George Davis wrote about Mae West in Vanity Fair (1934): “ I can pay you no greater tribute, dear lady, than to say that [my love for you] has healed the wound in my heart caused by the death of Bert Savoy. I love you, Miss West, because YOU are the greatest female impersonator of all time.”
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