Mae West - It Ain't No Sin (Hardcover)

Sex Goddess, Hollywood star, transgressive playwright, author, blues singer and vaudeville brat - Mae West remains the twentieth century's greatest comedienne, a woman who blazed her own trail through Broadway plays such as "Sex and The Constant Sinner", and movie classics such as "She Done Him Wrong", "Klondike Annie" and "I'm No Angel". Simon Louvish, biographer of W.C. Fields, the Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy and Keystone's Mack Sennett, brings Mae to vibrant life, charting her amazing seven decades in show business, from teenage summer stock to her last reincarnation as 1960s gay icon and grand dame of Hollywood survivors. As Mae said, in her usual come-on purr: 'I never walk when I can sit, or sit when I can recline. I believe in saving my energy - for important things...'. "Mae West: It Ain't No Sin" is the first biography to make use of Mae's recently uncovered personal papers, with different script versions of both her known works and hitherto unknown drafts and plays.