Mae West's biography

Mae West is 87 years old playwright born at United States of America. She was born on Thursday 17th of August 1893. She is often nicknamed as The Queen of the WorldThe Statue of Libido. According to year of birth 1893 she belongs to Lost Generation. Birthday on 17th of August means she is Leo. As sign in itself indicates “Lion” or “King”, hence people born under Leo sign are considered to be leaders in every aspects of life. They are royal in nature.

She is native english speaker. She is citizen of United States of America. Her primary profession is to be playwright. You can know her also as television actor, film actor, screenwriter, singer, writer, stage actor, comedian, autobiographer. She is recently known as actor.

Mae West's schools

Detailed informations about her schools

Attended and graduated from Brooklyn's Erasmus Hall High School (1911), as did silent film star Norma Talmadge.

Mae West's career

Her main focus is to be playwright.

How did Mae West die

She died on on Saturday 22nd of November 1980 when he was 87 years old. Mae Wests death was caused by complications from strokes. It happend like natural causes.

Awards and competitions

Mae West's Awards

She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1560 Vine Street in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.

What Mae West has done for a first time

She was with George Raft in both her first (Night After Night (1932)) and last (Sextette (1977)) film.
Appears on sleeve of The Beatles "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". West at first declined to be pictured on the cover ("What would I be doing in a lonely hearts club?!"), but reconsidered when The Beatles sent her a handwritten personal request.
She was one of the first women to consistently write the movies she starred in.
Made her first professional appearances at Neir's Tavern (which opened in 1829 and is currently extant) in Woodhaven, Queens, New York.
Mae West first met William Gorilla Jones in 1928 at a New York nightclub. Mae was age 36 and William was age 22.
Mae's first starring role was in She Done Him Wrong which she wrote both the story and dialogue .while her screen debut had been in Night After Night. with George Raft.

Mae West's quotes

It's better to be looked over than overlooked.
A hard man is good to find.
Men are my life, diamonds are my career!
When women go wrong, men go right after them!
When caught between two evils I generally pick the one I've never tried before.
When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad, I'm better.
Marriage is a great institution. I'm not ready for an institution.
It's not the man in your life that counts. It's the life in your man.
Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?
I believe in censorship. After all, I made a fortune out of it.
I only like two kinds of men: Foreign and Domestic.
Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.
Don't marry a man to reform him. That's what reform schools are for.
It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
I wrote the story myself. It's all about a girl who lost her reputation but never missed it.
It ain't sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
Good girls go to heaven. Bad girls go everywhere else.
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
[on desire] Sex is an emotion in motion . . . love is what you make it and who you make it with.
I do all my writing in bed; everybody knows I do my best work there.
To err is human, but it feels divine.
Few men know how to kiss well. Fortunately, I've always had time to teach them.
I always save one boyfriend for a rainy day . . . and another in case it doesn't rain.
Why don't you come up sometime and see me? I'm home every evening . . . Come up, and I'll tell your fortune.
I freely chose the kind of life I led because I was convinced that a woman has as much right as a man to live the way she does if she does no actual harm to society.
The man I don't like doesn't exist.
I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.
I'm not good and tired, just tired.
Men are easy to get but hard to keep.
[on style] It's all right for a perfect stranger to kiss your hand as long as he's perfect.
[on love] A man's kiss is his signature.
[on growth] He who hesitates is a damn fool.
A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.
[on Marilyn Monroe] The only gal who came near to me in the sex appeal department was pretty little Marilyn Monroe. All the others had were big boobs.
My advice for those gals who think they have to take their clothes off to be a star is: baby, once you've boned, what's left to create an illusion? Let 'em wonder .I never believed in givin' 'em too much of me.
Virtue has its own reward, but has no sale at the box office.
[on her father, prizefighter Jack West] Cruel . . . I took a dislike to him.

Mae West's body shape

Lets describe how Mae West looks. We will focus on her body shape. Body build is average.

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