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- catalog abstract "Collection includes family photographs; contracts, affadavits, and other financial documents; scripts; correspondence (no letters by West); clippings, correspondence, pamphlets, etc., concerning spiritualism, Rev. T.J. Kelly, and Lily Dale, a spiritualist camp; photographs of her companion Charles Krausner; and audiotapes of West and others.".
- catalog contributor b12610824.
- catalog date "1928".
- catalog description "Actress and writer, Mae West (1893-1980) was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., the daughter of Matilda (Tillie) Delker Doelger and John Patrick West. On stage almost continously by the age of seven, West sang and danced with Frank Wallace, whom she secretly married in 1911. They were divorced in 1942; she never had children.".
- catalog description "Collection includes family photographs; contracts, affadavits, and other financial documents; scripts; correspondence (no letters by West); clippings, correspondence, pamphlets, etc., concerning spiritualism, Rev. T.J. Kelly, and Lily Dale, a spiritualist camp; photographs of her companion Charles Krausner; and audiotapes of West and others.".
- catalog description "Mae West Papers. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.".
- catalog description "The author of many of the plays in which she appeared, West frequently drew the attention of the police for her salacious dialogue. She was prosecuted for her plays, Sex (1926) and Pleasure Man (1928), under the obscenity statutes, and, moving to Hollywood in the early 1930s, she ran into frequent trouble with the censors. She appeared in I'm No Angel (1933), Klondike Annie (1935), and My Little Chickadee (1940) among many others. West returned to the stage in the 1940s with Catherine Was Great (1946), and in the 1950s she put together a popular Las Vegas nightclub act. Her autobiography, Goodness Had Nothing To Do With It, was published in 1959 and she appeared in her last movie, Sextette, in 1978.".
- catalog extent "2.5 linear ft. (2 cartons, 1 file box)".
- catalog issued "1928".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "Actresses United States.".
- catalog subject "Kelly, T. J.".
- catalog subject "Krausner, Charles.".
- catalog subject "Lily Dale Assembly (Lily Dale, N.Y.)".
- catalog subject "Motion picture actors and actresses United States.".
- catalog subject "Spiritualism United States.".
- catalog subject "West, Mae.".
- catalog title "Papers, 1928-1984 (inclusive).".
- catalog type "Audiotapes. local".
- catalog type "Scripts (documents). aat".
- catalog type "collection".