Forgotten Hollywood: Mae West
April 26, 1926 was the opening night of “SEX”, a play written, produced by and starring Mae West. It played at Daly’s 63rd Street Theatre in Manhattan, got scathing reviews (the New York Times called it “a crude and inept play, cheaply produced and poorly acted”), packed houses through that year and into the next, was seen by 325,000 people, and landed West in jail.
