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MAE WEST

Mae West

(New York City, April 9th 1927)

The larger-than-life actress and seductress, Mae West, was found guilty of obscenity and jailed for 10 days in 1927. The Society for the Suppression of Vice had complained to police authorities about her popular first play "Sex" which she not only starred in, but also wrote, directed and produced. Most complaints arose, not from the script, but from her "crude" improvisations during the performance.

The diminutive Miss West, famous for witticisms such as, "It's not the men in my life that count; it's the life in my men," went on to become a hugely successful sex symbol and film star - by 1935 she was the highest-paid woman in the US

Her ample figure was so famous, pilots and sailors named their inflatable life jackets after the buxom star.



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