West, Mae /meɪ/
(1892–1980) a US film actress, famous for being sexually attractive, whose films include She Done Him Wrong (1933) and I’m No Angel (1933). She is known especially for making clever, amusing remarks which are really about sex but which seem to have more than one meaning. She is supposed to have said ‘Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?’ She is remembered especially for saying ‘Come up and see me sometime’, although the words she actually used were ‘Why don’t you come up sometime and see me?’ ⇒ Mae West

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