West was one of the most controversial movie stars of her day; she encountered problems especially with censorship. She once quipped, "I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it."<a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_West#cite_note-Weekes2011-4"> </a>She bucked the <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studio_system">studio system</a> by making comedy out of conventional beliefs, and the <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression">Depression</a>-era audience admired her for it. When her film career ended, she wrote books and plays, continued to perform in <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas">Las Vegas</a> and London and on radio and television, and recorded <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_roll">rock and roll</a> albums. In 1999, the <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Film_Institute">American Film Institute</a> posthumously voted her the <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFI%27s_100_Years...100_Stars">15th-greatest female screen legend</a> of <a target="_blank" rel="ugc" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Hollywood_cinema">classic American cinema</a>.

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