Mae West
Subtitle: It Ain't No Sin
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: November 14, 2006
Place of publication: United States of America
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 491
ISBN-13: 9780312348786
Subjects: Individual Actors And Actresses; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Entertainment & Performing Arts - Actors & Actresses; Women; Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts; Entertainment & Performing Arts - General; Biography; Motion picture actors and actresses; United States; West, Mae
Table of contents: title: List of Illustrations vii; title: Prologue: Come Up and See Me ix; title: PART ONE; title: Rap Rap Rap; title: 1 More Sunlight and Less Smoke 3; title: 2 Made Ready for the Footlights 9; title: 3 In Dahomey 16; title: 4 'I Always Wanted Attention . . .' 25; title: 5 'There Is Never Enough Hot Water in the Dressing Rooms' 35; title: 6 Very Violetta, Et Cetera 41; title: PART TWO; title: The Low-and-Behold Girl; title: 7 Looking Pretty and Saying Cute Things 55; title: 8 'No Vulgarity Whatsoever!' 62; title: 9 Of Jimmy and the Shimmy 70; title: 10 'What Do You Have to Do to Get It?' 77; title: 11 To a Rag and a Bone and a Hank of Hair . . . 86; title: 12 You've Gotta Have a Certain Something 97; title: PART THREE; title: Sex, Drag and Rocky Roads; title: 13 Never Has Disgrace Fallen So Heavily . . . 113; title: 14 The Scarlet Sisterhood for Life 123; title: 15 'Every One in the Police Force is Not a Dancer' 132; title: 16 The Wicked Age 139; title: 17 I Want to Be Bad! 149; title: 18 Miss Don't Give a Damn 162; title: 19 The Constant Sinner 172; title: 20 'Song's Words Don't Offend, But Tune Does' 181; title: PART FOUR; title: Belle of the Thirties; title: 21 Being Bad in a Nice Town 195; title: 22 Coming Soon: The Street of Scarlet Memories . . . 208; title: 23 'If He Swallows It, I'll Buy It' - The Legend Begins 215; title: 24 'Beulah - Peel Me a Grape!' 224; title: 25 A Diversion - The Secret Life of Mae West 240; title: 26 The Devil's Daughter 249; title: 27 A Member in Good Standing 267; title: 28 Revenge of the Song-and-Dance Man 282; title: 29 The Devil's Daughter Revisited 287; title: 30 The Fifty Monkeys, and Other Primates 303; title: 31 Flutter By, Little Butterfly 313; title: PART FIVE; title: Herself Alone; title: 32 Off Screen as On . . . 329; title: 33 'Mae West Haunted by Dead Romance . . .' 345; title: 34 Catherine Was Great - But She Drifted . . . 356; title: 35 Mae West, with Diamonds, Arrived . . . 368; title: 36 Crossing the Sahara . . . 378; title: 37 Is This the End - Or Are We Just Beginning? 390; title: 38 Something Left Over, or Who Do You Sleep With to Get Off This Film? 397; title: 39 'The Last of Living Legends' 407; title: EPILOGUE; title: 40 Of Short Weddings and Long Honeymoons 413; title: APPENDICES; title: Notes on Sources 425; title: Chronology, Stage Plays and Filmography 451; title: Select Bibliography 467; title: Acknowledgements 471; title: Index 473