Making men of all the age group crazy is not that every woman can do. But this actress had that talent and was considered as the first sex symbol of America. Readout to know about her.
May West once jokingly said that she should be licensed to invent sex, which she opened to Americans. The name of this woman, who drove men of all ages crazy, was synonymous with scandal and emancipation. Mae West became the first actress of the first half of the 20th century to so openly exploit the topic of sex in theater and cinema that she even ended up in jail for insulting public morality.
The future sex symbol of America was born into a family where her mother was an actress and her father was a boxer. May’s passion for acting has been manifested since childhood. At the age of 7 she already performed on stage, at 16 she participated in vaudeville. The parents could not restrain the girl’s violent temper. She played secondary roles that did not bring the desired success, so after a few years, the actress decided to write the play herself and play the main role in it.
She made her Broadway debut in 1926. Mae West directed the sandal play Sex. The audience was loudly outraged at such an obscene name, but tickets for each performance were sold out at lightning speed. 368 times in a row, Mae West went on stage to play this role, until one day the police showed up directly to the theater and arrested the actress for indecent behavior and corruption of young people. The indignant wives nevertheless got their way, and the brawler was sentenced to ten days in prison. However, she used all her seduction and did not sit there for seven days. Mae West emerged from her cell as America’s most famous actress.
In 1932, Mae West was invited to Hollywood. There she made a film written by herself. The plot was not very thoughtful. The actress continued to exploit the image of a seductive blonde. West’s films were scrutinized by censors, so her work had a lot of subtext, hints. This made her films commercially successful. Mae West herself once said: “I believe in censorship, I made a fortune out of it.”
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