Mae West - One Smart Dame!

For those of you who like to hide behind a computer screen, write and undermine actresses you know nothing about - LEAVE MAE WEST ALONE!

I am female and have been a Mae West fan for decades since I was a kid watching her movies late at night in the 1970s when we only had a few TV stations. Mae introduced me at a young age to classic films and through the years, I watched, collected books, tapes, DVDs and trivia about Mae and other classic Hollywood actresses, actors and pictures.

Mae walked that way because she was only 5 feet tall and wore the highest heels possible so she would not look too short against her taller leading men. The heels also gave her the signature walk. I thought that Mae West was an amazing and powerful woman who had total control over her pictures during the early 1930s. A rarity for women at that time.

Mae West was 40 when she made I'm No Angel. She saved Paramount pictures (which was about go bankrupt) with She Done Him Wrong and this picture. Many of her movies were remade from her earlier Broadway shows with her character name changed. She would only wear the colors black and white on screen. She was refreshingly different and audiences at the time loved her pictures esp during the depression.

In real life she did not smoke, drink and followed a very healthy routine including working out with weights. She used colonics (under a doctor's care) to clean her system out and her skin was said to be amazing. She only made 7-9 films in her career, since retired from the screen due to censorship. Yet she carefuly invested in Beverly Hills real estate and other endeavors which made her so rich that she did not have to work another day in her life. She rarely hung out with the so-called Hollywood crowd and most of her friends were male (platonic of course).

She was probably bored or talked into making a series of special club acts and shows in the 1950s. Her comeback to the stage was a hit and her voice was said to be as powerful as ever.