Toward the end of the number, she partially executes an ambivalent, stiff dip, as if to say, “Hey everybody, I’m not even going to attempt to sing without the track, but I have a different trick, I will now bend backwards thirty degrees with assistance.”
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86-Year-Old Ingenue Mae West Sold Poland Spring Water
Mae West was a true show business original. Her pre-code Paramount films like She Done Him Wrong and I’m No Angel are still first rate comedies that reveal a rich comic mind and ridiculously…
Gay Icon Quentin Crisp on Mae West
From How to Go to the Movies, by Quentin Crisp Miss West was a conspicuously round woman in a very square industry. Nevertheless, at the start of the 1930s, she took to Hollywood like…
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