TY - BOOK AU - Watts,Jill TI - Mae West: an icon in black and white SN - 9780198026518 AV - PN2287.W4566 W39 2001eb U1 - 791.43/028/092B 22 PY - 2001/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - West, Mae. KW - West, Mae KW - Motion picture actors and actresses KW - United States KW - Biography KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY KW - Entertainment & Performing Arts KW - bisacsh KW - PERFORMING ARTS KW - Acting & Auditioning KW - fast KW - Relations with African Americans KW - Filmkunst KW - gtt KW - Films KW - Electronic books KW - Biographies N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; They were too smart -- The way she does it -- Shimadonna -- Speaking of the influence of the jook -- You can be had -- The subject of the dream -- Good night to the dichotomies -- If you can't go straight, you've got to go around -- Naturally I disagree -- Bring me Rabelais -- A glittering facsimile -- I had them all -- I wrote the story myself -- Really a prologue; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010 N2 - "Why don't you come up and see me sometime?" Mae West invited and promptly captured the imagination of generations. Even today, years after her death, the actress and author is still regarded as the pop archetype of sexual wantonness and ribald humor. But who was this saucy starlet, a woman who was controversial enough to be jailed, pursued by film censors and banned from the airwaves for the revolutionary content of her work, and yet would ascend to the status of film legend?. Sifting through previously untapped sources, author Jill Watts unravels the enigmatic life of Mae West, tra UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=264863 ER -