Mae West: Learning to be a High Earner in 1935

By March 1935 she was the highest-paid woman in America.

In Mae West's own words -- on being a trend setter:

"More people saw me than saw Napoleon, Lincoln and Cleopatra. I was better known than Einstein and Picasso. ... I changed the fashion of two continents. The style of the Gay Nineties became the rage ... women were trying to walk and talk like me. Women became more sex-conscious - - sex was out in the open and fun.