138: Mae West (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 12)
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I'm No Angel by Busby Berkeley
I'm no angel was the fourth highest grossing movie of 19 33. Within her first full year in hollywood, may had not just starred in, but helped to generate material for two of the biggest block busters of the year. It is likely that may's massive success and the power she had so swiftly accrued as a woman who made money for the industry peddling ideas of female liber on and walking the walk by writing those films herself,. That caused critics to mount a campaign to bring her down.
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