• • When Lillian Schissel edited "Three Plays by Mae West" [published by Routledge in 1997], this was the first time Sex, The Drag, and The Pleasure Man had been printed in PLAY form. Thought to be lost, the original manuscripts were sleeping at the Library of Congress. After prolonged legal wrangling with the Roger Richman Agency of Los Angeles, who at the time represented the Mae West receivership estate, a deal was finally struck to have the plays published.
• • In her introduction, Lillian Schissel argues that West provided one of the first role models for women suggesting they could be independent and achieve success following through on their own ambitions.
• • Mae West was, without question, one of the most famous and controversial figures of her era. She was a tough-talking, wise-cracking vaudeville performer who made her way onto the Broadway stage and then into the hearts of the American public with a highly visible Hollywood film career. Rarely, however, do people think of Mae West as a writer even though she wrote eight scripts for the stage and her own dialogue for many of her films.
• • In Three Plays By Mae West, Lillian Schlissel brings this underexplored part of West's career to the fore by offering for the first time in book form, three of the plays West wrote in the 1920s -- Sex (1926), The Drag (1927), and Pleasure Man (1928). Schlissel's introduction offers insight to the life and early career of this legendary stage and screen actress.
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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