Mae West

Mary Jane (Mae) West (Brooklyn, New York City, 1893 - August 17, Hollywood, California, november 22, 1980) was an American actress, screenwriter, playwright and sex symbol, which in the 1930s with her suggestive and sexual dialogues became very popular, but also caused much controversy. These dialogues often explored the limits of what allowed the censorship . She wrote all her texts themselves. Some of these one-liners (e.g. Come up an ' see me some time and Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?) are still regularly cited.



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[hide] *1 Biography  ==Biography[ Edit] == Mae West was born in Brooklyn. Her father was a professional Boxer, Battlin' Jack West and better known as her mother Maltilda Doelger was model. She performed all on her fifth in the vaudeville. A few years later she would occur in the revue under The name "The Baby Vamp". They wouldn't be here as the first on the scene have danced the shimmy .
 * 1.1 Film successes and censorship
 * 1.2 later years
 * 2 Trivia
 * 3 Filmography
 * 4 external link

They later worked on Broadway as an actress and playwright. Sex from 1926, her first play, was written, produced and directed by herself. The piece was, however, very controversial and Mae West was eventually arrested and convicted of obscene behavior. She had to spend ten days in prison on Welfare Island. Her second play, The Drag from 1927, was about homosexuality. The piece should be played not on Broadway, making the public to New Jersey had to to see it. Also this piece was a hit. In1928, she played again on Broadway in Diamond Lil. The character they played, the brutal, spicy and sarcastic blonde who clearly enjoy sex and flirting, would be its trading attribute; most of her next roles are derived from Diamond Lil. The piece grew into her most successful play. ===Movie successes and censorship[ Edit] === Mae West (born 1933)Cary Grant and M West in I'm no AngelThe Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA, later the MPAA), an Association of film studio's that then as target American film free of "amoral and obscene" to keep things like sex and violence, was trying to avoid Mae West, notorious for her provocative and sexual plays, went to work in the film. Paramountin early 1930sthreatened to hit bankruptcy, however, took the risk to adopt her. In 1932, she signed a contract and she made her filmdebut with a small role in Night After Night, oppositeGeorge Raft.

They soon developed to the most profitable artist of the studio and it is often said that in its own Paramount saved from destruction. The first film in which she played the leading role, She Done Him Wrong from 1933, based on "Diamond Lil", had cost a multiple of what brought this. The film made the then unknown actor Cary Grant a star and was nominated for the Oscar for Best Film. That same year would play together again, now in West and Grant it likewise successful I'm No Angel. The success of her films made West so powerful, that they at some point a portion of the proceeds from a movie could claim. This was only reserved for a handful of stars, including the Marx Brothers.In 1935 she was become the best paid woman in the United States.

However, the censorship to pulled In 1933. Will Hays, Chairman of the MPPDA, suggested in the Production Code, a form of self-censorship. It is often suggested that Mae Wests first two movies She Done Him Wrong and I'm No Angel played an important role in the decision-making process of this Code. In 1934 there were more restrictions imposed to the motion picture industry, partly under pressure from religious organisations such as the Catholic Legion of Decency, which went against her films. There was also a strong possibility that the Government of Roosevelt itself with national censorship laws would come. Belle of the Nineties, 1934 Mae Wests, was rewritten and mounted again in order to be approved by the Production Code. As a result of this Code were the texts of West more ambiguous, so they could come back by the censorship. Movies likeKlondike Annie and Go West Young Man (both 1936) were still sharp and popular, despite the censorship.

West end of the 1930s was banned from the radio after a guest appearance on the radio show of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and his dummy Charlie McCarthy, in which they flirted with the doll and made sexually suggestive comments. ===Later years<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === Mae West in 1973<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1940 she starred alongside W.C. Fields in the successful film My Little Chickadee. It was common knowledge that the two stars could not get along with each other. Her popularity in the 1940s was no longer as high as in the thirties and the censorship was stricter. After The heat's practice On from 1943 she stopped movies and she went thenight clubs and in the theater, where less censorship prevailed and they had more artistic freedom . She performed in England and Las Vegas. During her performance in Vegas left them surrounded by bodybuilders and she sang for her audience. The show was a great success and held some years stand.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1959, she wrote her autobiography Goodness Had Nothing To Do With It. In the 1970s she appeared in two more movies, Myra Breckinridge and Sextette from 1970 from1978. Mae West died In 1980 after a series of strokes at the age of 87 in Hollywood. She was buried in New York.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Mae West was probably one time married, with Frank Wallace of 11 april 1911 to July 21, 1942. She has always denied to have been married to him and the two have never lived together. Yet she separated from him in 1942. ==Trivia<span class="mw-editsection" len="321" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Filmography<span class="mw-editsection" len="326" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Allied soldiers during the Second World War named their inflatable life jackets "Mae Wests", probably because the vest is reminiscent of the great bosom of the actress.
 * The work of art ' the lips of Salvador Dalí 's Mae West ' has made her probably still more famous than she already was. It is a pink silk bank in the form of a voluptuous mouth.