* 1927 – Mae West is sentenced to 10 days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.

For many years he simultaneously produced the daily strip, a weekly syndicated newspaper column, and a 500-station radio program ...." He ran the Boston Summer Theatre with The Phantom cartoonist Lee Falk, bringing in Hollywood actors such as Mae West, Melvyn Douglas and Claude Rains to star in their live productions.

They made him a minor, off-beat celebrity in Los Angeles and around Hollywood, and his friendship with old show-business types like Mae West and rising fringe celebrities like Korla Pandit made Criswell an entertaining presence at parties.

Angell was born in West Barrington, Rhode Island to Henry Angell and Mae ( née Cooney ).

Dialogue now took precedence over " slapstick " in Hollywood comedies: the fast-paced, witty banter of The Front Page ( 1931 ) or It Happened One Night ( 1934 ), the sexual double entrendres of Mae West ( She Done Him Wrong, 1933 ) or the often subversively anarchic nonsense talk of the Marx Brothers ( Duck Soup, 1933 ).

Moon played a campy fashion designer in the film Sextette ( 1978 ), starring Mae West.

By the 1930s, talkies brought in a range of powerful new draws: Miriam Hopkins, Marlene Dietrich, Mae West, Gary Cooper, Claudette Colbert, the Marx Brothers, Dorothy Lamour, Carole Lombard, Bing Crosby, the band leader Shep Fields and the famous Argentine tango singer Carlos Gardel among them.

In 1933, Mae West would also add greatly to Paramount's success with her movies She Done Him Wrong and I'm No Angel.

He recounted seeing Cary Grant, Marlene Dietrich and Mae West, who he would learn made a regular appearance every Friday night, bodyguard in tow.

** Mae West makes a risque guest appearance on the NBC Chase and Sanborn Hour that eventually results in her being banned from radio.

* August 17 – Mae West, American actress, playwright, screenwriter, and sex symbol ( d. 1980 )

His imitations were imitated by other female impersonators, and his roles included Bette Davis, Mae West, Tallulah Bankhead, Gloria Swanson, Carol Channing, Katharine Hepburn, and Joan Crawford, which became the drag queen canon.

They also collaborated on two of the most enduring icons of the Surrealist movement: the Lobster Telephone and the Mae West Lips Sofa.

* A " Mae West " or " Blown Periphery " is a type of round parachute malfunction which contorts the shape of the canopy into the appearance of a brassiere, presumably one outward, is blown against the opposite skirt.

* Mae West recorded the song for her 1972 album Great Balls of Fire.

3 which contains 60 versions of the song — 30 by Haley ( mostly live performances ), and 30 more by a variety of artists including Pat Boone, Chubby Checker, Eddie Cochran, John Lennon, Buddy Knox, Isley Brothers, The Platters, Carl Perkins, and Mae West.

Bawdy double entendres, such as " I'm the kinda girl who works for Paramount by day, and Fox all night ", and " I feel like a million tonight — but only one at a time ", were the trademark of Mae West, in her early-career vaudeville performances as well as in her later plays and movies.

In the sound era McCarey ventured into feature-film direction, working with many of the biggest stars of the era, including Gloria Swanson ( Indiscreet, 1931 ), Eddie Cantor ( The Kid From Spain, 1932 ), the Marx Brothers ( Duck Soup, 1933 ), W. C. Fields ( Six of a Kind, 1934 ), Mae West ( Belle of the Nineties, 1934 ), and Harold Lloyd ( The Milky Way, 1936 ).

Her first film appearance was in The Golden West ( 1932 ), as a maid ; her second was in the highly successful Mae West film I'm No Angel ( 1933 ), as one of the black maids West camped it up with backstage.

In addition to Dalí paintings from all decades of his career, there are Dalí sculptures, 3-dimensional collages, mechanical devices, a living-room with custom furniture that looks like the face of Mae West when viewed from a certain spot, and other curiosities from Dalí's imagination.

There is also a set of works created by the artist expressly for the Theater-Museum, like the room Mae West, the room Palau del Vent, the Monument to Francesc Pujols, and the Cadillac plujós.

Over the years, noted visitors such as film actors Clark Gable and Mae West, athletes Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey, news magnate William Randolph Hearst, and the Vanderbilt family vacationed in the city for the bath industry.

By this time, Dietrich ranked 126th at the box office and exhibitors labelled her " Box Office Poison " ( alongside others like Fred Astaire, Joan Crawford, Dolores del Río, Mae West and Katharine Hepburn ).

She lives in Smallville with the Kents, who treated " Mae " like their own daughter.

She was cast in the leading role after both the actress playing Peggy Sawyer and her understudy fell ill. She also played Mae Jones in the Kurt Weill opera Street Scene with the English National Opera at the London Coliseum Theatre in 1989.

She was thereafter voiced by character actress Mae Questel ( who also voiced Betty Boop and other characters ).

She appeared as Baroness Frankenstein in Bride of Frankenstein ( 1935 ) with Boris Karloff and Colin Clive, taking over the role from Mae Clarke, who had played it in the original Frankenstein ( 1931 ).

Introduced by Mae West in the film She Done Him Wrong.

She also appeared in many other television series during her career, most notably in a recurring role as Grace Keefer on the ABC daytime drama All My Children and a supporting role as Ella Mae Farmer, a statistics clerk for the Washington, D. C. police department, on the CBS crime drama The District.

She claims to takes Rita from the author's name, Rita Mae Brown.

She was the only child of Joseph Russell Levy, who was Jewish, and Alta Mae Goddard, who was Episcopalian and of English heritage.

She was born on January 9, 1929 as Dorothea Helen Gray in Redlands, California to Trudy Mae Yates and Jesse James Gray.

She had three sisters: Eleanor Carlson Doud, Eda Mae Doud, and Mabel Frances " Mike " Doud.

She was nicknamed " Sadie Mae Glutz " by Manson and a man who was creating a fake ID for her at the time.

She was the youngest of the three daughters of Anna Mae ( née Wright ) and Daniel MacDonald.

She and Walt had two daughters, Diane Marie Disney, born December 18, 1933, and Sharon Mae Disney, born December 31, 1936, the latter of whom was adopted.

She was appointed by former Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle to serve as a commissioner on the bipartisan National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, which sought to investigate the circumstances leading up to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and also served as Vice Chairman of Fannie Mae.

Her feature film Hello, Everybody ( 1932 ) was released shortly before Mae West's She Done Him Wrong ( 1933 ).

She published fiction in Mademoiselle, Cosmopolitan Magazine, and non-fiction in the New York Times Magazine and in American Heritage, including lengthy articles on Ethel Waters, Bessie Smith, Irving Berlin and Mae West.

She did not want to raise her child, so her mother, Jannie Mae Howard, adopted him.

She appeared in the 1963 film version of Bye Bye Birdie, in the role of Mama Mae Peterson, with Dick Van Dyke, Janet Leigh, Paul Lynde and Ann-Margret.

She is also depicted larger-than-life as one of the four supporting pillars of the " Gateway to Hollywood " sculpture located on the southeast corner of Hollywood Boulevard and La Brea Avenue, with the actresses Dolores del Río ( Hispanic American ), Dorothy Dandridge ( African American ) and Mae West.

She provided Grace Kelly, Veronica Lake, Kim Novak, Mae Murray, and Eva Marie Saint as examples.

She provided Brigitte Bardot, Lana Turner, Jean Harlow, Joan Blondell, Mae West, Barbara Eden, Marilyn Monroe, and Diana Dors as examples.