Mae West wasn't just a campy actress, but a playwright as well. Her first play, Sex, written in 1926, was about a Canadian prostitute. A production in New York City led to her imprisonment for more than a week on obscenity charges. [Prostitutes themselves did less time.] Her second play, Drag, was about transvestites. It got shut down on Broadway before it could even open.
Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo, It Takes a Certain Type To Be a Writer, 2003
Erin Barrett and Jack Mingo, It Takes a Certain Type To Be a Writer, 2003
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