How tall was Mae West?

Mae West is commonly listed at 5 ft 0 in (152.4 cm).

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Mae West’s 5 ft 0 in (152.4 cm) is short for a US woman: about 11 in 100 US women are shorter.

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Mae West beside others

Mae West is one of the shorter actors we have heights for: Sun Mingming (7 ft 9 in) stands 2 ft 9 in (83.6 cm) taller and Verne Troyer (2 ft 8 in) is 2 ft 4 in (71.1 cm) shorter. All 1,404 ranked, tallest first.

Also listed at 5 ft 0 in: Rhea Perlman, Jada Pinkett Smith and Quinta Brunson.

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Where this height comes from

5 ft 0 in (152.4 cm)

A commonly listed height: it appears across many profiles, but none says when or how it was measured, so shoes and rounding may be part of the number.

Photo: Paramount Pictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped.

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Mae West, 5 ft 0 in (152 cm), drawn to scale beside the average US man, 5 ft 9 in (175 cm), and the average US woman, 5 ft 3.5 in (161 cm)