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Hottie:
Mae West |
The
Ranking (Circa 1933):
Breasts - 92/100
Body - 90/100
Face - 79/100
Eyes - 75/100
Talent - 89/100
Overall - 87/100 |
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| The
Writeup: A veteran of burlesque, vaudeville and Broadway,
Mae West didn't come to Hollywood for the movies until she
had hit what you would call midlife, but she had a flourishing
career on the stage prior to her first film, Night After Night
(1932). In fact, Miss West wrote most of her own stage plays,
and even had one of them, titled Sex, shut down for it's supposed
obscenity. She put together several other starring vehicles
for herself before signing a contract with Paramount in 1932,
at the ripe old age (for Hollywood) of 39. What followed was
something of an anomaly, in that Mae became a huge star, one
of the biggest in Hollywood, at an age when most women are
playing motherly roles. Mae was instead playing the sexpot,
lighting up the screens in She Done Him Wrong (1933), her
second film that happened to be based on her play Diamond
Lil'. Paramount gave her a big star build up for this film,
and it's success is credited with saving Paramount from bankruptcy
(it was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar). I'm No Angel
(1933) was her second starring role and it was equally as
successful. By 1935 she was the highest salaried woman in
America, and made more memorable films, including Belle of
the Nineties (1934), Goin' to Town (1935), Klondike Annie
(1936), Go West Young Man (1936), Every Day's a Holiday (1937)
and My Little Chickadee (1940), all of which she wrote, at
least in part. After 1943 she only appeared in one more two
more films, the unsuccessful Myra Breckinridge (1970) and
Sextette (1978). |
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