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Raquel Welch on Myra Breckinridge, Mae West, and Janis Joplin
Actress Raquel Welch calls her 1970 film version of Myra Breckinridge , in which she played a transgender woman, a "stinker" and hopes someone remakes it as the "funny and erudite" movie it should be, in an interview with Out .
Thursday Feb 9 | PlanetOut
The screen legend talks 'Myra Breckinridge,' Janis Joplin and Mae West's preferred lighting with Out.com's Mark Peikert.
'I'm an occidental woman in an Oriental mood for love," sings the curvaceous Queen of Innuendo, Mae West, sporting a bespangled pseudo-Chinese headdress in the 1936 film "Klondike Annie." The scene is classic West and pure Hollywood kitsch.
CD review: 'Cary Grant: Screen Legend Collection'
From the moment he arrived in Hollywood in 1932, after a brief fling as a British vaudevillian, Cockney-accented Archibald Alexander Leach was destined to be a leading man with a classic sense of comedy and virility.
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