Who is Mae West?
Mae West was an American actress, playwright, and screenwriter famed for her provocative and outspoken manner. Her career spanned seven decades, during which she performed in vaudeville, on Broadway, in Hollywood films, in Las Vegas, and on Rock and Roll albums. Mae West was famous for her double entendres and sometimes inserted her own extemporized lines into a script. Mae West was born Mary Jane West on 17 August 1893 in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of a prize fighter and a corset model. Her father, John Patrick West, would later become a police officer and a private detective. Mae West had two younger siblings. Mae West began performing on the vaudeville stage at the age of twelve, when she was billed as The Baby Vamp. She soon began writing for the stage under the pseudonym Jane Mast, making her Broadway debut in 1926 as the star of her own play, Sex. Though the play was popular, it was shut down after about a year and Mae West was arrested on obscenity charges. Her ten-day pri
