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Mae West Trivia
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- Hollywood's outrageous, self-proclaimed psychic Criswell predicted in 1955 that she would win the 1960 Presidential election, and would fly to the moon in 1965 with he and friend Liberace!
- She was famous for her morning enemas, which she claimed made her skin like silk.
- She was with George Raft in both her first (Night After Night (1932)) and last (Sextette (1978)) film.
- Is sometimes credited with originating the Shimmy (a once-popular dance).
- Appears on sleeve of The Beatles "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". West at first declined to be pictured on the cover ("What would I be doing in a lonely hearts club?!"), but reconsidered when the Beatles sent her a handwritten personal request.
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