10.26.2006

"I used to be Snow White, but I drifted."

Quote attributed to Mae West by Yale librarian Fred R. Shapiro in a book debunking popularly repeated quotations. West never used the line, "Is that a gun in your pocket or are you just happy to see me," in a movie, Shapiro says, but did pose the famous question to a policeman assigned to escort her.

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