Mae West Lines
Come up and see me sometime! (repeated with slight variations).
It was the changing tone of the voice, sometimes mid-sentence, her attitude.
West often played outcasts, showgirls, kept women, which offered her opportunity to satirize sexual hypocrisies and double standards.
Oh, Beulah, peel me a grape!
It’s not the men in your life that count, it’s the life in your men.
When I’m good I’m very good. But when I’m bad I’m even better.
Do you believe in love at first sight? Mae West is asked by Allison Skipworth.
Her response: I don’t know, but it sure saves time.
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