Mae West was a Hollywood legend who was also a symbol of the modern woman: free, in charge of her destiny, not shy about her sexuality and, most important, not tethered to any one man. But Mae ...

“I don’t know how many people remember Mae West, but she was kind of a legend. She hadn’t done a movie in 20 years and she was older, but I had this interview at 8pm in her apartment,” he ...

In 1933’s I’m No Angel, the second of two pre-Code movies that she wrote as well as starred in, the voracious and voluptuous Mae West plays Tira, a sideshow dancer who accumulates fame—and men—with ...

"Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution." Mae West was apparently married in 1911 in Milwaukee, to Frank Wallace, a fellow vaudevillian who, in 1937, showed up in ...

Mae West, shown as she appeared while touring the ... no-strings-attached woman who wouldn't tie herself down to any one man. And then a story broke that threatened to challenge that reputation.