Mae WestAKA:
Jane Mast
,
Mary Jane West
Nationality:
American Birthdate:
08/17/1892 Birthplace:
Brooklyn, New York Death Date:
11/22/1980
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When she was good, she was very good. But when she was bad, she made film history. Whether making films, writing plays or flirting with the camera, Mae West was undisputedly the most controversial sex siren of her time. At 33 years old, she wrote, produced, directed and starred in her first Broadway play entitled “Sex,” a 1926 production deemed so obscene that she landed in jail for it. She was the queen of double entendres on and off screen, delivering some of the best-remembered quips in movie history. In “She Done Him Wrong” (1933), West delivered one of the most quoted lines in movie
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1897
Vaudeville debut at age six doing a song and dance for Brooklyn's Royal Theatre's amateur night; appeared in "Little Nell the Marchioness"
Joined the Hal Clarendon Stock Company based at Brooklyn's Gotham Theatre for four years
Became strong woman in a Coney Island acrobatic act
Toured vaudeville circuit with William Hogan at age fifteen
1911
Broadway debut in "A la Broadway" at Folies Bergere dinner theater
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