She Works At Paramount All Day And Fox All Night

PBS has a documentary out on Mae West.  Makes sense--she certainly was a major star in her day.  And since she wrote her own screenplays, she did it her way. It's just odd what this People article on the doc list as her film highlights:

"The actress, who starred in films such as She Done Him Wrong, I'm No Angel, Sextette and My Little Chickadee..."

Sextette?

Her heyday in movies was short, less than a decade.  After catching the audience's attention in a supporting role in Night After Night (1932), she starred in two 1933 blockbusters--She Done Him Wrong and I'm No Angel.

After Hollywood got stricter censorship in 1934 (partly due to West) and the audience moved on to other names, the rest of her career was downhill.  By the time she made her last film at Paramount, Every Day's A Holiday (1937), some were calling her box office poison.

She made a bit of a comeback in 1940, costarring with W. C. Fields in My Little Chickadee, which is a fun film, if no classic.  But she made one more movie in the 1940s--The Heat's On (1943), a flop--and didn't work in film again until 1970, when she appeared in Myra Breckinridge, a spectacular disaster.

She made one more film in 1977, when she was in her 80s.  This was Sextette, based on a play she wrote.  Sextette is an embarrassment--a slow motion car crash.  It also lost all its money.  That it should be listed as one of her major titles is just weird.