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Mae West (I) (1893–1980)
Mae West was born in Queens, New York, to "Battling Jack" West and Matilda Doelger. She began her career as a child star in vaudeville, and later went on to write her own plays, including "SEX", for which she was arrested. Though her first movie role was a small part in Night After Night (1932), her scene has become famous. A coat check girl ...
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2009
Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression
(Video documentary) (performer: "They Call Me Sister Honky-Tonk", "I Found a New Way to Go to Town", "I Want You, I Need You" - uncredited)
1977
Sextette
(performer: "Love Will Keep Us Together", "After You've Gone", "Happy Birthday Twenty One")
1937
Every Day's a Holiday
(performer: "Jubilee" (uncredited), "Fifi", "Little Butterfly", "Every Day's a Holiday" (uncredited), "Along the Broadway Trail" (uncredited))
1936
Klondike Annie
(performer: "My Medicine Man" (uncredited), "Cheer Up, Little Sister", "It's Better to Give Than to Receive", "I'm an Occidental Woman in an Oriental Mood for Love", "Mister Deep Blue Sea", "Little Bar Butterfly")
1935
Goin' to Town
(performer: "HE'S A BAD MAN", "NOW I'M A LADY", "MON COEUR S'OEUVRE A TA VOIX", "LOVE IS LOVE")
1934
Belle of the Nineties
(performer: "Memphis Blues", "My Old Flame", "Troubled Waters", "When a St. Louis Woman Goes Down to New Orleans" - uncredited)
1933
I'm No Angel
(performer: "They Call Me Sister Honky-Tonk" (1933), "That Dallas Man" (1933), "I Found a New Way to Go to Town" (1933), "I Want You, I Need You" (1933), "I'm No Angel" (1933) - uncredited)
1933
She Done Him Wrong
(performer: "I Wonder Where My Easy Rider's Gone" (1933), "A Guy What Takes His Time" (1933), "Frankie and Johnny" (1912) - uncredited)
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Actress (13 credits)
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Writer (10 credits)
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Self (9 credits)
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Archive footage (53 credits)
Archive footage (53 credits)
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Stage: Wrote / appeared in "Diamond Lil" on Broadway. Comedy/melodrama (revival). See more »Publicity Listings:
1 Biographical Movie | 15 Print Biographies | 12 Portrayals | 5 Interviews | 9 Articles | 15 Pictorials | 31 Magazine Cover Photos | See more »Alternate Names:
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5' (1.52 m)
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Virtue has its own reward, but has no sale at the box office. See more »Trivia:
Playing opposite Ed Wynn in Arthur Hammerstein's "Sometime," with music by Rudolf Friml, she introduced the shimmy to the Broadway stage in 1918. The dance requires hardly any movement of the feet but continuous movement of the shoulders, torso and pelvis. She had seen the dance at black cafés in Chicago. See more »Trademark:
Rampant double entendres. See more »Nickname:
"The Statue of Libido" See more »Star Sign:
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