Actress playwright screenwriter and iconic sex symbol Mae West
(1893-1980) created a scandal and a sensation on Broadway with her
play ESexE in 1926. Convicted of obscenity she was sentenced to ten
days in prison. She went to jail a convict but emerged a star.
Later in Hollywood she was the number one box-office attraction
during the 1930s and saved Paramount Studios from bankruptcy. Her
films included some notorious one-liners a which she wrote herself
a that have become part of Hollywood lore. But behind the clever
quips was Mae's deep desire decades before the word feminism was in
the news to see women treated equally with men. She saw through the
double standard of the time that permitted men to do things that
women would be ruined for doing. Her cause was sexual equality and
she was shrewd enough to know that it was perhaps the ultimate
battleground.THIn EShe Always Knew HowE Charlotte Chandler draws on
a series of extensive interviews that she conducted with Mae West
just months before the star's death. Chandler also spoke with
actors and directors who knew and worked with Mae the man with whom
she lived for the last twenty-seven years of her life and her close
assistant. Their insights enrich this fascinating book.
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