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Mae West
It Ain't No Sin
by Simon Louvish
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Mae West: It Ain't No Sin
November 27, 2007, St. Martin's Griffin
Paperback
in English
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Mae West: It Ain't No Sin
November 14, 2006, Thomas Dunne Books
Hardcover
in English
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Table of Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Prologue: Come Up and See Me ix
PART ONE
Rap Rap Rap
1 More Sunlight and Less Smoke 3
2 Made Ready for the Footlights 9
3 In Dahomey 16
4 'I Always Wanted Attention . . .' 25
5 'There Is Never Enough Hot Water in the Dressing Rooms' 35
6 Very Violetta, Et Cetera 41
PART TWO
The Low-and-Behold Girl
7 Looking Pretty and Saying Cute Things 55
8 'No Vulgarity Whatsoever!' 62
9 Of Jimmy and the Shimmy 70
10 'What Do You Have to Do to Get It?' 77
11 To a Rag and a Bone and a Hank of Hair . . . 86
12 You've Gotta Have a Certain Something 97
PART THREE
Sex, Drag and Rocky Roads
13 Never Has Disgrace Fallen So Heavily . . . 113
14 The Scarlet Sisterhood for Life 123
15 'Every One in the Police Force is Not a Dancer' 132
16 The Wicked Age 139
17 I Want to Be Bad! 149
18 Miss Don't Give a Damn 162
19 The Constant Sinner 172
20 'Song's Words Don't Offend, But Tune Does' 181
PART FOUR
Belle of the Thirties
21 Being Bad in a Nice Town 195
22 Coming Soon: The Street of Scarlet Memories . . . 208
23 'If He Swallows It, I'll Buy It' - The Legend Begins 215
24 'Beulah - Peel Me a Grape!' 224
25 A Diversion - The Secret Life of Mae West 240
26 The Devil's Daughter 249
27 A Member in Good Standing 267
28 Revenge of the Song-and-Dance Man 282
29 The Devil's Daughter Revisited 287
30 The Fifty Monkeys, and Other Primates 303
31 Flutter By, Little Butterfly 313
PART FIVE
Herself Alone
32 Off Screen as On . . . 329
33 'Mae West Haunted by Dead Romance . . .' 345
34 Catherine Was Great - But She Drifted . . . 356
35 Mae West, with Diamonds, Arrived . . . 368
36 Crossing the Sahara . . . 378
37 Is This the End - Or Are We Just Beginning? 390
38 Something Left Over, or Who Do You Sleep With to Get Off This Film? 397
39 'The Last of Living Legends' 407
EPILOGUE
40 Of Short Weddings and Long Honeymoons 413
APPENDICES
Notes on Sources 425
Chronology, Stage Plays and Filmography 451
Select Bibliography 467
Acknowledgements 471
Index 473
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