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West was a ground-breaker, and someone who understood people all too well - the plays she wrote "The Drag" (with an all-gay cast) and "Sex", were named specifically because she knew the adverse publicity and right-wing outrage would be better than a million dollars of advertising - and she was right. Prepared to suffer for what she believed in - West went to prison more than once for refusing to back down to censorship laws. Indeed, when she first started out, censorship was a different matter completely, and she took advantage of this - making films in the early 1930s such as "She Did Him Wrong" and "I'm No Angel". These pictures are refreshing to watch - and a little strange too. You don't expect people in black and white films to behave like Mae West. But she does.

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