Days of Love: Celebrating LGBT History One Story at a Time Paperback – January 29, 2026
by Elisa Rolle
Partner Pola Negri
Queer Places:
Mission Park Cemetery, 1700 SE Military Dr, San Antonio, TX 78214, Stati Uniti
Margaret West (September 10, 1903 – July 29, 1963) was a Texan heiress, vaudeville performer and later radio hostess.
Margaret West was born in San Antonio, Texas, the daughter of George Washington West (1879-1956), the man who in 1913 built George West, Texas, and Robbie Bedell (1880-1959).
West became a vaudeville performer and sung Western songs dressed as a cowgirl.[1] In 1948 she was a retired radio personality with homes on Santa Monica beach and in Bel-Air.[1] Pola Negri moved in with her and they became notorious party hostesses, at the same time building up a collection of artworks.[2]
At the death of West's father in 1956, West and Negri moved to San Antonio and, after a period spent in an hotel, moved on Olmos Drive,[3] where they lived until West's death on July 29, 1963.[4] Negri was the chief beneficiary to West's estate, receiving $1,250 a month ($9,992 in 2017 dollars) and the use of West's home and ownership of all furniture and art objects in the house.[5] In her autobiography, talking about West, Negri said, "It was difficult for some of the so-called sophisticates to understand that there had not been... the slightest tinge of the sexual to what we shared together."[6][1]
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