Mae West. Empress Of Sex.

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Harper Collins
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1991
Edition: First Edition

Description: 422 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. In The Golden Age Of Hollywood Mae West Was The Archetypal Film Star And The Epitome Of Glamour. Blonde And Bosomy, Dripping With Diamonds(and A Wisecrack Permantly On Her Carmined Lips), She Twisted Men Round Her Little Finger On And Off The Screen.

Publishers Description: At Mae Wests film debut her co-star, George Raft, remarked, "She stole everything but the cameras". Approaching fifty this short, plump Brooklynite shot to international fame as an outrageous sex goddess, a role in which she triumphed to the end of her life. Yet, Maes private life was at variance with her fame. Brought up in vaudeville she was as familiar with gangland as she was with the movie studios, but few penetrated her glittering facade, for there were many secrets Mae wanted well-hidden. Possessed of a voracious sexual appetite, had the truth been known, she would have been drummed out of Hollywood. As a playwright she was imprisoned for "corrupting the morals of youth". Overcoming this slur to become queen of the silver screen, and the highest paid woman in America, within ten films she was out on her ear, chief scapegoat of the moral decency brigade. Bowed but not beaten, Mae fought back hard. Packed with previously undisclosed material and unpublished photographs, this biography brings the legendary sex symbol vividly to life.

ISBN: 0002151979