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	Mae West - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mae West (August 17, 1893 – November 22, 1980) was an American actress, playwright, screenwriter, and sex symbol.
		Mae West is entombed with her family in Cypress Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.
		West was apparently married April 11, 1911, in Milwaukee, to Frank Wallace, a fellow vaudevillian who, in 1937, showed up in Hollywood with a marriage certificate seeking a share of "their" community property.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mae_West (2331 words)

	Mae West
		Mae West played a stylish woman with sophistication, perhaps a battler, and yet one who was also very interested in men and was confident in their company.
		Mae West was born in Brooklyn in 1893 and lived to 1980.
		Mae West thereby signified what can be interpreted either as sexual liberation or of sexual degeneracy, depending on which political and social ideal that people held.
	www.users.bigpond.com /sarcasmo/sexpolitics/maewest.html (2098 words)

	Guido Deiro: Marriage to Mae West
		Mae West followed and at the end of her act she did an encore by walking on with a dummy accordion (nothing but air in it) and, waving the bellows in and out, she gives an imitation with Guido playing the waltz offstage.
		Mae West was on the same program, doing her own act and appearing in very flimsy attire.
		In New York at the American Roof, Deiro scored "the applause hit in the first half," while Mae West was placed "next to closing, a position Deiro should have had." At Chicago's Palace, when their romance was young, Deiro "came near stopping the show, while Mae West, despite "spots of fun, lets down."
	guidodeiro.com /maewest1.html (1697 words)

	MSN Encarta - Mae West
		Mae West (1892-1980), American actor, a master of the double entendre, known for her portrayals of defiantly sexy women of lost virtue and irreverent wit.
		West returned to the stage with a Broadway revue, Catherine Was Great (1944), later touring in Diamond Lil and finding great success with a glamorous nightclub act.
		With her platinum-blond hair, buxom figure, distinctive walk, and drawling, seductive speech, West became an anti-Puritan icon, both reviled and admired for her disdain of conventional morals.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761559096 (327 words)

	Mae West
		Mae called Mansfield a cheap blonde and Mansfield responded by asking when anyone was going to take a picture of West in a bikini.
		West was a ground-breaker, and someone who understood people all too well - the plays she wrote "The Drag" (with an all-gay cast) and "Sex", were named specifically because she knew the adverse publicity and right-wing outrage would be better than a million dollars of advertising - and she was right.
		West was an original (although elements of her act and persona have been copied by the likes of Bette Midler, Jayne Mansfield and Fran Drescher ever since).
	www.dollsoup.co.uk /mae.htm (403 words)

	(Hall of Fame)
		Mae West was born in 1892 in Brooklyn (Sun in Leo, Moon in Aries), the daughter of a (hold on to your feathered hat) boxer and corset model.
		Mae West died on November 22, 1980 at the age of 88, a true Tart to the end.
		Mae West spent the rest of her life producing, writing, and starring in various plays and musical revues.
	www.tartcity.com /maewest.html (1154 words)

	Hollywood Unmasked - Mae West
		Movie star Mae West was known as the "Queen of Sex, and "The Statue of Libido." She has been credited with doing more for the country than then U.S. President Calvin Coolidge did, with her second highest salary in the country proving it.
		Mae had long admired Earhart for her courage and her mastery of the sky, "a man's world"...and the two pioneers-one in aviation, the other in sexuality- talked about their mutual interest in psychic explorations....
		West has been hailed as a prodigy with insight beyond her years for the simple reason that she wrote and produced many of her movies and stage acts.
	www.goodfight.org /hwmwest.html (1966 words)

	Biography for Mae West
		Mae West and Frank Wallace never shared living quarters; in fact, she denied she was ever married, a story hard to stick to when a marriage license surfaced...
		Mae West was born in Brooklyn, New York to "Battling Jack" West and Matilda Doelger.
		Mae, herself, worked on the stage and in vaudeville from the time she was five years old.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0922213/bio (1912 words)

	Culture Shock: Flashpoints: Theater, Film, and Video: Mae West
		Culture Shock: Flashpoints: Theater, Film, and Video: Mae West
		West's legacy is debated even today: she is hailed by some as a "liberating influence on women's sexuality" and decried by others for her overstated feminine persona.
		She and the Hollywood censors wage constant battles over the content of her scripts, and West adjusts her humor, replacing the directness of her earlier work with innuendo and double entendre that often escape the censors' notice.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/cultureshock/flashpoints/theater/maewest.html (357 words)

	West, Mae on Encyclopedia.com
		First of the Superblondes Gerald Kaufman on Mae West, whose glamorous act was given added zest by her sharp wit
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		WC Fields.The motion picture "My Little Chickadee" premiered in 1940, with Mae West and W.C. Fields starring in the Old
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/w/west-m1ae.asp (831 words)

	Lifetimetv.com: Intimate Portrait
		Mae West will be remembered for many reasons: her incredible capacity to enjoy life; her barrier-breaking writing and performing; her "West-isms" — among which, "Why don't you come up and see me sometime?" is probably the most notable; her beauty; and her contribution to the sexual emancipation of women.
		Born in Brooklyn, New York, on August 17, 1893, Mae West got her first taste of show business at the age of seven, when her mother entered her in a talent contest.
		Mae West was ranked the highest paid woman in 1935 earning $480,833.
	www.lifetimetv.com /shows/ip/portraits/9711/9711_bio.html (562 words)

	Mae West at the Latin Quarter - 1956
		The old belief that everything should be bigger and better, a thought most forcefully pronounced by Hollywood trailers, can be applied with forthright honesty to Mae West, who has returned to the Latin
		Mae West at the Latin Quarter - 1956
		As before, Miss West pretends to have a bona fide romantic interest and her current candidate is Tito Coral, Mexican singer and motion picture actor.
	www.bigbandsandbignames.com /maewest.html (503 words)

	Mae West Biography - Bombshells.Com
		When I'm Bad, I'm Better : Mae West, Sex, and American Entertainment [Book]
		Born on August 17, 1893, Mae West (Mary Jane West) would become the first :sex clown" on film.
		In 1926, Mae wrote, produced and directed the Broadway show, "Sex," which led her to be arrested for obscenity.
	www.bombshells.com /gallery/west/west_bio.php (417 words)

	MAE-West - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Its name officially stands for "Metropolitan Area Exchange, West", although some note the similarity to the name of the actress Mae West.
		MAE-West is a major Internet exchange point located on the west coast of the U.S. in San Jose, California and Los Angeles, California.
		What's MAE, and why is she so slow?
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/MAE-West (89 words)

	Java's Bachelor Pad: Mae West
		Mae West was blonde, brassy, and overtly sexual--a bane to Will H.
		Unfortunately, West's cult status has been boiled down to her famous catch phrase, "Why don't you come up and see me sometime." She was in fact the witty and vivacious shot in the arm that 1930's America needed.
		Call her the Queen of Camp, but no one can deny West's place in the Femme Fatale pantheon.
	javasbachelorpad.com /west.html (175 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Mae West
		By 1935, her combination of glamour, vulgarity, and self-parody had made Mae West the highest paid woman in the United States.
		Writer, stage performer, screen actress, and nightclub entertainer Mae West emerged, a ray of light during the Great Depression, as a uniquely independent, outspoken, flamboyant, and humorously erotic woman.
		The Hays Office, charged with keeping movies wholesome in the wake of a succession of Hollywood sex scandals, was forced to bring in their new production code--the Hays Code--in 1934, expressly to deal with the Mae West problem.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419201294 (832 words)

	Amazon.com: Mae West : An Icon in Black and White : Books: Jill Watts
		Mae West is a clever woman, she never said anything about it, because she couldn't have become a big star, but she's showing us in her films that she may got a little "Black soul" in her.
		Mae West was good at hiding her private life, even though she had a public life, no one really knew the true her.
		I know Mae West was too sexy for a white woman, I always looked at her as a image of a black woman onscreen, if you look at Black actresses of the time, Blacks did those things, not white women, even they couldn't imitate Mae.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195105478?v=glance (2507 words)

	Stage Preview: Mae West show throws actress a curve in "Dirty Blonde"
		Even if you've never seen one of her films, just about everyone knows Mae West was smart and funny and oozed a raw sexuality that made the censors hyperventilate.
		That's really all Dunn knew about West when she was cast as Jo/Mae in Claudia Shear's "Dirty Blonde," a role originated by Shear in her Tony Award-nominated play.
		Dunn continues to marvel that, while West couldn't "hold a candle to other glamour girls of the day," she acted like she was the "bee's knees," a quaint turn of phrase that sounds slightly ironic against the sultry rumble that Dunn slips in for effect.
	www.post-gazette.com /ae/20030605blondeae4.asp (580 words)

	Mae West, "Klondike Annie"
		Mae West's film "Klondike Annie" as described by Ramona Curry: "The film narrative opens in San Francisco's China town, where West's character is held captive as the mistress of a Chinese night club owner, Chan Lo.
		Ramona Curry maps out the negotiation process between MPPDA and the producers of "Klondike Ann" in her article "Mae West as Censored Commodity: The case of "Klondike Annie", Cinema Journal 31, No. 1, Fall 1991.
		For example, West was prohibited from saying, 'I'm sorry I can't see you in private,' while looking the young detective (Phillip Reed) up and down; other West lines that Breen marked for deletion included 'Men are at their best when women are at their worst'...
	www.file-room.org /FileRoom/documents/Cases/81maewest.html (641 words)

	Mae West
		• • Mae West and the self-confessed saloon scholars understood that the Bowery boy and his female counterpart, the "Tough Girl," had to be made amusing before they would be accepted as entertainment.
		Mae West had heard all the stories about the infamous Bowery "resort" near Houston Street, namely McGurk's Suicide Hall [295 Bowery].
		• • Never nominated for an Oscar nor any other entertainment award, Mae West was invited in 1958 to open the ceremony with Rock Hudson.
	maewest.blogspot.com (1388 words)

	Amazon.com: Mae West: Books: Carol M. Ward
		This provocative work analyzes Mae West's long life and productive career in three major phases: the early theater years, her meteoric film career in the thirties, and her subsequent life as a popular culture legend.
		Thus there is a 50 page biography, a re-evaluation of the art of Mae West, re-printed interviews, a bibliographical essay, a list of source information, and a four-part appendix listing her theatre performances, films and discs.
		“Mae West is a valuable piece of work about a much appreciated performer.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0313247161?v=glance (1017 words)

	MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Mae West
		Known for her seductive mannerisms and sharp retorts, in 1935 American actor Mae West became the highest-paid woman actor in the country by flouting traditional morals.
		After a successful career in motion pictures during the 1930s she returned to the stage and a series of nightclub tours.
		She served time in jail on obscenity charges for her 1926 Broadway play Sex.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461523528_761559096_-1_1/Mae_West.html (61 words)

	Mae West Impersonator
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	www.classique-productions.com /pages/PAGE544.HTM (80 words)

	Mae West
		Many movie comediennes have come along after Mae West, but none have equaled her talent.
		Mae was whimsical, sexy, irreverent and ahead of her time.
		Copyright © 1997 - 2004 The Roger Richman Agency, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
	www.hollywoodlegends.com /mae-west.html (113 words)

	British Collectibles - RAF "Mae West" Life Vests
		These were manufactured for issue prior to the introduction of the C02 cartridge-inflating "Mae Wests".
		Wartime photographs from North Africa and the Far East usually show this tropical pattem "Mae West" in use, although it is frequently misidentified as the standard 1932 pattern because from the front they are virtually indistinguishable
		1932 Pattern GREEN life vest: Extremely rare Battle of Britain issue "Mae West", manufactured for the Air Ministry by the Dominion Rubber Company of Canada, and labeled with both RAF and RCAF stores ref. information.
	www.britishmilitaria.com /6_raf_f/20rafmaewestvest.html (315 words)

	Mae West - MovieActors.com
		Mae West dominated the 1930's as a sultry, sexy screen queen, although she was neither pretty nor conventional looking.
		Although West's films (many of which she wrote) were filled with sexual innuendo, and despite the fact that she tended to surround herself with good looking musclemen in her private life, Golden Age Hollywood insiders claim that Mae was always more interested in power than sex.
		Mae's Photos and More * Mae West's Posters * Mae West Collectables
	www.movieactors.com /30stars/mae.htm (123 words)

	Mae West FAQ
		She essentially used it for her own purposes, which was typical of Mae West.
		A. She died on November 22, 1980, in her Ravenswood apartment, after suffering two strokes, one on August 10, 1980, and one on September 18, 1980, according to "Mae West" by George Eels and Stanley Musgrove.
		But Marybeth Hamilton makes a good case that the raid was really made to pressure Miss West to keep one of her other plays off Broadway (and out of NYC at all).
	www.mae-west.org /old/mwfaq.html (1085 words)

	Mae West Remedies Introduction
		That's where it all starts," is a Mae West quotation that suggests a much similar point, and one of the main principles of complementary healing practices is that the cure (often) comes from within out.
		For acute problems Mae West Remedies may be taken for a day or two, or a week or three.
		Mae Surprises could help and/or heal, according to psychosomatic understanding of how many illnesses develop and recede (somewhat).
	oaks.nvg.org /suin.html (10014 words)

	Mae West's portrait
		Mae West (1893-1980) is probably the most famous BBW in film history, as an actress and writer.
		As well as her witty dialogue, she had great style and poise, helped along by some splendid Vera West designed costumes in this particular film.
		She appeared in films from the 1930s up to 1980, writing her own excellent scripts.
	www.ianardo.com /hall3/west.html (123 words)

	VH1.com : Mae West : Biography
		Buxom actress Mae West employed clever double-entendres throughout the course of her long career on stage and screen.
		The actress was born Mary Jane West in Brooklyn, NY, in 1893, although some sources say she was born a year earlier.
		Evidently another of West's oft-quoted remarks was accurate.
	www.vh1.com /artists/az/west_mae/bio.jhtml (487 words)

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