Last night at dinner with my friends Angelica Huston and
(each masters of their crafts! I can't say enough about Angelica Houston's last book… at dinner she was telling us stories of tagging along on an in-person interview with #maewest , can you imagine? I'm always in awe of Angelica, but I can't get over the fact that she visited our divine Mae in her apartment...Mae wearing a long powder blue negligee with all of her muscleman attending to her! If you read Angelica's book you get all the witty, colorful accounts of amazing stories like these.)
It's a pity the legendary George Hurrell didn't live long enough to photograph you! I believe the last actress to be so honored was Sherilynn Fenn. In any case, he had a great anecdote about him. He had some cancellations in his studio and was frankly bored and ready to close up when West drove up to his studio and said, "Georgie, my boy! Today is your lucky day!" He smiled and asked why. "Because today, we are going to do nudes!" Hurrell said he practically fell over himself getting ready and after the sitting said aloud, "I can't wait to get to the darkroom to process these!" But West interjected, "Oh, no, Georgie! I'm going down to Florida! These go with me!" She paid him double his fee and took the cans of film with her. I have no idea if they were ever developed.