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Mae West
When she was good, she was very good. But when she was bad, she made film history. Whether making films, writing plays or flirting with the camera, Mae West was undisputedly the most controversial sex siren of her time. At 33 years old, she wrote, produced, directed and starred in her first Broadway play entitled "Sex," a 1926 production deemed so obscene that she landed in jail for it. She was the queen of double entendres on and off screen, delivering some of the best-remembered quips in movie history. In "She Done Him Wrong" (1933), West delivered one of the most quoted lines in movie history, "Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?"
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Mae West
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25% |
|
Sextette |
Marlo Manners/ Writer |
- | 1978 |
| 24% |
|
Myra Breckinridge | Leticia Van Allen (Character) | - | 1970 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Heats On | Fay Lawrence (Character) | - | 1943 |
| 93% |
|
My Little Chickadee |
Flower Belle Lee (Character), Writer |
- | 1940 |
| 60% | No Score Yet | Every Day's a Holiday |
Peaches O'Day (Character), Screenwriter |
- | 1937 |
| No Score Yet |
|
Klondike Annie |
The Frisco Doll/ Screenwriter |
- | 1936 |
| 60% |
|
Go West, Young Man |
Mavis Arden (Character), Screenwriter |
- | 1936 |
| 50% |
|
Goin' to Town |
Cleo Borden (Character), Screenwriter |
- | 1935 |
| 88% |
|
Belle of the Nineties |
Ruby Carter (Character), Screenwriter |
- | 1934 |
| 93% |
|
I'm No Angel |
Tira (Character), Screenwriter |
- | 1933 |
| 93% |
|
She Done Him Wrong |
Lady Lou (Character), Screenwriter |
- | 1933 |
| 83% |
|
Night After Night | Maudie Triplett (Character) | - | 1932 |