American Masters · SEASON 34
Mae West: Dirty Blonde
Episode 2 · 2020-06-16
- Documentary
Episode overview
American Masters — Mae West: Dirty Blonde is the first major documentary film to explore Mae West’s life and career as she "climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong" to become a writer, performer and subversive agitator for social change. West achieved great acclaim in every entertainment medium that existed during her lifetime, spanning eight decades of the 20th century. She possessed creative and economic powers unheard of for a female entertainer in the 1930s and still rare today.
90 minutes
Season 34 episodes
1. Miles Davis Birth of the Cool2020-03-03
2. Mae West: Dirty Blonde2020-06-16
3. Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am2020-06-01
4. Unladylike2020: The Changemakers2020-07-10
5. Walter Winchell: The Power of Gossip2020-10-20
6. Michael Tilson Thomas: Where Now Is2020-10-23
7. Keith Haring: Street Art Boy2020-12-04
8. Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page2020-12-29
