Mae West is a scandalous actress who became America's first sex symbol

Once, as a joke, Mae West said that she should be given a license to invent sex, which she discovered for Americans. The name of this woman, who drove men of all ages crazy, was synonymous with scandal and emancipation. Mae West became the first actress of the first half of the XX century who so openly exploited the topic of sex in theater and cinema that she even ended up behind bars for insulting public morality.

The future sex symbol of America was born in a family where her mother was an actress and her father was a boxer. May's craving for acting has been evident since childhood. At the age of 7 she was already performing on stage, at 16 she participated in vaudeville. Parents could not restrain the girl's stormy temper. She played minor roles that did not bring the desired success, so after a few years the actress decided to write a play herself and play the main role in it.

She made her Broadway debut in 1926. Mae West staged the sandal play "Sex". The audience was loudly indignant about such an obscene name, but tickets for each performance were sold out at lightning speed. 368 times in a row, Mae West went on stage to play this role, until one day the police showed up right at the theater and arrested the actress for indecent behavior and corruption of young people. Outraged wives still got their way, and the brawler was sentenced to ten days in prison. However, she used all her seduction and did not sit there for seven days. Mae West came out of the camera the most famous actress in America.

Mae West wrote plays and directed films with sexual overtones.

In 1932, Mae West was invited to Hollywood. There she made a film written by herself. The plot was not distinguished by profundity. The actress continued to exploit the image of a seductive blonde. Censors carefully checked West's films, so there was a lot of subtext and hints in her works. This made her films commercially successful. Mae West herself said: "I believe in censorship, I've made a fortune from it."

Despite the fact that Mae West was rather short and plump, femininity and sexuality turned her shortcomings into advantages. But the actress still went to some tricks to hide her height. She wore platform shoes up to 24 cm high. Floor-length dresses hid this trick.

And on stage, West demanded that during the kissing scenes, the actors stand in special recesses on the stage. So the actress did not need to reach out to men, and they, in turn, did not bend down very much.

Platform shoes by actress Mae West.

Salvador Dali, fascinated by May, created an entire room in the form of the actress' face. The most sensual object in it is called a sofa made in the form of West's lips.

Feminine and sexy Mae West.