MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2008048182
003 DLC
005 20090717115655.0
008 081110s2009 nyuaf 001 0beng
010 $a 2008048182
020 $a9781416579090
020 $a1416579095
035 $a(OCoLC)232979207
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050 00 $aPN2287.W4566$bC43 2009
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035 $a(OCoLC)ocn232979207
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dBTCTA$dYDXCP$dC#P$dBUR$dCDX$dDLC
100 1 $aChandler, Charlotte.
245 10 $aShe always knew how :$bMae West, a personal biography /$cCharlotte Chandler.
250 $a1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
260 $aNew York :$bSimon & Schuster,$c2009.
300 $axiii, 317 p., [16] p. of plates :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
520 $aBiographer 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 a smash, and she would play variations on Diamond Lil for virtually her entire career. In 1930s Hollywood she saved Paramount Studios from bankruptcy. Her screenplays included some notorious one-liners that have become part of Hollywood lore, but behind the clever quips was Mae's deep desire to see women treated equally with men. She fought the double standard of the time that permitted men things that women would be ruined for doing.--From publisher description.
600 10 $aWest, Mae.
650 0 $aMotion picture actors and actresses$zUnited States$vBiography.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0902/2008048182-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0903/2008048182-d.html
856 41 $3Sample text$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0905/2008048182-s.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0905/2008048182-t.html