The notorious comedy was based on Gore Vidal’s 1968 novel with Welch playing a transgender woman formerly known as Myron (played by real-life critic Rex Reed). She claims to be Myron’s widow and ends up as a teacher at an acting school run by her uncle (John Huston), where she tries to indoctrinate the students by introducing the concepts of “femdom” into the curriculum. Mae West was seduced into returning to the big screen for her first film role since 1943 as Leticia Van Allen, a lecherous old lady.
