MAE WEST: BETWEEN THE COVERS and parlayed that impressive debut

and parlayed that impressive debut role into a two-decade string of heroic leads

Poltergeist

JOE PALOOKA

THE SHADOW and MURDER AT MIDNIGHT

and author of The Great American Paperback (2001)

MAE WEST: BETWEEN THE COVERS and parlayed that impressive debutCollected for the first time are some of the most revealing, amusing, and rare interviews covering Mae Wests ten year career in movies. Wests celluloid image was explosive and trendsetting, but her outspoken and progressive thoughts about women and sexuality shocked and seduced the public. Her feminist riffs and screenplays made her a cultural icon for sexuality and social subversion. In the 1930s, she was not only considered scandalous, but