At one point the second-highest paid person in the whole country, what famous actress also wrote thirteen of the films she starred in?

“Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a present." Mae West was known for her turn of phrase, which is why she made for a great writer of films – in fact, she wrote nine of the 13 films she appeared in. No wonder, she was not only the highest paid Hollywood actor in 1935, but the second highest paid human being in the U.S., after newspaper tycoon, William Randolph Hearst.

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