Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1893, Aug. 17 | Born Mary Jane West, New York, N.Y. |
| 1905 | Began performing professionally |
| 1911 | Married Frank Wallace (divorced 1943) Appeared on Broadway in A La Broadway |
| 1926 | Wrote, produced, and directed the Broadway show, Sex,which led to her arrest for obscenity |
| 1928 | Diamond Lil became a Broadway hit |
| 1932 | Offered a motion picture contract by Paramount Pictures |
| 1933 | Co-starred on screen with Cary Grant in I'm No Angel |
| 1936 | Starred in Klondike Annie |
| 1937 | Starred in Every Day's a Holidaywith Randolph Scott |
| 1940 | Starred opposite W. C. Fields on screen in My Little Chickadee |
| 1943 | Starred in The Heat's On |
| 1959 | Published Goodness Had Nothing to Do with It; Autobiography. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall |
| 1970 | Appeared in screen version of Myra Breckinridge |
| 1978 | Returned to the screen for a final time in Sextette |
| 1980, Nov. 22 | Died, Los Angeles, Calif. |