Mae West
From a 1965 issue of TV Guide: At 72 (give or take a few years) MAE WEST has not ceased to attract males BY DWIGHT WHITNEY "Come up and see me sometime.. ." --Mae West as Diamond Lil (to the Salvation Army captain in her own 1928 play) For more years than a lady likes to count, Mac West—the first, the funniest and, some say, the greatest of all the modern sex symbols — has been issuing the same amusing yet infinitely promising invitation. And for a large part of those years audiences have been enthusiastically succumbing to the forcefulness of a unique and apparently indestructible personality. Mae — if she will forgive the intimacy — has lived 72 years that she admits to. She is still invitin 'em up to see her sometime. And they are accepting with alacrity. She has, as it were, invited producer-director Arthur Lubin up. The result was an appearance with Mister Ed, strictly tongue-in-cheek, which turned out to be one of the unexpected comedy delights of last seas...
