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Synopsis
Presents a provocative portrait of the early life of the dynamic actress whose scandalous career transformed the entertainment and film industry of the 1920s and 1930s and made her into a cultural icon, in a biography complemented by thirty-two pages of photographs.
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She was the Madonna of her time, parlaying a modest talent into international celebrity with a carefully cultivated, outsized personality and an unerring instinct for just how outrageous to be without alienating her audience. Mae West (1893-1980) crafted the persona that made her the biggest movie star of the early 1930s during her vaudeville and Broadway apprenticeship. Those formative years are the subject of this absorbing cultural biography, which closes in 1938 when Paramount dropped her contract. A generous sampling of West one-liners adds sparkle to the text.
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Emily Worth Leider, a former editor and reviewer for many publications, including the San Francisco Review of Books , is the author of California's Daughter: Gertrude Atherton and Her Times. She lives in northern California.
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- PublisherFarrar Straus & Giroux
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0374109591
- ISBN 13 9780374109592
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages431
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