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screengoddess · 2 days

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Mae West 1933

#vintage #classic hollywood #1930's #actress #vintage hollywood #vintage fashion #mae west

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hotvintagepoll · 15 hours

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I was down in the shadow realm following Mae West at a respectful distance and happening to be in earshot when she had conversations and i heard her tell bette davis that she's thinking about seducing jessica walters and becoming queen consort. normally she doesnt swing that way but she will for the associated furs and diamonds

yeah this definitely happened.

#the amount of swag currently in the shadow realm...truly unbelievable #shadow realm #mae west

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omgthatdress · 3 months

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Few American writers and entertainers have managed to have careers as wild and scandalous as that of Mae West.

A vaudeville performer since childhood, she developed a distinctive sexy stage persona and signature sauntering walk that was inspired by the likes of Julian Eltinge and Bert Savoy.

In 1927, she opened her first play, Sex, which she both wrote and starred in. It centered around Margy, a high-end sex worker, and Clara, the stuck up society lady who was the mother of the man Margie falls in love with. Ticket sales were strong, but city officials were upset about the play's risqué content. West was eventually arrested, tried, and sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity.

While incarcerated, she told reporters that she'd worn her silk panties in jail, instead of the "burlap" that was usually given to prisoners. The scandal of it all sent ticket sales through the roof.

Her next play was set to be even more controversial: it was called The Drag, and it had an entire cast of homosexuals. The end scene was a massive and spectacular drag ball. The show went for ten performances before it was shut down by police.

Police threatened to shut down all of Broadway if The Drag continued to be performed, so it was cancelled. However, a censored version with a now heterosexual protagonist called The Pleasure Man was allowed to perform a year later.

Eventually, West would make her way to Hollywood and become one of the most iconic stars of the 1930s.

In 2019, The Drag was performed for the first time in many decades at Gay City in Seattle, and has since then been performed several times across the U.S.

#1930s #1920s #Mae West #drag #history of drag #gay #queer #lgbt #gay history #queer history #lgbt history

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normajeanebaker · 2 years

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The Spider Web Dress worn by Mae West in I'm No Angel (1933) Costume Design by Travis Banton

#mae west #i'm no angel #i'm no angel 1933 #costumeedit #pre code #oldhollywoodedit #classicfilmedit #classichollywoodedit #old hollywood #filmedit #vintage #vintagedit #fashion #jp=2 #*noangel

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eyesfullofmoon · 4 months

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Pages from Cecil Beaton's scrapbook(s).

#1930s #1940s #1950s #*#art #greta garbo #marlene dietrich #joan crawford #anna sten #lillian gish #katharine hepburn #peter lorre #fred astaire #mae west #sophia loren #grace kelly #gloria swanson #cecil beaton #old hollywood

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secretceremonies · 7 months

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Facial studies for Mae West and Greta Garbo

#precode #pre code #pre code actresses #pre code movies #1930s #30s #1933 #mae west #greta garbo #old hollywood #old hollywood glamour #old movies #old films #golden era

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ediths-shades · 16 days

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MAE WEST in I'm No Angel (1933)

Costume design by Travis Banton

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thoughtkick · 3 months

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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Mae West

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luckywildgirl · 2 months

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Las Vegas Showgirl

#vintage #60s #1960s #50s #1950s #marilyn monroe #thierry mugler #mae west #showgirls #las Vegas showgirl #pin up #burlesque #vintage coquette #coquette #coquette aesthetic #las Vegas #vintage aesthetic #vintage sleaze #vintage cheesecake

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thehopefulquotes · 17 days

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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Mae West

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hotvintagepoll · 1 month

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Margaret Lindsay (Frisco Kid, The House of the Seven Gables, Scarlet Street)—she was born in Dubuque, Iowa, then moved to England to make her stage debut. She framed herself as a British actress and moved back to America to try Hollywood, then starred with James Cagney in a bunch of movies. She was in the Ellery Queen movie series and The House of the Seven Gables. She never married (I suspect lesbian stuff) but lived with her sisters. She dated Cesar Romero and Liberace (I told you. Lesbian stuff.) Please include the pic of her in the tie [included above]

Mae West (She Done Him Wrong, I'm No Angel)—She is an absolute icon, the OG sex symbol. Every word from her mouth was an innuendo and she was proud of it. I guess one could say she slayed. She got Cary Grant his first acting role, as well. How could you NOT vote for someone who says such iconic stuff as "I do all my writing in bed; everybody knows I do my best work there" or "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough." SHE COINED THE PHRASE "IS THAT A GUN IN YOUR POCKET OR ARE YOU JUST HAPPY TO SEE ME?" I LOVE HER!!!

This is round 2 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

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Margaret Lindsay:

Mae West:

Her voice! Her body! She was thick as hell and SO confident.

Mae West is often called the queen of the sexual pun or innuendo, she was an early sex symbol and a comedy icon. She also has a quote saying "When I am good, I am very good. But when I am bad I am better!" which is possibly the peak of hot girl energy ever. (Including the clip here)

for an era that didn't have much wiggle room when it came to women that studios wanted in their films, it's refreshing that she was in her late 30s when she skyrocketed to movie fame. she was also curvy and witty and raunchy, an absolute icon!

Legendary sex symbol. Like 500 vintage iconic quotes and double entendres. "Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me? " "When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad, I'm better" / "It's not the men in your life that count, it's the life in your men" / "I feel like a million tonight. But one at a time." , "Marriage is a fine institution, but I'm not ready for an institution. " / " How tall are you without your horse? Six foot, seven inches. Never mind the six feet. Let's talk about the seven inches! " Look the pictures don't do her justice just watch a compilation and tell me that voice doesn't do it for you

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She was a SEX GODDESS at a time when that was an extremely scandalous thing to be, and she worked it! She was sardonic, sarcastic, funny...and stacked! Favorite quote (from Night After Night, 1933): Random woman: Goodness! What beautiful diamonds! Mae West: Goodness had nothin' to do with it, dearie.

i personally love this silly production number from one of her lesser known movies

She was arrested for indecency and chose to serve 10 days in prison instead of paying the fine for the publicity, and she claimed that she refused to wear the ugly prison outfits so she wore her silk lingerie the entire time. Also one of the first historybound vintage fashion icons (although vintage for her was the Victorian era)

#mae west #margaret lindsay #hotvintagepoll #fuck that old woman #ladies 2

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cressida-jayoungr · 2 months

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One Dress a Day Challenge

February: Coeli's Monochrome Picks

I'm No Angel / Mae West as Tira

Coeli's comment: "Wowza!"

The pre-code era strikes again, with Travis Banton as the designer. The slinky, low-cut gown with spiderweb wrap in the bottom photo looks positively demure next to the costume she's almost wearing in the other photos. In Tira's defense, she is a circus sideshow performer. However, it's not too hard to see why this movie was cited as one of the factors leading to the implementation of the Hays Code.

Classic lines:

"Oh, Beulah, peel me a grape!"

"Well, it's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men."

"When I'm good I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better."

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perfectquote · 2 months

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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Mae West

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quotefeeling · 6 months

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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Mae West

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gatabella · 1 year

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15-year-old Ray Bradbury with Marlene Dietrich, 1935

"I was madly in love with Hollywood… I had been roller skating all over the town and was absolutely obsessed with getting autographs from all those glamorous stars. It was great. I saw really big MGM stars like Norma Shearer, Laurel and Hardy, Ronald Colman. Or I would hang out all day in front of Paramount or Columbia, then rush to the Brown Derby to look at the stars coming in or out of there. I saw Cary Grant, Marlene Dietrich, Fred Allen, Burns and Allen – everyone who'd been to the coast. Mae West appeared every Friday with her bodyguard. ...I still have these autographs, and the wheels from the rollers also survived to these days. Almost all of those people I had met are already gone, but by some miracle Marlene and George survived. The light coming from these photos is like a repeated session of my life about a slightly stupid, but always loyal boy who terribly didn't want to grow up."

- Ray Bradbury

#marlene dietrich #ray bradbury #quote #old hollywood #norma shearer #cary grant #laurel and hardy #ronald colman #mae west #my translation

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nobrashfestivity · 7 months

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Salvador Dali, Mae West Lips Sofa

Wood, woollen flannel, cotton and brass rivets

#salvador dali #mae west #interior design #furniture #sofa #lips

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