Mae West & Her Adonises

Mae West & Her Adonises

by Michael Gregg Michaud

402 pages

6x9

ISBN 9798887714417 paperback

"A thorough collection of Mae West-related press materials, photographs, advertisements, and more on a rarely documented part of her career. Will likely appeal to West devotees and researchers." 
- Library Journal

Being provocative and challenging the mores of society always informed Mae West’s playbook.  Her controversial and hugely entertaining nightclub act in the 1950s reminded fans and critics alike that she remained a thoughtful social critic. “Pushing the envelope” was nothing new for the actress, and was still an effective and memorable gimmick. Her objectification of men – nearly stripped bare from head to toe and paraded around the stage for an audience – was the complete opposite of what had been seen and celebrated before in the fields of live entertainment. Her shameless exploitation of the male body not only titillated the females in her audience, it forever changed the way men were physically objectified in the public eye. “All this steak,” she would say, “and no potatoes.”

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