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Mae West (1) (1893–1980)

Autor de Goodness Had Nothing to Do with It

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Conocimiento común

Nombre legal
West, Mary Jane
Otros nombres
Mast, Jane (pseudonym)
Fecha de nacimiento
1893-08-17
Fecha de fallecimiento
1980-11-22
Género
female
Nacionalidad
USA
Lugar de nacimiento
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Lugar de fallecimiento
Los Angeles, California, USA
Lugares de residencia
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA
Ocupaciones
actor
singer
screenwriter
playwright
Premios y honores
American Theatre Hall of Fame
Biografía breve
Although Mae West is best known as a Hollywood screen icon, she was also a playwright. Born in Brooklyn, New York, she first made a name for herself in New York and on the vaudeville stage before she ventured into films. As a playwright, she used the pen name "Jane Mast." Her first produced play, in which she also starred, was a racy comedy-drama entitled Sex, which opened on Broadway in 1926. It was popular, but was shut down after 375 performances by the New York Police Department, and West was jailed for 10 days for obscenity and fined $500. The publicity made her famous as a "bad girl." She then wrote The Drag (1927), a drama about homosexuality that was also a success with the public but shut down by the authorities out of town -- it never made it to Broadway. West re-worked The Drag into a 1928 drama/mystery called The Pleasure Man, replacing the lead role with a heterosexual character. However, the New York police raided this show, too, and the entire cast was charged with indecency. Finally, West found success on Broadway with the hit Diamond Lil (1928); she adapted it into the 1933 film She Done Him Wrong.
West also wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for
Every Day's a Holiday (1937),

Goin' to Town (1935),

I'm No Angel (1933),
Klondike Annie (1936), and My Little Chickadee (1940). She was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.

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111/2020. The tale of prohibition era anti-heroine Babe Gordon who climbs the New York social ladder wrong by wrong, using and discarding the people around her as she ascends.

Not nearly as well written as She Done Him Wrong, mostly because the pacing is less tight and satirical humour absent, but there are passably realistic characters and a functional plot, which includes scrutiny of the racist hypocrisies of white culture (and the contemporary construction of "whiteness" as a category).

A book for readers who can't get enough pre-war pulp fiction written from an anti-heroine's point of view.
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½
 
Denunciada
spiralsheep | Aug 23, 2020 |
Highly entertaining autobiography, totally captures Mae's voice and attitude.
 
Denunciada
mrsfiskeandco | otra reseña | May 26, 2012 |
As witty and as foxy as you would expect the autobiography of Mae West to be.
 
Denunciada
comradesara | otra reseña | Jul 19, 2007 |

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Obras
25
También por
12
Miembros
288
Popularidad
#81,142
Valoración
½ 3.4
Reseñas
3
ISBNs
31
Idiomas
1
Favorito
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