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Mae Jane West |
| Baby Vamp (as a child) |
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Mae West |
"The Lady with the Famous Walk"
started her career in Vaudeville at a very young age. Studied dance
as a child with Ned Wayburn and would be billed as the "Baby
Vamp." Would later star in movies, and made her big screen
debut in 1932 in the movie entitled "Night after Night."
Her last film before censorship forced her out of Hollywood was
"The Heat Is On" in 1943. It would be over twenty years
before she made another film.
She would later appear on television and write
her own plays / manuscripts, such as "Sex" (1926) for
which she would be arrested. It is said she created the "Shimmy
Sha Wabble" dance (aka the Shimmy.) However Gilda
Gray is the more popular theory due thru her use of Advertising.
Mae West would later challenge Gray and Bee Palmer's claim by stating
it was her who first did the Shimmy
and Palmer and Gray copied her and capitalized on it. West goes
on to say "she didn't care as she wanted to be known as an
actress not a dancer." However the "Bulfrog Hop"
song written in 1908 pre dates Gray's, Palmer and West's stories
by 10 years. |
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Spouse |
Offspring |
Brooklyn, NY |
8/17/1893 - 11/22/1980 |
Frank Wallace |
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Vaudeville, Burlesque, Broadway |
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1928 - Diamond Lil |
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