West, Mae (1893-1980)
Writer, stage performer, screen actress, and nightclub entertainer Mae West emerged, a ray of light during the Great Depression, as a uniquely independent, outspoken, flamboyant,...
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Mae West (1893-1980) played the sultry, provocative woman in numerous popular films and plays. Her sexuality and off-color comments made her films and plays the frequent target of censors. West also w...
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Mae West's career as a screenwriter grew out of her background in vaudeville and her desire to fashion a distinctive identity as a sex symbol. By 1919 she was writing many of her vaudeville sketches, ...
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Nov 15 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major events to
have occurred on Nov. 22 since 1900: 1916 - The American writer Jack London, author of the novels
"White Fang" and "Call of the Wild", ...
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The Post gets a scorchingly hot scoop on the Post's very own headquarters in Rockefeller Center West. Boston's Beacon Capital will pay $1.5 billion for the building at 1211 Sixth Ave., which will m...
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Richard DuBoisSANTA MONICA, Calif. (AP) _ Richard DuBois, a bodybuilder whose brawny physique landed him parts in 1950s movies and Mae West's stage act, has died. He was 74.DuBois died Wednesday of...
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Workers pulled glittery suits and platinum records out of cardboard boxes Sunday ahead of what's being called the largest auction of Jackson family memorabilia ever.Auction staff unpacked and displ...
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Workers pulled glittery suits and platinum records out of cardboard boxes Sunday ahead of what's being called the largest auction of Jackson family memorabilia ever.Auction staff unpacked and displ...
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On the music scene, the warm humor and exquisite vocal flourishes of the eclectic, electrifying Barbara Brussell are causing a power outage down at the Metropolitan Room in Chelsea. For the next fo...
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With Eartha Kitt meowing her way through a fresh batch of catnip at The Carlyle, Tammy Grimes and the legendary Marilyn Maye back at the Metropolitan Room, and jazz icon Mark Murphy at the Iridium,...
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Debra Sanders unlatches a padlock and swings open the door to reveal a room jammed with boxes, steamer trunks, a roulette wheel, wicker furniture, phonographs, mannequins dressed in gold rush garb,...
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You try singing and dancing while wearing a tail. More than a little difficult. Yet "The Little Mermaid" — tail intact — amiably swims along on good cheer and charm.The long-awaited sta...
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For many, the operas of Richard Wagner can be a hard slog: The philosophical conundrums of the librettos, the grating consonants of the German language, and the sheer sitzfleisch needed to get thro...
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West, Mae (1893-1980)
Mae West
Mae West
Reuters historical calendar - November 22
