Now this woman didn't mess around with her role as a Sex Symbol. Her first play she wrote was titled "Sex", and after performing it on Broadway for a few weeks, was shut down for indecency laws. Mae served 10 days in jail, but kept it real by sleeping with the warden in exchange for a silk prison uniform (wool can be chafing during prison sex).

Obviously having learned her lesson, Mae's next play was called "The Drag" and was about homosexuality, also getting banned from Broadway. Her final play was called "The Pleasure Man" and no dice again for Broadway.

Mae packed up and headed to Hollywood, where she became the famous Sex Symbol we all remember her for. Mae is particularly famous for her quotes of "Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me", "when I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better", and finally "I remember our date and have the splinters to prove it".

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1940's - Betty Grable ->

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