra Breckenridge, the wild, tasteless, legendary disaster. Sprung from a novel by Gore Vidal, Myra tells the tender tale of a man (damply played by film critic Rex Reed) who has a sex-change operation and goes to Hollywood as a woman--played by Raquel Welch. This was rated "X" at the time. Mae West creaked out of retirement to play a man-hungry agent (one of her meals is young Tom Selleck), and John Huston is an aging cowboy star, Myra's nemesis. Mae had two numbers in the film, which were cut from the original film release.

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Mae West was born August 17, 1893 and named Mary Jane West in a middle class section of Queens, New York City.  Mae West was only 5 years old when she started appearing in amateur shows and many times she won prizes for her performances. West began performing professionally in vaudeville in 1905 at the age of twelve. She performed at that time under the name The Baby Vamp, after trying out various personas as a Sis Hopkins and blackface coon shouter unsuccessfully. Though she had not yet matured, the slinky, dark-haired Mae was already performing a lascivious "shimmy" dance in 1913 and was photographed for a song-sheet for the song "Everybody Shimmies Now." She was encouraged as a performer by her mother, who, according to West, always thought that whatever her daughter did was fantastic.  Her famous walk was said to have originated in her early years as a stage actress after she saw female impersonator Bert Savoy perform. West had special eight-inch platforms attached to her shoes to increase her height and enhance her stage presence. Eventually, she began writing her own risqué plays using the pen name "Jane Mast." Her first starring role on Broadway was in a play she titled Sex, which she also wrote, produced and directed. Though critics hated the show, ticket sales were good. The notorious production did not go over well with city officials and the theater was raided with West arrested along with the cast.  She was prosecuted on morals charges and, on April 19, 1927, was sentenced to 10 days in jail for public obscenity. While incarcerated on Roosevelt Island, she was allowed to wear her silk underpants instead of the scratchy prison issue and the warden reportedly took her to dinner every night. She served eight days with two days off for good behavior. Media attention to the case enhanced her career.  Her next play, The Drag, was about homosexuality and alluded to the work of Karl Heinrich Ulrich's. It was a box office success but it played in New Jersey because it was banned from Broadway. West regarded talking about sex as a basic human rights issue and was also an early advocate of gay and trans gender rights. She famously told policemen who were raiding a gay bar, "Don't you know you're hitting a woman in a man's body?", a daring statement at a time when homosexuality was not accepted. During her entire lifetime she surrounded herself with gay men and stood up for gay rights at any and every opportunity.  She continued to write plays including The Wicked Age, Pleasure Man and The Constant Sinner. Her productions were plagued by controversy and other problems. The controversy insured that Mae stayed in the news and most of the time resulted in packed performances.  "Diamond Lil" returning to New York from Hollywood, 1933Her 1928 play, Diamond Lil, about a racy, easygoing lady of the 1890s, became a Broadway hit. This show enjoyed an enduring popularity and West would successfully revive it many times throughout the course of her career.  In 1932, West was offered a motion picture contract by Paramount. She signed and went to Hollywood to appear in Night After Night starring George Raft. Upon her arrival, she moved into an apartment in the Ravenswood at 570 North Rossmore Avenue, not far from the studio on Melrose. She maintained a residence at the Ravenswood, her preferred abode, for the rest of her life, although she also owned a beach house and a ranch in the San Fernando Valley.  Mae West's signatureAt first, she did not like her small role in Night After Night, but was appeased when she was allowed to rewrite her scenes. In West's first scene, a hat check girl exclaimed, "Goodness, what lovely diamonds." West replied, "Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie."   She brought her Diamond Lil character, now renamed Lady Lou, to the screen in She Done Him Wrong (1933). The film is also notable for one of Cary Grant's first major roles, which boosted his career. West had spotted Grant at the studio and insisted that he be cast as the male lead. The movie was a financial success, and earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture.  Her next release, I'm No Angel, paired her with Grant again. "I'm No Angel" was nominated for an Academy Award for "Best Picture." It was a tremendous financial blockbuster and, along with She Done Him Wrong, saved Paramount from bankruptcy. Mae West was the largest box office draw in the United States at the time. However, the frank sexuality and seamy settings of her films aroused the wrath of moralists. On July 1, 1934, the censorship of the Production Code began to be seriously and meticulously enforced, and her scripts began to be heavily edited. Her tactical response was to increase the number of double entendres in her films, expecting the censors to delete the obvious lines and overlook the subtle ones.  West's next movie was Belle of the Nineties (1934). It was originally titled It Ain't No Sin, but the title was changed due to the censor's objection. Other tentative working titles included That St. Louis Woman, Belle of St. Louis and Belle of New Orleans. The same could be said for her following film, Goin' To Town (1935), which was originally titled How Am I Doin'? In 1936, she adapted for the screen Lawrence Riley's Broadway hit Personal Appearance. The film, directed by Henry Hathaway, was one of the rare times when West starred in a role not originally conceived for her. In it she played opposite Randolph Scott. West starred in two other movies for Paramount before their association came to an end.  Five years later, she starred opposite W.C. Fields in My Little Chickadee (1940) at Universal. West and Fields, who were both accustomed to working with supporting players and not as co-stars, did not get along and she would not tolerate his drinking. According to legend, the only way Fields and West could be in the same scene was to film them separately and then splice the film together. My Little Chickadee was a huge box office success and outgrossed all other W.C. Fields movies. Universal was delighted with its success and offered West two more movies to star with Fields, but she refused, citing the difficulty of working with Fields.  West appeared in her last movie during the studio age with The Heat's On (1943) for Columbia. She remained active during the ensuing years. Among her stage performances was the title role in Catherine Was Great (1944) on Broadway, in which she spoofed the story of Catherine the Great of Russia, surrounding herself with an "imperial guard" of muscular young actors, all over six feet tall. The play was produced by Mike Todd and went on a long national tour in 1945.  She also starred in her own Las Vegas stage show, singing while surrounded by bodybuilders. Many celebrities attended West's show, including Judy Garland, Ethel Merman, Louis Armstrong, Liberace, and Jayne Mansfield (who met, and later married, one of West's muscle men, Mickey Hargitay, after which he was dismissed).  When Billy Wilder offered West the role of Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard, she refused and pronounced herself offended at being asked to play a "has-been," similar to the responses he received from Mary Pickford, Greta Garbo, and Pola Negri. Ultimately the more amenable Gloria Swanson was cast in the role.  In 1958, West appeared at the Academy Awards and performed the song "Baby, It's Cold Outside" with Rock Hudson.  Her autobiography, titled Goodness Had Nothing To Do With It, was published by Prentice-Hall in 1959, and was published again in an updated version in the 1970's. It was again a financial success.  West also made some rare appearances on television, including The Red Skelton Show in 1960. She did a comedy sketch with Skelton regarding her recently published autobiography. Viewers reported astonishment at her youthful appearance and energy. In 1964, she guest starred as herself on the popular sitcom Mister Ed. The episode's ratings were well above usual for the series.  In order to keep her appeal fresh with younger generations, she recorded two Rock and Roll albums, Way Out West and Wild Christmas in the late 1960s. The single "Treat Him Right," from Way Out West, made the album a financial success. She also recorded a number of parody songs including "Santa, Come Up and See Me Sometime," on the album Wild Christmas.  After a 26-year absence from motion pictures, she appeared in the role as Leticia Van Allen in Gore Vidal's Myra Breckinridge (1970) with John Huston, Raquel Welch, Rex Reed, Farrah Fawcett, and Tom Selleck in a small part. This movie failed at the box office, despite popular excitement. It became a camp classic, however, due to its sex change theme.   West made many personal appearances to an enthusiastic audience. In New York, fans were held back by a large number of policemen, including those on horseback, who were there to control the crowd. One fan was led away by police who proclaimed, "I touched Mae West...I touched Mae West!" College students held up signs saying "Mae West fan club."  West recorded another album in the 1970s on MGM Records titled Great Balls of Fire, which covered songs by Elvis Presley, The Beatles, and The Rolling Stones, among others, and her autobiography, Goodness Had Nothing To Do With It, was updated in a new version and republished.  In 1976, she appeared on the The Dick Cavett Show and gave an exclusive interview about her life and career along with insights into her proclivity toward vulgar humor and her battle with censorship. Her appearance on the Dick Cavett special generated great excitement and led to her next movie Sextette. Dick Cavett said Mae was so fantastic that she only had to extend her hand, "to give you a jolt that could be felt in the floorboards. She is the eighth wonder of the world!" This was a statement that Rona Barrett also attributed to Miss West in her widely popular magazines in the 1970s.   At age 85, she returned to the screen for a final time as Marlo Manners in Sextette (1978) with an all-star cast including a cameo by George Raft which provided an odd symmetry to both their long careers. Sextette premiered in Los Angeles and San Franciso (Mae attended both to packed houses) and the film did quite well initially. After a while the box-office fell off, however Crown International Pictures picked "Sextette" up and released it domestically in the United States. New World Pictures released the film internationally. Ringo Starr, her co-star in the movie said that "Mae is so fan-bloody-tastic that she just wipes us out," referring to the rest of the actors in the movie. TV Guide magazine quoted Tony Curtis as saying that "Mae never missed a beat."  Although the movie was not received well by some critics or the general public, After Dark magazine awarded West the "Star of the World" award for her performance in what became her final screen appearance. Sextette has become a cult classic. In fact, Time magazine proclaimed Sextette an "instant classic, sure to be loved by her many fans."  It is a fact that at the premiere of Sextette some fans crawled up telephone poles in order to get a better view of the star. Many drag queens also came to the premiere dressed as Mae West and it was pandemonium. Near the end of her life, she was known for maintaining a surprisingly youthful appearance. She stated in her autobiography that she spent two hours every day massaging cold cream into her breasts to keep them youthful. West continued to surround herself with virile men for the rest of her life, employing companions, bodyguards and chauffeurs.  In the 1970s she was the only star in Hollywood who would allow reporters to search through her hair for signs of cosmetic surgery. They found no signs of this and this forever put to rest rumors of wigs and plastic surgery.  After making Sextette, West did some radio commercials for Poland Springs Drinking Water saying she had been drinking Poland Springs water for 20 years, "...ever since I was six!"  Miss West continued seeing personally to her fan mail and actually corresponded with many of her fans. She listed her phone number in the Los Angeles directory and "Rona Barrett's Hollywood" magazine published her number so her fans could "call her up and see her sometime!"  In the late summer of 1980, she tripped on a rug after getting out of bed, falling and hitting her head. She had a concussion and stroke. Doctors were evenly divided on whether the concussion caused the stroke or she had a stroke which caused her to suffer the fall and concussion. She was rushed to the hospital and rallied. Later Mae would claim she "fell out of bed dreaming about Burt Reynolds." In November, she suffered yet another stroke. The prognosis was not good and she was sent home. She died at her apartment on North Rossmore Avenue in Hollywood at age 87. Many of her fans cried openly and one was quoted as saying, "if she died, it is the end of the world."  Mae West is entombed with her family in Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.

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