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Summary: Mae West achieved great acclaim in every entertainment medium that existed during her lifetime, spanning eight decades of the twentieth century. This is the first major documentary film to explore West₂s life and career, as she 'climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong' to become a writer, performer, and subversive agitator for social change.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAE

Louvish, Simon.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WEST, MAE LOU

Leider, Emily Wortis.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1997

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WEST, MAE LEI

Summary: "Set in the 1890s, West plays a brash barroom entertainer with a soft spot for men in trouble, especially the mission director, young Cary Grant. She unknowingly gets caught up in a murder, as well as a white slavery ring, and sets about clearing things up as only Mae can. In between rescues she manages to perform some of her heated, hip-swinging classics including a steamy belting of 'Frankie...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SHE

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