Once the second-highest paid person in the whole country, what famous actress also wrote nine 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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