Photograph by Roddy Mcdowell
This unused postcard was printed in 1980.
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Mary Jane "Mae" West (August 17, 1893 – November 22, 1980) was an American actress, singer, playwright, screenwriter, comedian, and sex symbol whose entertainment career spanned seven decades. The American Film Institute named her 15th among the greatest female stars of classic American cinema.
West often used a husky low voice and was one of the more controversial movie stars of her day; she encountered many problems, especially censorship. She once quipped, "I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it."
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This postcard features probably the most well known quote of hers and was postmarked in 2011 from Germany.
Germany (Deutschland) stamp 2005
'Tagetes' (African Marigold flower) 20
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Germany (Deutschland) stamp 2011
Inventions
In Deutschland Zu Hause Einfallsreichtum Deutsche Erfindungen - 55
(At home in Germany, German ingenuity inventions)
Technology:
Gramophone by Emile Berliner in 1887
Tape by Fritz Pfleumer 1928
mp3 from the Fraunhofer Institute in 1987
