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Mary Jane "Mae" West (August 17, 1893 – November 22, 1980) was an American actress, singer, playwright, screenwriter, and sex symbol whose entertainment career spanned seven decades.
Known for her bawdy double entendres, West made a name for herself in vaudeville and on the stage in New York City before moving to Hollywood to become a comedienne, actress, and writer in the motion picture industry. For her contributions to American cinema, the American Film Institute named West 15th among the greatest female stars of classic American cinema.
One of the more controversial movie stars of her day, West encountered many problems, including censorship. When her cinematic career ended, she continued to perform in Las Vegas, in the United Kingdom, and on radio and television, and to record rock and roll albums. Asked about the various efforts to impede her career, West replied: "I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it."
West was born Mary Jane West in Bushwick, Brooklyn on August 17, 1893, having been delivered at home by an aunt who was a midwife. She was the eldest surviving child of John Patrick West and Matilda "Tillie" Delker (sometimes spelled "Dilker"), who, with her five siblings, had emigrated with their parents, Jacob and Christiana, from the German state of Bavaria in 1886. West's parents married on January 18, 1889, in Brooklyn and reared their children as Protestants, although John West was of mixed Catholic-Protestant descent. Her father was a prizefighter known as "Battlin' Jack West" who later worked as a "special policeman", and later had his own private investigations agency. Her mother was a former corset and fashion model. Her paternal grandmother, Mary Jane (née Copley), for whom she was named, was of Irish Catholic descent, and West's paternal grandfather, John Edwin West, was of English-Scots descent and a ship's rigger.
Born in a working-class section of Brooklyn, she became a show-business giant, a personality so distinctive she transformed forever the way women and sex would be presented on stage, in films, radio, TV and cabarets around the world. Subscribe for more Hollywood biographies and stories! http://bit.ly/HollywoodCollectionSub Included in this retrospective are clips from such films as Night After Night, She Done Him Wrong, I’m No Angel, Belle of the Nineties, Klondike Annie, Go West Young Man, Every Day’s a Holiday, and the evergreen My Little Chickadee. Also included are period archival footage, rare home movies, vintage stills, and interviews with Anthony Quinn, Robert Osborne, Rex Reed, and others.
The glamorous Mae West creates an outrageously funny situation dancing the jitterbug from the film.. "The Heat's On" 1943.
Why don't you come on up and fuck me in the ass sometime? To those who wants to take a look at who Mae West was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJS670okmZc
Bette Davis and Mae West discuss men, marriage, lesbianism, and more! Dinner party recording from 1973. 0:00 West on having to hide men in her closet because they all lived in the same building 1:13 Davis on her husband who died and being married four times 2:24 Davis on being roasted on the Dean Martin Show 2:53 Davis on her upbringing and her daughter 2:38 Davis on the husband and men who beat her up 4:10 Davis on lesbianism and trying to be a lesbian 4:44 West on whether she would marry again and always having a man 5:07 Davis on never being in love 5:30 Davis on her sex life and not standing men as husbands 5:50 Davis on how she was as a wife and how she'll never marry again 6:43 West and Davis on having to support their husbands financially 7:25 West and Davis on not wanting children
Why did silent screen star Mae West send Bette Midler a cease and desist letter? Rachael Ray is about to find out.
Subscribe to TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/sxaw6h Subscribe to COMING SOON: http://bit.ly/H2vZUn Subscribe to CLASSIC TRAILERS: http://bit.ly/1u43jDe Like us on FACEBOOK: http://goo.gl/dHs73 Follow us on TWITTER: http://bit.ly/1ghOWmt Sextette (1978) Official Trailer # 1 - Mae West HD Marlo Manners is enjoying her honeymoon with Sir Michael Barrington, husband number 6. As luck would have it, an international conference is taking place in the same hotel and one of Marlo's former husbands is threatening to derail the negotiations unless he can have one more fling with his ex Cast: Timothy Dalton: http://j.mp/UbFZQv Tony Curtis: http://j.mp/UoF46b George Hamilton: http://j.mp/Vobaux Ian Abercrombie: http://j.mp/PH47hz Director: Ken Hughes Producer: Robert Sullivan Harry Weiss Warner G. Toub D...
ENTER MAE WEST. 1982's Television Movie with Bridgette Andersen as YOUNG MAE WEST
The glamorous Mae West creates an outrageously funny situation dancing the jitterbug from the film.. "The Heat's On" 1943.
Born in a working-class section of Brooklyn, she became a show-business giant, a personality so distinctive she transformed forever the way women and sex would be presented on stage, in films, radio, TV and cabarets around the world. Subscribe for more Hollywood biographies and stories! http://bit.ly/HollywoodCollectionSub Included in this retrospective are clips from such films as Night After Night, She Done Him Wrong, I’m No Angel, Belle of the Nineties, Klondike Annie, Go West Young Man, Every Day’s a Holiday, and the evergreen My Little Chickadee. Also included are period archival footage, rare home movies, vintage stills, and interviews with Anthony Quinn, Robert Osborne, Rex Reed, and others.
Two interviews of Mae West from her trip to England in 1947. She was there to perform "Diamond Lil" in the UK tour. This was her first and only trip abroad.
This is 72-year-old Mae West, the legendary sexy symbol of early Hollywood, singing The Beatles' "Day Tripper." It appeared on West's 1966 album "Way Out West." The backing band was an outfit that went by the name Somebody's Chyldren.
Born in a working-class section of Brooklyn, she became a show-business giant, a personality so distinctive she transformed forever the way women and sex would be presented on stage, in films, radio, TV and cabarets around the world. Subscribe for more Hollywood biographies and stories! http://bit.ly/HollywoodCollectionSub Included in this retrospective are clips from such films as Night After Night, She Done Him Wrong, I’m No Angel, Belle of the Nineties, Klondike Annie, Go West Young Man, Every Day’s a Holiday, and the evergreen My Little Chickadee. Also included are period archival footage, rare home movies, vintage stills, and interviews with Anthony Quinn, Robert Osborne, Rex Reed, and others.
ENTER MAE WEST. 1982's Television Movie with Bridgette Andersen as YOUNG MAE WEST
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Two interviews of Mae West from her trip to England in 1947. She was there to perform "Diamond Lil" in the UK tour. This was her first and only trip abroad.
Why did silent screen star Mae West send Bette Midler a cease and desist letter? Rachael Ray is about to find out.
From the archives of the UCLA Communications Studies Department. Digitized 2013. The views and ideas expressed in these videos are not necessarily shared by the University of California, or by the UCLA Communication Studies Department.
Charles Pierce discusses his life and career, including impressions of Mae West and Bette Davis, in this rare TV interview with cable TV host Skip E Lowe from 1987.
Mae West Sings: He's Good For Me
Unissued / unused footage - dates and locations unknown or unclear. Cuts from newsreel story 47/76 - MAE WEST ARRIVES IN THIS COUNTRY. Extreme C/U of Mae West. C/U of Salvation Army man - he seems to be avoiding the camera and runs away (perhaps he was supposed to be somewhere else!). Brief shot of John Parsons assisting Mae West as she steps off the gangplank of the boat. Very light shots of Mae - she really is amazing! Shots of photographers taking photos of Mae. We then see various shots of another woman, posing for photographers and looking rather anxious. Obviously a well-known person in her own right, probably travelling on the same ship as Mae West, but not recognised by this cataloguer. Could be an actress, but not of the high-glamour variety. (Any information gra...
Via http://boyculture.com On February 10, 2012, Raquel Welch sits for a Q&A; with Simon Doonan at Film Society of Lincoln Center and speaks about meeting Mae West—including an impromptu impersonation. http://facebook.com/matthewrettenmund http://twitter.com/mattrett http://boyculture.com
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