Frank Carlson Library

Biographer Charlotte Chandler draws on a series of interviews she conducted with the star just months before her death in 1980, as well as interviews with people who worked or lived with her. Actress, playwright, screenwriter, and iconic sex symbol Mae West created a scandal--and a sensation--on Broadway with her play Sex in 1926. Sentenced to ten days in prison for obscenity, she went in a convict and emerged a star. Her next play, Diamond Lil, was...

Draws on final-decade interviews to reveal the public and private lives of the iconic Hollywood actress, in a portrait that discusses her four marriages and her feelings about her daughter's uncomplimentary account of their relationship.