Mae West

AKA:
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 Continued
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Play as Source Material
1978
Marlo Manners
1978
Leticia
1970
Play as Source Material
1933
Lady Lou
1933
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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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