Actor (17-Aug-1893 — 22-Nov-1980)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Michael Bavar. Mae West. Pyramid Communications. 1975. 159pp.

Fergus Cashin. Mae West: A Biography. Arlington House. 1981. 197pp.

Ramona Curry. Too Much of a Good Thing: Mae West as Cultural Icon. University of Minnesota Press. 1996. 217pp.

George Eells; Stanley Musgrove. Mae West: A Biography. New York: William Morrow. 1982. 351pp.

Marybeth Hamilton. When I'm Bad, I'm Better: Mae West, Sex, and American Entertainment. University of California Press. 1997. 317pp.

Emily Wortis Leider. Becoming Mae West. Da Capo Press. 2000. 472pp.

Maurice Leonard. Mae West: Empress of Sex. Collins. 1991. 352pp.

Simon Louvish. Mae West: It Ain't No Sin. London: Faber and Faber. 2005.

Tim Malachosky; James Greene. Mae West. Empire Publications. 1993. 346pp.

Jon Tuska. The Films of Mae West. Carol Publishing Group. 1973. 191pp. A revised edition published in 1992 by Citadel Press, 195pp.

Carol Marie Ward. Mae West: A Bio-Bibliography. Greenwood Press. 1989. 241pp.

Jill Watts. Mae West: An Icon in Black and White. Oxford University Press. 2003. 400pp.

Joseph Weintraub (editor). The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1967. 92pp.

Mae West. Goodness Had Nothing To Do With It: Autobiography. Prentice-Hall. 1959. 271pp.

AUTHORITIES

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Internet Broadway Database [link]

5. Wikipedia [link]

6. Library of Congress Name Authority [link]

7. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.747)

8. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.1547)

9. Webster's American Biographies (p.1116)

10. The Film Encyclopedia, 5th Edition (p.1490)

11. Cassell Companion to Cinema (p.591)

12. Quinlan's Illustrated Registry of Film Stars (p.474)

13. Chambers Film and TV Handbook (p.361)

14. Current Biography, 1967 Yearbook (pp.455-58)

15. The Encyclopedia of Film (p.573)

16. The Encyclopedia of Hollywood (p.457)

17. The New Biographical Dictionary of Film (p.930)

18. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.784)

19. International Dictionary of Women's Biography (p.493)

20. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.512)

21. St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (vol.5, p.115)

22. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.309)

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