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Mae-West

Mae West

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119 years old
Bushwick, New York
United States
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Mary Jane West

Partner: Paul Novak (1954–1980)

Did We Miss Any?

Actress

Sextette (1978)

Myra Breckinridge (1970)

The Heat's On (1943)

My Little Chickadee (1940)

Every Day's a Holiday (1937)

Go West Young Man (1936)

Klondike Annie (1936)

Goin' to Town (1935)

Belle of the Nineties (1934)

I'm No Angel (1933)

She Done Him Wrong (1933)

Night After Night (1932)

Writer

Sextette (play "Sextet") (1978)

My Little Chickadee (original screen play) (1940)

Every Day's a Holiday (screen play) (1937)

Go West Young Man (screenplay) (1936)

Klondike Annie (play/screenplay) (1936)

Goin' to Town (screenplay) (1935)

Belle of the Nineties (story "It Ain't No Sin") (1934)

I'm No Angel (dialogue/screenplay/story) (1933)

She Done Him Wrong (by) (1933)

Night After Night (additional dialogue - uncredited) (1932)

Appearances

Backlot USA (1976) (TV)

"Mister Ed" (1 episode, 1964)

"The Red Skelton Show" (1 episode, 1960)

Person to Person (1 episode, 1959)

The 30th Annual The Academy Awards 1958 (TV)

The Fashion Side of Hollywood (1935)

Hollywood on Parade No. B-5 (1933)

Hollywood on Parade No. A-9 (1933) (uncredited)

Golden Apple Awards

1969 Won Golden Apple Female Star of the Year

Walk of Fame (Hollywood)

Star on the Walk of Fame Motion Picture At 1560 Vine Street

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It's better to be looked over than overlooked.

A hard man is good to find.

Men are my life, diamonds are my career!

When women go wrong, men go right after them!

When caught between two evils I generally pick the one I've never tried before.

When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad, I'm better.

Marriage is a great institution. I'm not ready for an institution.

It's not the man in your life that counts. It's the life in your man.

Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?

I believe in censorship. After all, I made a fortune out of it.

I only like two kinds of men: domestic and foreign.

Too much of a good thing is wonderful.

I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.

Don't marry a man to reform him. That's what reform schools are for.

It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.

I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.

It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.

Good girls go to heaven. Bad girls go everywhere else.

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

On desire: Sex is an emotion in motion....love is what you make it and who you make it with.

I do all my writing in bed; everybody knows I do my best work there.

To err is human, but it feels divine.

Few men know how to kiss well. Fortunately, I've always had time to teach them.

I always save one boyfriend for a rainy day . . . and another in case it doesn't rain.

Why don't you come sometime and see me? I'm home every evening . . . Come up, and I'll tell your fortune.

I freely chose the kind of life I led because I was convinced that a woman has as much right as a man to live the way she does if she does no actual harm to society.

The man I don't like doesn't exist.

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.

It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.

I'm not good and tired, just tired.

Men are easy to get but hard to keep.

On style: It's all right for a perfect stranger to kiss your hand as long as he's perfect.

On love: A man's kiss is his signature.

On growth: He who hesitates is a damn fool.

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Despite being famous for her risque films of the early 1930s, Mae West should more properly be known as an early feminist and gay-rights activist.

She began in Vaudeville in 1905 at the age of twelve, and is reputed to have invented the "shimmy" dance in 1913 to accompany the song "Everybody Shimmies Now."

Sex (1926) brought her up on obscenity charges (she was sentenced to ten days in jail), while The Drag (1927), a play about homosexuality, was banned outright from Broadway.

It was the play Diamond Lil (1928) that catapulted her to fame, inventing the iconic persona of the racy, blonde bombshell whose every line is a double entendre.

West became more of an icon than a performer; during World War II, inflatable life jackets were referred to as "Mae Wests."

West died from complications after a stroke in 1980.

After two years of denying that she had ever been married, West admitted in a reply to a legal interrogatory in 1937 that she and Frank Wallace had married in 1911. During her divorce trial in 1942, she testified that they had lived together only "several weeks".

According to actor Tony Curtis, her famous walk originated while beginning her career as a stage actress. Special six-inch platforms were attached to her shoes to increase the height of her stage presence. Her walk literally was "one foot at a time."

Appears on sleeve of The Beatles "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". West at first declined to be pictured on the cover ("What would I be doing in a lonely hearts club?!"), but reconsidered when the Beatles sent her a handwritten personal request.

According to psychic Kenny Kingston, she wrote all her plays while in a trance.

At one point, her chauffeur was Jerry Orbach (who is best known for playing Detective Lennie Briscoe on all four "Law & Order" TV series.

One of the first women to consistently write the movies she starred in.

Once when she was scheduled to play a theater in New Haven, CT, the theater's management refused to let her go on because her act was too "risqué" and canceled the show. Disappointed Yale University students rioted and wrecked the theater.

Was not a smoker or a drinker.

Suffered from diabetes the last 15 years of her life.

Turned down a role in Elvis Presley's film Roustabout (1964), which eventually went to Barbara Stanwyck.

Was at one point Hollywood's highest paid star.

The Coca-Cola bottle was said to have been designed with Mae West's figure as inspiration.

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