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TIL That Mae West, the Pre-Code Queen, got arrested multiple times for obscenity, even having her play “Drag” taken off Broadway for having homosexual content. She went on to become one of the most famous film stars of the 1930s, being the originator of the phrase “Come up and see me sometime.”

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