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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 Photographer Enters Star’s World
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'Writing in 1934, George Davis lovingly described Mae West as “the greatest female impersonator of all time”. The following year, the daughter of a corset model and a two-bit boxer was the highest-paid woman in the US, having transitioned from burlesque hoofer to actor-playwright to screen star — where she still wrote her own lines.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon The Australian 4 March 2019 18072195 2019 newspaper issue 2019 pg. 14
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