Queye TV Mae West: Dirty Blonde
Documentary
Mae West: Dirty Blonde
2020
1:24
★ 6.9
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.

Cast

Mae West

Self (archive footage)

Dita Von Teese

Self

Natasha Lyonne

Self

Ringo Starr

Self

Kathy Najimy

Self

Margaret Cho

Self

George Schlatter

Self

Crew

Cristiana Lombardo

Associate Producer

Hannah Meagher

Co-Producer

Bette Midler

Executive Producer

Sally Rosenthal

Producer

Julia Marchesi

Producer

Michael Kantor

Executive Producer

Sally Rosenthal

Director

Julia Marchesi

Director

Recommended

Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century

Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century

1998 ★ 7.7

 Idris Elba: Our Knife Crime Crisis

Idris Elba: Our Knife Crime Crisis

2025 ★ 3.4

 Jane by Charlotte

Jane by Charlotte

2022 ★ 6.9

 Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

1952 ★ 7.5

 Bola de Nieve

Bola de Nieve

2003 ★ 6.3

Info provided by The Movie Database. Watch sources provided by JustWatch.