Mae West

Mae West (August 17, 1893 – November 22, 1980) was an American actress, playwright, and sex symbol.

She was born Mary Jane West in Brooklyn, New York, on August 17, 1892 at 10:30 PM (Source notes: Marianne Du

Mae West (August 17, 1893 – November 22, 1980) was an American actress, playwright, and sex symbol.

She was born Mary Jane West in Brooklyn, New York, on August 17, 1892 at 10:30 PM (Source notes: Marianne Dunn quotes Paul Novak, companion to West for 20 years, in 1980. [Reference often given 1893]) the daughter of Irish American John Patrick West (1865-1935) and German Jewish immigrant Matilda ("Tillie") Delker-Doelger (1870-1930). Her sister and brother were Mildred "Beverly" West (1898-1982) and John Edwin West (1900-1964). The family was Protestant despite West's Irish Catholic paternal grandmother and her mother's Bavarian-Jewish roots, as well as some other distant relations who were Roman Catholics, including the woman who helped deliver her, and whose disapproval of West's career Mae was made well aware.