Mae Day: Celebrate Mae West's Birthday with Us! (FREE with Museum Admission)

Come celebrate Mae West's Birthday at the Museum on Saturday, August 17, and enjoy our Out with the Stars:  Hollywood’s Famous and Forgotten Haunts exhibit too! 

Regular Museum Admission required: $14 for non-members, FREE for members (join today!).

In celebration of all things Mae, Larry Edmunds Bookshop is hosting reknowned author Michael Gregg Michaud to talk about Mae and sign copies of his books for purchase. He is also exhibiting exclusive artifacts from her controversial & highly entertaining nightclub act in the Museum for one day only. Additional collectors will also display items for the birthday celebration only!

Museum opens at 11:00am and Michael Gregg Michaud will be giving a brief discussion on Mae West beginning at noon.

See our exhibit and join the birthday festivities with refreshments and treats as we celebrate one of Hollywood's most famous mavens because “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” - Mae West. 

About the Author: Michael Gregg Michaud is the author of the critically acclaimed, best-selling, Lambda Book Award nominated, Sal Mineo, A Biography (Random House, 2010), a pick of the month in Los Angeles Magazine and by Turner Classic Movies, which appeared on Leonard Maltin’s recommended holiday list in December 2010, and was later adapted for the screen as a feature film, "Sal," by James Franco.  

Michaud is the co-author with actress Diane McBain of Famous Enough, A Hollywood Memoir (BearManor Media, 2014).  He wrote the Classic Images 2017 Best Book of the Year, and two-time 2018 Next Generation Indie Book Award nominated biography, Alan Sues, A Funny Man (BearManor Media, 2016).  He edited and annotated Mae West Between the Covers (BearManor Media, 2018), which was nominated for the 2019 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Best Anthology, and wrote Mae West Broadcast Muse (BearManor Media, 2019), which was nominated for the 2021 Next Generation Indie Award for Humor/Comedy.  Michaud also edited and annotated Marlene Dietrich Between the Covers (BearManor Media, 2020), and wrote Surfside 6: In Miami Beach (BearManor Media, 2022), and Inventing Troy Donahue, A Biography (BearManor Media, 2023) which was featured on the cover of Closer Magazine.  Mae West and Her Adonises was published in 2024.  Michaud edited and updated actress Tippi Hedren’s book, The Cats of Shambala (Shambala Press, 1992), edited artist Beatrice Wood’s book, Touching Certain Things (Fortunate Rhythm Books, 1992), and contributed to Linda Blair’s book, Going Vegan (SHA, Inc., 2001).  He writes about Hollywood, and has contributed to numerous books about show business and the arts.  And he has introduced several film screenings for the American Cinematheque in Hollywood.  He also appears in the 2012 Biography Channel documentary, Hollywood’s Most Notorious Crimes (Sharp Entertainment), and in the 2019 feature length documentary film, Steven Arnold: Heavenly Bodies.  He is also a contributor to the 2020 PBS American Masters feature documentary, Mae West – Dirty Blonde.”