Mae WestThe author of many of the plays in which she appeared, West frequently drew the attention of the police for her salacious dialogue. She was prosecuted for her plays Sex (1926) and Pleasure Man (1928) under obscenity statutes. She appeared in the films I'm No Angel (1933), Klondike Annie (1935), and My Little Chickadee (1940), among many others. West returned to the stage in the 1940s with Catherine Was Great (1946), and in the 1950s she put together a popular Las Vegas nightclub act. Her autobiography, Goodness Had Nothing to Do with It, was published in 1959, and she appeared in her last movie, Sextette, in 1978. The collection includes contracts, scripts, correspondence, and clippings, among other materials.