Come Up and Signify Me: Mae West Meets Academia
Mae West: An Icon in Black and White , by Jill Watts. Oxford University Press, 362 pages, $35.
Poor Mae West! First, struggling up the hard way-the not-quite-savory background, burlesque, vaudeville; notoriety (well, she enjoyed that); sneered at by the classy side of Broadway and later of Hollywood (Miriam Hopkins huffed of her own Read More
