Mae West: Dirty Blonde

June. 16,2020      
Rating:
6.6
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Mae West achieved great acclaim in every entertainment medium that existed during her lifetime, spanning eight decades of the 20th century. A full-time actress at seven, a vaudevillian at 14, a dancing sensation at 25, a playwright at 33, a silver screen ingénue at 40, a Vegas nightclub act at 62, a recording artist at 73, a camp icon at 85 - West left no format unconquered. She possessed creative and economic powers unheard of for a female entertainer in the 1930s and still rare today. Though a comedian, West grappled with some of the more complex social issues of the 20th century, including race and class tensions, and imbued even her most salacious plotlines with commentary about gender conformity, societal restrictions and what she perceived as moral hypocrisy. Mae West: Dirty Blonde is the first major documentary film to explore West's life and career, as she "climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong" to become a writer, performer and subversive agitator for social change.

Mae West as  Self (archive footage)
Margaret Cho as  Self
Dita Von Teese as  Self
Natasha Lyonne as  Self
Ringo Starr as  Self
Kathy Najimy as  Self

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Reviews

Console
2020/06/16

best movie i've ever seen.

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Dotbankey
2020/06/17

A lot of fun.

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TrueHello
2020/06/18

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

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Calum Hutton
2020/06/19

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

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