Hollywood Pre-Code Cult Actress Mae West, Vintage Glamour Photo with original Signature, 1940, framed Mae West. Original photograph with autographed dedication. Silver gelatin print. Vintage, circa 1940. 16.4 x 11.3 cm / 6.45 x 4.45 inches. Framed, size 32,3 x 24,2 cm / 12,71 x 9,52 inch. Foto under glass in excellent condition, frame with some chips on the edges, and traces of wear. With a handwritten dedication to Ethel Smith (probably the famous organist). “To Ethel Smith, Sincerely Mae West”, with customized mat and framed, USA ca. 1940. Signed on the frame below, recessed in the mat. Mae West is famous for being a trailblazing actress, writer, and sex symbol known for her witty, bawdy humor and sexual frankness, challenging censorship in the 1930s with double entendres in her plays and films like She Done Him Wrong and I'm No Angel, famously writing her own material and becoming a cultural icon whose influence shaped Hollywood and even named World War II life vests. Mae West was famous for her suggestive, witty one-liners about men, love, and life, often using double entendres, with iconic quotes like "When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better," "Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?" and "A hard man is good to find". She often played with societal norms, asserting female agency and desire with lines such as, "I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it," and "When women go wrong, men go right after them!". Weight: 500 gr.