
• • It could be argued that by the time MAE WEST and Paramount Pictures parted company her career had been damaged beyond repair. But by another reckoning she had no reason to worry. Her status as a cultural icon had become so securely ensconced by the late thirties that it remained invulnerable, safe in a place where no Joseph Breen or William Randolph Hearst could dislodge it.
• • From the movies she had already made, the world knew what she looked like, how she walked and talked. Many could quote at least one of her signature lines. . . .
• • Source for this text: Becoming Mae West by Emily Wortis Leider
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Mae West
• • Illustration: Mae West • • sketched by Mark Summers • •
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Mae West.

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