“I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.”

— Mae West

Interview http://books.google.com/books?id=jU8EAAAAMBAJ&q=%22I+used+to+be+Snow+White+but+I+drifted%22&pg=PA64-IA1#v=onepage in Life magazine (18 April 1969)

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American actress and sex symbol 1893–1980

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