SHE ALWAYS KNEW HOW.: Mae West A Personal Biography
New York London, Published by Simon and Schuster. 2009. 8vo. pp.x + 317, index with black & white photographs.some uniform toning to pages and browning to fore edges else very good in quarter black cloth hardcover in pictorial dust wrapper. Item #194998
Biographer Charlotte Chandler draws on a series of interviews she conducted with the star just months before her death in 1980, as well as interviews with people who worked or lived with her. Actress, playwright, screenwriter, and iconic sex symbol Mae West created a scandal--and a sensation--on Broadway with her play Sex in 1926. Sentenced to ten days in prison for obscenity, she went in a convict and emerged a star. Her next play, Diamond Lil, was a smash, and she would play variations on Diamond Lil for virtually her entire career. In 1930s C.
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