A La Broadway (Stage 1911)

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Vera Violetta (Stage 1911-1912)

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A Winsome Widow (Stage 1912)

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Sometime (Stage 1918)

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The Mimic World (Stage 1921)

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Frisco Kate (Stage 1921)

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Sex - (Stage 1926-1927)

Mae West as "Margy LaMont"

Margy LaMont, is a sharp-witted sex worker who struggles to find a better life. Margy wants to find a new life by marrying a well-to-do man, and must deal with her choice between two suitors. 

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The Drag (Stage 1927, did not perform)

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The Wicked Age (Stage 1927)

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Diamond Lil (Stage 1928)

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Pleasure Man (Stage 1928)

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The Constant Sinner (Stage 1931)

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Night After Night (Film 1932)

Mae West as "Maudie Triplett"

Joe Anton is a speakeasy owner who falls in love with socialite Miss Healy. He takes lessons in high-class mannerisms from Mrs. Jellyman. Joe does not know that Miss Healy only pays attention to him because he lives in the fancy apartment that her family lost in the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Joe decides to instead pursue his old flame Iris Dawn just as Miss Healy begins to genuinely fall in love with him.

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She Done Him Wrong (Film 1933)

Mae West as "Lady Lou"

Burlesque barroom singer Lady Lou knows everyone in town, especially the men. Unfortunately, her convict ex-boyfriend Chick Clark is the jealous type and vows violence against her if she behaves unfaithfully while he's in prison. To make matters worse, Lou's boss, Gus Jordan, secretly runs a prostitution and counterfeiting ring, and the director of the city mission next door is actually a federal agent. What's a girl to do?

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I'm No Angel (Film 1933)

Mae West as "Tira"

Sharp, seductive and emotionally guarded Tira is a lauded and much-adored circus performer. Her newest suitor, a married New York City socialite named Kirk Lawrence, showers her with gifts. Kirk's cousin, Jack Clayton, goes to Tira to try and convince her to end the affair. The two fall for one another, but when love and happiness risk taking Tira from the stage, her boss plots to break off the engagement and shackle her to the circus forever.

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Belle of the Nineties (Film 1934)

Mae West as "Ruby Carter"

A honky-tonk wisecracker sings the blues and takes a shine to a prizefighter.

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Goin' to Town (Film 1935)

Mae West as "Cleo Borden"

A sassy female cattle rancher, Cleo Borden, wants nothing more than to sashay her way into the moneyed class. Borden sets her sights on an Englishman named Edward Carrington, but she also wants to sink her claws into Ivan Valadov. The only problem is she's already hitched to Fletcher Colton. Borden, however, doesn't let that get in her way, and entrances her suitors with her gruff yet seductive ways.

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Klondike Annie (Film 1936)

Mae West as "The Frisco Doll / Rose Carlton / Sister Annie Alden"

A San Franciscan flees to Alaska, charms a boat captain and poses as a missionary.

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Go West Young Man (Film 1936)

Mae West as "Mavis Arden"

Mavis Arden is a movie star known for her onscreen purity, even though she lives a riotous private life. When she gets involved with politician Francis X. Harrigan against her press agent's wishes, Mavis arranges to see her lover on her personal appearance tour. But she finds herself stranded in a small-town farmhouse after her limousine breaks down, and the situation is made more bearable by the appearance of the handsome Bud Norton.

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Every Day's a Holiday (Film 1937)

Mae West as "Peaches O'Day"

In turn-of-the-century New York City, con artist Peaches O'Day gets into trouble with the law for trying to sell the Brooklyn Bridge, but Jim McCarey, a police captain, likes her enough that he lets her off with a promise from Peaches to leave town. She hatches a scheme instead with the wealthy Van Doon and butler Graves to perform as a singer, calling herself Fifi, disguised in a black wig.

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My Little Chickadee (Film 1940)

Mae West as "Flower Belle Lee"

When a gold-digging singer, Flower Belle Lee, is kidnapped by a masked bandit, the town goes wild with speculation. When she returns unharmed, and is later seen kissing the bandit, she is tried by a judge and thrown out of town. On a train she meets a con man, Cuthbert J. Twillie. Mistaking him for a wealthy man, Lee marries him on the spot. From there the two engage in a series of petty cons and deceits that bring Twillie ever closer to the gallows.

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Tropicana / The Heat's On (Film 1944)

Mae West as "Fay Lawrence"

Slick Broadway operator Tony Ferris battles his strong-willed star, Fay Lawrence, who wants to work for his biggest rival, Forrest Stanton. When Hubert Bainbridge, the acting head of an organization policing morality on Broadway, drops by to get a singing audition for his niece Janey Adair, Ferris hatches a plan to save his struggling show by having it declared indecent, but his scheme ends up working too well.

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Catherine Was Great (Stage 1945)

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Come on Up Ring Twice (Stage 1947)

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Diamond Lil - Revival (Stage 1949, 1950, 1951)

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Klondike Lou (Stage 1959, unsold)

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Mr. Ed  (TV Series 1964)

Mae West as "Mae West"

Episode: "Mae West Meets Mr. Ed"

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Myra Breckinridge (Film 1970)

Mae West as "Myra Breckinridge"

Myron Breckinridge flies to Europe to get a sex-change operation and is transformed into the beautiful Myra. She travels to Hollywood, meets up with her rich Uncle Buck (John Huston) and, claiming to be Myron's widow, demands money. Instead, Buck gives Myra a job in his acting school. There, Myra meets aspiring actor Rusty and his girlfriend, Mary Ann. With Myra as catalyst, the trio begin to outrageously expand their sexual horizons.

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Sextette (Film 1978)

Mae West as "Marlo Manners"

Marlo Manners is an oft-married woman. Her attempts to consummate her sixth union with Sir Michael Barrington are continually interrupted.