MAE-West

Mae West (August 17, 1893 – November 22, 1980) was an American actress, playwright, and sex symbol.

Later career

West also appeared on television talk shows and, in the early 1960s, she guest starred as herself on the popular television series Mister Ed.

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Television - Talk show - Mister Ed

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After an absence of almost thirty years from the silver screen, she appeared in Gore Vidal's Myra Breckinridge (1970) with John Huston, Raquel Welch, Rex Reed, Farrah Fawcett, and Tom Selleck, in a small part. It failed, but soon became a camp classic (notably among gay men, due to its sex change theme).

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Gore Vidal - Myra Breckinridge - 1970 - John Huston - Raquel Welch - Rex Reed - Farrah Fawcett - Tom Selleck

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At the age of eighty-five, West returned in her last movie, Sextette (1978) with Timothy Dalton, Dom DeLuise, Tony Curtis, Ringo Starr, Alice Cooper, and George Hamilton, with Rona Barrett, and Walter Pidgeon. She was with George Raft, as well, in this last film, just as she had been with him in her first film, Night After Night (1932), which provided an odd symmetry to both their long careers.

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1978 - Timothy Dalton - Dom DeLuise - Tony Curtis - Ringo Starr - Alice Cooper - George Hamilton - Rona Barrett - Walter Pidgeon - George Raft

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Sextette was amusingly terrible and failed at the box-office, despite the fact that before its release large photographs of her reclining on a chaise longue went up on billboards all over Hollywood proclaiming, "Mae West Is Coming."

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In November 1980, she suffered a stroke and was rushed to the hospital, but the prognosis was not good and she was sent home. She died at home in the Ravenswood apartment building on North Rossmore Avenue in Hollywood at the age of 87.

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She is entombed in the Cypress Hills Cemetery at 833 Jamaica Avenue in her native Brooklyn, New York.

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Cypress Hills Cemetery - Brooklyn, New York

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Mae West has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1560 Vine Street in Hollywood.

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Hollywood Walk of Fame - Hollywood

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