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A Short Biography of Mae West

Author Name:

Mae West

Born As:

Mary Jane West

Other Names:

Born:

17 Aug 1892

Died:

22 Nov 1980




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Actress, comedienne, playwright, screenwriter and sex symbol                          
Selected Works:

Films:

Night After Night  - 1932
She Done Him Wrong  - 1933
I'm No Angel  - 1933
Belle of the Nineties  - 1934
Goin' To Town  - 1935
Klondike Annie  - 1936
Go West, Young Man  - 1936
Every Day's a Holiday  - 1937
My Little Chickadee  - 1940
The Heat's On  - 1943
Myra Breckinridge  - 1970 
Sextette  - 1978 

Stage:

The Ruby Ring  - 1921, The Hussy  - 1922, The Chick  - 1924 These were registered for copyright but never produced.
Sex  - 1926
The Wicked Age  - 1927
The Drag  - 1927
The Pleasure Man  - 1928
Diamond Lil  - 1928, revised 1964
Frisco Kate  - 1930
The Constant Sinner  - 1931
Catherine Was Great  - 1944
Come On Over  - 1946
Sextette  - 1952, revised 1961

Books:

Babe Gordon  - 1930  - novelization of The Constant Sinner
Diamond Lil  - 1932  - novelization of play
Goodness Had Nothing to Do with It  - 1959, revised 1970
Mae West On Sex, Health and ESP  - 1975
Pleasure Man  - 1975.                          
Mother  Matilda Delker-Doelger
Father John Patrick West, one brother John Edwin West, 1900-1964 and one sister Mildred Katherine West 1898-1982

First husband Frank Szatkus - stage name Frank Wallace - 1911–1942
Second husband Guido Deiro - Bigamy? - 1914–1920
Partner	Paul Novak - 1954–1980                          
Vaudevillian at age 14.

Wrote, produced and directed a Broadway show called "Sex" and landed in jail on obscenity charges - 1926.

"Drag", was banned on Broadway because it dealt with homosexuality - in 1927.

It has been thought the Hays Censorship Code - 1934 was brought about by Mae West. Mae West then starred in: 
I'm No Angel - 1933
Belle of the Nineties - 1934
Goin' to Town - 1935
Klondike Annie - 1936                          
Management at her apartment building barred the entry of her boyfriend William Jones, an African-American boxer. 

Mae West bought the building.