Mae West: Dirty Blonde (2020)
Mae West: Dirty Blonde (2020)
Mae West achieved great acclaim in every entertainment medium that existed during her lifetime, spanning eight decades of the 20th century. A full-time actress at seven, a vaudevillian at 14, a dancing sensation at 25, a playwright at 33, a silver screen ingénue at 40, a Vegas nightclub act at 62, a recording artist at 73, a camp icon at 85 - West left no format unconquered. She possessed creative and economic powers unheard of for a female entertainer in the 1930s and still rare today. Though a comedian, West grappled with some of the more complex social issues of the 20th century, including race and class tensions, and imbued even her most salacious plotlines with commentary about gender conformity, societal restrictions and what she perceived as moral hypocrisy. Mae West: Dirty Blonde is the first major documentary film to explore West's life and career, as she "climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong" to become a writer, performer and subversive agitator for social change.

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Mae West Mae West As: Self (archive footage)
Margaret Cho Margaret Cho As: Self
Dita Von Teese Dita Von Teese As: Self
Natasha Lyonne Natasha Lyonne As: Self
Ringo Starr Ringo Starr As: Self
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Mae West achieved great acclaim in every entertainment medium that existed during her lifetime, spanning eight decades of the 20th century. A full-time actress at seven, a vaudevillian at 14, a dancing sensation at 25, a playwright at 33, a silver screen ingénue at 40, a Vegas nightclub act at 62, a recording artist at 73, a camp icon at 85 - West left no format unconquered. She possessed creative and economic powers unheard of for a female entertainer in the 1930s and still rare today. Though a comedian, West grappled with some of the more complex social issues of the 20th century, including race and class tensions, and imbued even her most salacious plotlines with commentary about gender conformity, societal restrictions and what she perceived as moral hypocrisy. Mae West: Dirty Blonde is the first major documentary film to explore West's life and career, as she "climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong" to become a writer, performer and subversive agitator for social change.


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Genres: Documentary, TV Movie

Language: English, Français

Release Date: 16 June 2020

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Runtime: 84m

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Michael Kantor

Michael Kantor

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Cristiana Lombardo

Cristiana Lombardo

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Julia Marchesi

Julia Marchesi

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Hannah Meagher

Hannah Meagher

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Bette Midler

Bette Midler

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Sally Rosenthal

Sally Rosenthal

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