I can't help feeling they couldn't see the wood for the trees. Entire books have been written about this, so it's odd that the producers of this doco couldn't come up with even one person to express that point of view. West: With a couple or a dozen Till I find out whos a man and whos a mouse Its so nice to have a man around the house Men: We love her dearly. This program is also available on Amazon Prime Video. Dive into the life and career of groundbreaking writer, performer and subversive star Mae West. 'American Masters - Mae West: Dirty Blonde' on DVD, visit Shop PBS.
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And the subject matter and attitudes expressed in her plays and movies are more logically those of the female experience viewed from an outsider (if not precisely a gay male) perspective. American Masters Full Trailer Mae West: Dirty Blonde. Her film and stage performances have a clear and distinct aura of drag. West looks masculine more often than she looks convincingly feminine. But what's really odd about ignoring the enduring legend about West's gender and sexuality is the photographic and film evidence from her life. Mae West: Dirty Blonde is the first major documentary film to explore Wests life and career, as she climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong to.
Her one marriage was quickly abandoned, covered up for a decade, and the husband paid to keep his mouth shut. Dive into the life and career of groundbreaking writer, performer and subversive star Mae West. There certainly isn't any man who has gone on the record about sex with West, including Paul Novak, who insists their 30-year relationship was platonic.
Over a career spanning eight decades, she broke boundaries and possessed creative and economic powers unheard of for a female entertainer in the 1930s. One biography makes a very good case that West never had sex with any man, and nobody ever saw "her" naked. Show title: American Masters Video title: Full Trailer Mae West: Dirty Blonde Video duration: 1m 56s Video description: Dive into the life and career of groundbreaking writer, performer and subversive star Mae West.
In fact, there's a good deal of evidence to support the idea that Mae West was born male, or perhaps a hermaphrodite (with indeterminate sexual organs). Over a career spanning eight decades, she broke boundaries and possessed creative and economic powers unheard of for a female entertainer in. And the theory that Mae was actually a man is only briefly raised and quickly dismissed. Show title: American Masters Video title: Mae West: Dirty Blonde Video duration: 83m 32s Video description: Dive into the life and career of groundbreaking writer, performer and subversive star Mae West. Others blithely accept that certain relationships (for example, with her longtime assistant Paul Novak) were sexual. One commentator assures us that West was quite promiscuous. Along the way it buys into a number of myths cleverly created and marketed by Mae herself, it recycles highly dubious stories around her (alleged) love life, and it even re-frames West as a kind of proto-feminist heroine. It's nice that this rather slapdash doco keeps the legacy to Mae West alive, but it offers only a shallow and somewhat contentious take on her career.
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