Mae West and the Count

<p>Mae West & The Count takes you inside Mae’s relationship with the man who launched her career and stole her heart.</p><p>Set in the first half of the 20th Century this is the heretofore untold story of the torrid romance lust-filled five-year marriage and entwined show business careers of the Vaudeville headliner "Deiro" and the "Queen of Camp" Mae West.</p><p>Unpublicized by mutual agreement the improbable humorous and often heartbreaking personal and professional relationship between the Italian nobleman who rose to “rock-star” fame and the Brooklyn-born fifth-grade dropout who became a show business legend and an icon of sexual freedom is intimately and elegantly exposed in this volume.</p><p>"I couldn't help myself – “D” was an amazing lover. The sex thing was terrific with this guy. I wanted to do it morning noon and night and that's all I wanted to do. “<br />-Mae West Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It (1959).</p><p>“It went very deep hittin' on all the emotions. You can't get too hot over anybody unless there's somethin' that goes along with the sex act can you?"<br />-Mae West Goodness Had Nothing to Do With It (1959).</p>