She starred in She Done Him Wrong (with Cary Grant), Belle of the Nineties, and My Little Chickadee (with W. C. Fields), while making a comeback attempt in the offbeat 1970 film Myra Breckenridge (with Raquel Welch). West was a sex symbol, one of the most iconic movie stars of old Hollywood, and subject of the Salvador Dali painting Mae West's Face which May be Used as a Surrealist Apartment.