Mae West liked to be seen. As a precocious 7-year-old, she stepped onto the stage at the Royal Theatre in her native Brooklyn, New York, for a talent contest and immediately caused a fuss.

How ironic to see Mae West’s proud, glamorous wit celebrated by a gaggle of unhappy women, the usual PBS roundup of academics and literary figures. Few of them are worthy to salute West.

The film "Sextette," which Mae West made at age 87, was actually a "radical power move." The film "Sextette," which Mae West made when she was in her 80's, was actually a "radical power move ...

Salvador Dali's Mae West Lips Sofa in front of L'oeil fleuri, décor pour le ballet Tristan fou at Christie's in London, 2017. Photo: Daniel Leal/AFP via Getty Images.

There weren’t many individuals in old Hollywood like Mae West, a bold comic performer who was at least 50 years ahead of her time in terms of her material and command of her career. She was born ...

Mae West didn’t invent sex, but she certainly perfected the art of talking about it. The Broadway-turned-Hollywood bombshell was brash, brassy, and had an appetite for trouble. In short, she was ...

The Mae West Lips Sofa is the centerpiece of an installation at the Dalí Theatre and Museum.(Wikimedia Commons) ... It is a masterpiece of Pop Art, 25 years before Pop was invented. ...

Major funding for Mae West: Dirty Blonde is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Better Angels Society, Brice Brown, The Carson Family Charitable Trust, Leslie and Roslyn ...

Mae West 1926. In the mid-1920s, after a career in vaudeville, 30-year-old actress/comedienne Mae West endeavors to make herself a star on Broadway.