Mae West: Die verruchte Blonde

Directed by Julia Marchesi and Sally Rosenthal
2021    84mDocumentary, Biography,
6.7
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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Cast of Mae West: Die verruchte Blonde

  • Mae WestSelf (archive footage)
  • Margaret ChoSelf
  • Dita Von TeeseSelf
  • Natasha LyonneSelf
  • Ringo StarrSelf
  • Kathy NajimySelf
  • George SchlatterSelf

 

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