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Mae West

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Also known as Mary Jane West, Mary West

American actress, singer, screenwriter, and writer (1893–1980)

OverviewAI-generated

Mae West was an American playwright, screenwriter, and actor born in Brooklyn in 1893. She worked in film and television, with a career beginning in 1907. Her notable works include *Three Plays by Mae West*, *She done him wrong*, and *Love as always*. She also wrote under the pseudonym Jane Mast. West was recognized on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

She died in Los Angeles in 1980 from a stroke. West was married to Guido Deiro and sang in the contralto voice type. She spoke English. Her quotes include, "When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad, I'm better." She is similar to artists such as Sophie Tucker and Eddie Cantor.

Synthesized by Vinony from 45 facts across 9 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Wikiquote, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Born
1893
Died
1980
Works
20

Top works

  • Three Plays by Mae West
  • She done him wrong
  • Love as always, Mum xx
  • Project X
  • Love As Always, Mum Xxx

via Open Library + Wikidata

Film & TV

Acting · Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Mae West (born Mary Jane West; August 17, 1893 – November 22, 1980) was an American actress, 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 before moving to Hollywood to become a comedienne, actress and…

Known for

  • Becoming Marilyn2022
  • Mae West: Dirty Blonde — Self (archive footage)2020
  • Becoming Cary Grant — Self (archive footage)2017
  • The Women Who Run Hollywood — Self (archive footage)2016
  • Vito — Self (archive)2011
  • Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression — Self (archive footage)2009
  • Starz Inside: Sex and the Cinema — Self (archive)2009
  • Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood — Tira (archive footage)2008
  • Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema — Self (archive footage)2007
  • Complicated Women — Self (archive footage)2003

via TMDB

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United States
Active from
1893
Active to
1980
african american musiciansbusinesspeoplechipmunk soulchristian hip hopcomposersconscious hip hop

Discography

Official siteDiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
24,325
Total plays
125,548

Tags

jazzfemale vocalists30sswingAll

Similar artists

Sophie TuckerConnee BoswellMarion HarrisLee MorseEddie Cantor

Mae West is the name of two artists: 1) Mae West (August 17, 1893 – November 22, 1980) was an American actress, playwright, screenwriter, and sex symbol. Famous for her bawdy double entendres, West made a name for herself in vaudeville and on the legitimate stage in New York before moving to Hollywood to become a comedian, actress and writer in the motion picture industry. One of the most controversial stars of her day, West encountered many problems including censorship. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Mae+West">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. A Guideline of Selecting and Reporting Intraclass Correlation Coefficients for Reliability Research

    · 2016 · cited 24,973x

  2. A Simple, Positive Semi-Definite, Heteroskedasticity and Autocorrelation Consistent Covariance Matrix

    · 1987 · cited 15,191x

  3. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 10,992x

  4. The behaviour change wheel: A new method for characterising and designing behaviour change interventions

    · 2011 · cited 10,941x

  5. Doing Gender

    · 1987 · cited 8,177x

via Crossref · CC0

Quotes

  • “Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.”
  • “Why don't you come up sometime and see me? … Come on up, I'll tell your fortune.”
  • “Oh, Beulah, Peel me a grape.”
  • “I only like two kinds of men, domestic and foreign.”
  • “When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad, I'm better.”
  • “It's not the men in your life that count, it's the life in your men.”

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

~33 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Mary Jane "Mae" West (August 17, 1893 – November 22, 1980) was an American actress, singer, comedian, screenwriter, and playwright whose career spanned more than seven decades. Recognized as a prominent sex symbol of her time, she was known for portraying sexually confident characters and for her use of double entendres, often delivering her lines in a distinctive contralto voice. West began performing in vaudeville and on stage in New York City before moving on to film in Los Angeles.

She was frequently associated with controversies over censorship and once stated, "I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it." As her film career declined, she remained active by writing books and plays, performing in Las Vegas and London, and appearing on radio and television. In later years, she also released rock and roll recordings. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked her 15th among the greatest female screen legends of classic American cinema.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mae West” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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