Mae West

Standard Name: West, Mae

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Features Liz Lochhead
Beginning with a rap'bout being a woman,
Lochhead, Liz. True Confessions and New Clichés. Polygon Books, 1985.
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the revue explores many facets of a woman's life, from her dramas, her traumas, and her fiascos to her fainting spasms; / the ins-and-outs of her...

Timeline

9 February 1927: New York city police raided Mae West's sensational...

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9 February 1927

New York city police raided Mae West 's sensational drama Sex, which had been playing on Broadway for over a year.
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Schlissel, Lillian, and Mae West. “Introduction”. Three Plays by Mae West, Routledge, 1997.
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1 October 1928: Another Broadway production by Mae West,...

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1 October 1928

Another Broadway production by Mae West , The Pleasure Man, was raided by New York city police.
Schlissel, Lillian, and Mae West. “Introduction”. Three Plays by Mae West, Routledge, 1997.
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1933: A year after her move to Hollywood, Mae West...

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1933

A year after her move to Hollywood, Mae West starred in She Done Him Wrong, and spoke one of her catch-phrase lines, Come up and see me sometime.
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Texts

Schlissel, Lillian, and Mae West. “Introduction”. Three Plays by Mae West, Routledge, 1997.