Totally Fake Classic Movie Anecdotes: Mae West Edition

“… Miss West was repulsed by the smutty innuendoes written into the script. ‘Can’t we clean this up?’ she’d ask, ‘There’s no place in the pictures for this kind of smutty talk!’ Film crews would also have to watch their salty language in front of Mae, who would not tolerate profanity of any kind. Directors often learned of Miss West’s prudishness the hard way- after someone on the set upset her delicate sensibilities…”