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Mae West
Mary Jane "Mae" West was an American actress, singer, comedian, screenwriter, and playwright whose career spanned more than seven decades. Recognized as a prominent sex symbol of her time, she was known for portraying sexually confident characters and for her use of double entendres, often delivering her lines in a distinctive contralto voice. West began performing in vaudeville and on stage in Ne…
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Born 17 August 1893 · Died 22 November 1980 · Q202878
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2026· 2 entries
The Guardian: The Greatest Showman musical to come alive on the West End stage in 2027
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2017· 1 entry
West was the subject of an episode of the TV series Over My Dead Body on Amazon Prime
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2006· 1 entry
Released album “Come Up and See Me Sometime - 30 Original Mono Recordings 1933-1954”.
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2000· 1 entry
Dirty Blonde, a play about two Mae West fans, opened on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theater
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1999· 1 entry
The American Film Institute ranked her 15th among the greatest female screen legends of classic American cinema
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1996· 1 entry
Released album “I'm No Angel”.
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1987· 1 entry
Released album “Sixteen Sultry Songs Sung By Mae West "Queen Of Sex"”.
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1982· 1 entry
Actress Ann Jillian portrayed West in the television biopic Mae West
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1980· 9 entries
Died 1980-11-22.
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“I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.”
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“When women go wrong, men go right after them.”
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“Good girls go to heaven, but bad girls go everywhere”
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“You're never too old to become younger.”
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“To err is human. But it feels divine.”
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“O casamento é uma grande instituição, mas eu não estou preparada para as instituições.”
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“A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars. That's subtraction.”
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“When you got the personality, you don't need the nudity.”
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1976· 2 entries
Where she was interviewed by Dick Cavett and performed "Frankie and Johnny" and "After You've Gone"
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Appeared on a CBS special, Back Lot U
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1975· 1 entry
West released the books Sex, Health, and ESP and Pleasure Man, the latter based on her 1928 stage play
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1972· 1 entry
Released album “Great Balls of Fire”.
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1971· 1 entry
Was voted "Woman of the Century" by students at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for her outspokenness on sexuality and censorship
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1966· 3 entries
Released the rock-and-roll album Way Out West, followed in 1972 by Great Balls of Fire, which included covers of songs by The Doors and tracks written by English songwriter-producer Ian Whitcomb
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Released album “Wild Christmas”.
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Released album “Way Out West”.
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1965· 1 entry
Recorded two songs, "Am I Too Young" and "He's Good for Me", for a 45 rpm single released by Plaza Records
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1964· 1 entry
Guest-starred on the sitcom Mister Ed
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1959· 2 entries
Released an autobiography, Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It, which became a best-seller
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Which was ultimately not broadcast; CBS executives reportedly felt viewers were not prepared to see a nude marble statue of West that appeared in the segment
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1958· 1 entry
West appeared at the live televised Academy Awards and performed the song "Baby, It's Cold Outside" with Rock Hudson, which received a standing ovation
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1955· 1 entry
Recorded her first LP album, The Fabulous Mae West
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1954· 1 entry
Released ep “Love Is the Greatest Thing”.
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1950· 1 entry
Released album “Album of Mae West Songs”.
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1943· 1 entry
West returned to the stage and nightclubs
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1942· 2 entries
During which Wallace withdrew his request for separate maintenance, and West testified that they had lived together for only "several weeks"
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She obtained a divorce on July 21, 1942, during which Wallace withdrew his request for separate maintenance, and West testified that they had lived together for only "several weeks".
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1939· 1 entry
Universal Studios approached West to star opposite W
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1937· 1 entry
West appeared in two separate sketches on ventriloquist Edgar Bergen's radio show The Chase and Sanborn Hour
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1934· 1 entry
The censorship guidelines of the film industry's Production Code began to be meticulously enforced
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1930· 1 entry
West remained close to her family throughout her life and was especially affected by her mother's death in 1930.
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1927· 1 entry
Was sentenced to 10 days for "corrupting the morals of youth"
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1918· 1 entry
West gained significant attention in the Shubert Brothers revue Sometime, starring opposite Ed Wynn
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1916· 1 entry
West began a relationship with James Timony (1884–1954), an attorney and her manager
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1914· 1 entry
Though this has not been conclusively proven
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1913· 1 entry
West met Guido Deiro (1886–1950), an Italian-born vaudeville star and accordionist
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1912· 1 entry
Played La Petite Daffy, a "baby vamp", in A Winsome Widow
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1911· 2 entries
In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Frank Szatkus (1892–1966), whose stage name was Frank Wallace, a fellow vaudevillian whom she met in 1909
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At age 18, in a revue titled A La Broadway staged by her former dancing teacher, Ned Wayburn
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1893· 2 entries
Born 1893-08-17.
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In either the Greenpoint or Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, before the consolidation of New York City
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1886· 1 entry
With her siblings and parents, Christiana (née Brüning) and Jakob Doelger
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