The dirty blonde referred to in the title "Dirty Blonde" is Mae West, (1892-1993). "But it is not a documentary, I'm not impersonating Mae," says Julie Briskman. That's fortunate. Briskman is not ...

Of all the popular actresses of the '30s, Mae West may well have been the most daring. The actress, singer and writer became iconic for her delightfully sassy roles in comedies like She Done Him Wrong ...

Actress Mae West's former Los Angeles home has hit the market for $6 million. Hidden in the Rustic Canyon neighborhood of Santa Monica, the Mediterranean estate's layout features a beautifully updated ...

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Mae West, a Hollywood sex symbol of the 1930s, was in her 60s when she embarked on a "passionate affair" with 21-year-old Richard DuBois — but it was her heavily muscled lover who ultimately walked ...

The American Masters Digital Archive includes over 1,000 hours of never-before-seen, raw interviews: a treasure trove of the movers and shakers of American culture, including Maya Angelou, Patti Smith ...

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In this interview from December 4, 2018, Ringo Starr describes his friendship with Mae West, which started on the set of of the 1978 film "Sextette," and how Mae was Mae both onscreen and offscreen.