Mae West

Edition trilingue français-anglais-allemand

James Ursini

192 pages, parution le 02/04/2008

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Résumé

In terms of celebrity icons, few attained the highest levels of fame and controversy as rapidly as Mae West. Labeled a "pornographer" by censorship boards, she was also one of 1930s Hollywood's most lucrative box-office draws (causing Variety in 1933 to label the star "as hot an issue as Hitler"). Nicknamed by critic George Jean Nathan "the Statue of Libido" and paid homage to in the title song of Cole Porter's musical Anything Goes, her voluptuous image and signature platinum blond air became recognizable worldwide and for decades beyond her prime years of fame in the 1930s. In fact, even by the 1960s when the Beatles wanted to use her image on the cover of their Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, those long-haired icons of a new generation were required to deliver a handwritten plea to the icon (which they dutifully did), since West herself always objected, as she said, to belonging to any "lonely hearts club."

Edition trilingue français-anglais-allemand.

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Taschen
Auteur(s)	James Ursini
Parution	02/04/2008
Nb. de pages	192
Format	15 x 21
Couverture	Broché
Poids	390g
Intérieur	Quadri
EAN13	9783822823217
ISBN13	978-3-8228-2321-7