Mae West: Dirty Blonde

Mae West: Dirty Blonde

2020 en 84 minutes

Rating: 6.8

Plot

Mae West achieved great acclaim in every entertainment medium that existed during her lifetime, spanning eight decades of the 20th century. A full-time actress at seven, a vaudevillian at 14, a dancing sensation at 25, a playwright at 33, a silver screen ingénue at 40, a Vegas nightclub act at 62, a recording artist at 73, a camp icon at 85 - West left no format unconquered. She possessed creative and economic powers unheard of for a female entertainer in the 1930s and still rare today. Though a comedian, West grappled with some of the more complex social issues of the 20th century, including race and class tensions, and imbued even her most salacious plotlines with commentary about gender conformity, societal restrictions and what she perceived as moral hypocrisy. Mae West: Dirty Blonde is the first major documentary film to explore West's life and career, as she "climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong" to become a writer, performer and subversive agitator for social change.

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Cast

Mae West

Mae West

Self (archive footage)

Margaret Cho

Margaret Cho

Self

Dita Von Teese

Dita Von Teese

Self

Natasha Lyonne

Natasha Lyonne

Self

Ringo Starr

Ringo Starr

Self

Kathy Najimy

Kathy Najimy

Self

George Schlatter

George Schlatter

Self

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