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Mae West lived in the penthouse from its 1930 opening until her 1980 death. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] West, who invested in property throughout the Los Angeles area, bought the building when the management barred her then-boyfriend, African American boxer William "Gorilla" Jones , from entering the premises. [ 6 ]
In 2017, Mae West was the subject of an episode of the TV comedy series Over My Dead Body on Amazon Prime. [152] West was the subject of the 2020 PBS documentary Mae West: Dirty Blonde as part of their American Masters series. The documentary was produced by Bette Midler. [153] A May West is a Canadian dessert cake named after West. In the ...
I'm No Angel is a 1933 American pre-Code black comedy film directed by Wesley Ruggles, and starring Mae West and Cary Grant.West received sole story and screenplay credit. It is one of her early films, and, as such, was not subjected to the heavy censorship that dogged her screenplays after Hollywood began enforcing the Hays Code.
There weren’t many individuals in old Hollywood like Mae West, a bold comic performer who was at least 50 years ahead of her time in terms of her material and command of her career. She was born ...
She Done Him Wrong is a 1933 pre-Code American crime/comedy film starring Mae West and Cary Grant, directed by Lowell Sherman.The plot includes melodramatic and musical elements, with a supporting cast featuring Owen Moore, Gilbert Roland, Noah Beery Sr., Rochelle Hudson, and Louise Beavers.
Sex is a 1926 play written by and starring Mae West, who used the pen name "Jane Mast". [1] Staged on Broadway, the play received bad reviews, but was a commercial success.. It was eventually shut down by the New York City Police Department due to obscenity, and West was sentenced to 10 days in jail because of
The events stirred the media and the Evening Post ran the headline "Mae West raid open crusade to purify stage; mayor Walker alleged sponsor of drive to purify Broadway". An injunction allowed for a matinee performance the next day, but even with some bits of the show cut out, it was raided again, this time during the performance, and the cast ...
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