Mae West: Gilded Lil

In prison Chick Clark complains to a fellow inmate about "givin' most of those sparklers to [Diamond] Lil" - - and now he's paying for it with hard time.

• • In the midst of fiction she was writing for the stage [such as "Diamond Lil"] and screen [for instance, "She Done Him Wrong"], Mae West always injected a little truth. And it's quite true that she loved diamonds. Call her a two-bracelet babe. Even drawings of her would zing with bling.
• • "Vegetables don't interest me," Mae once joked during an interview. "The only karats I pay attention to are the ones in a diamond."
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Mae West
• • Photo • Mae West • 1928
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