* 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 ).

Mae was his wife.

There was really no place to go, finally, except home to Mae.

He could tell them his fears of being involved, he could explain what had happened in the old neighborhood and how Mae had misunderstood and how she had held it over him -- the scene was complete in his mind at the moment, even to his own jerkings and snivelings, and Ferguson's silent patience.

`` Evadna Mae Evans said she didn't put a thing on her child but a flannel wrapper until it was nine months old ''.

On December 30, 1918, Capone married Mae Josephine Coughlin, who was Irish Catholic and who, earlier that month, had given birth to their first son, Albert Francis (" Sonny ") Capone.

Barrymore was born into acting: her great-grandparents Maurice Barrymore and Georgie Drew Barrymore, Maurice Costello and Mae Costello ( Altschuk ) and her grandparents John Barrymore and Dolores Costello, were all actors ; John Barrymore was arguably the most acclaimed actor of his generation.

Fannie Mae Clackum was the first service member to successfully appeal such a discharge, winning eight years of back pay from the US Court of Claims in 1960.

Hopper was born in Dodge City, Kansas, the son of Marjorie Mae ( née Davis, July 12, 1917-January 12, 2007 ) and James Millard Hopper ( June 23, 1916 – August 7, 1982 ).

This sound film starred Lee Tracy and Mae Clarke and was an early example of the " fast-talking " sound films that Howard Hawks would later make one of his signatures.

It was a translation of the Welsh original, Aros Mae.

He was the youngest of five children, after siblings Edgar, Frank, Matthew ( nicknamed " Mack "), and Willa Mae.

Davis ' mother, Cleota Mae ( Henry ) Davis, wanted her son to learn the piano ; she was a capable blues pianist but kept this fact hidden from her son.

The first African-American woman astronaut, Mae Jemison, was brought into space on the mission STS-47 on September 12, 1992.

Foster was born in Hope, Arkansas, to Alice Mae and Vincent W. Foster.

The singular event that triggered Mae filing for divorce in 1935 was her finding Keaton in flagrante delicto with the infamous Leah Clampitt Sewell on the 4th of July of that same year in a hotel in Santa Barbara.

Gardner was born in the big farming community of Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina, the youngest of seven children ( she had two brothers, Raymond and Melvin, and four sisters, Beatrice, Elsie Mae, Inez, and Myra ).

Six months after Thurmond's death in 2003, it was revealed that at age 22, he had fathered a mixed-race daughter, Essie Mae Washington-Williams, with his family's maid, Carrie Butler, a 16-year-old black girl.

After Thurmond's death in 2003, an attorney for his family confirmed that in 1925, when he was 22, Thurmond fathered a mixed-race daughter, Essie Mae Washington-Williams, with his family's housekeeper, Cassie Butler, then 16 years old.

Six months after the death of Thurmond, Essie Mae Washington-Williams publicly revealed that she was his daughter.

It was there he met singer Anna Mae Bullock, whom he married and renamed Tina Turner, forming the Ike & Tina Turner Revue, which over the course of the sixties became a soul / rock crossover success.

It was at this time that Turner moved over to playing guitar to accommodate Annie Mae, taking lessons from Willie Kizart to improve.

Aillene was a barmaid at the club and was dating a Kings of Rhythm band mate often bringing Anna Mae with her.