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 ...

"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.