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Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936, at the railway station in Los Angeles upon her return from Chicago, when a Los Angeles police officer was assigned to escort her home)
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Mae West
Age: 87 †
Born: 1893
Born: August 17
Died: 1980
Died: November 22
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