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With a penchant for burly muscular working-class men, prize-fighters and the like, Mae was reticient about her off-screen romances, preferring to keep them as private as possible. Contrary to public opinion, she was shockable too - and liked to keep "gutter language" out of her films, and her earshot. While her sympathetic view of gay men as "men in women's bodies" can be viewed as quaintly wrong nowadays, it was at least progressive by the standards of her time.

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