Nov 7, 2012 | KQED
Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her
Born in a working-class section of Brooklyn, she became a show-business giant, a personality so distinctive she transformed forever the way women and sex would be presented on stage, in films, radio, TV and cabarets around the world.
By 1935 Leo McCarey had already been the guiding force between teaming Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.