Mae West: Dirty Blonde | Official Trailer | American Masters | PBS

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Mae West: Dirty Blonde explores the extraordinary life of a legendary artist. The supreme agent provocateur of the 20th century, West subverted societal norms with her defiantly liberated persona, and the “girl who lost her reputation and never missed it” became the world’s highest paid woman, despite constant censorship for pushing the boundaries of female sexual expression. Premieres Tuesday, June 16 at 8/7c.

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Mae West achieved great acclaim in every medium of entertainment 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 Broadway 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 she was 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.

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