In Popular Culture In the 1937 film Stand-In, the stage mother (Anne O'Neal) who has her young daughter (Marianne Edwards) auditioning for Dodd (Leslie Howard) tells her: "Now, do the Mae West number". During World War II, Allied aircrews called their yellow inflatable, vest-like life preserver jackets "Mae Wests" partly from rhyming slang for "breasts"[141] and "life vests" and partly because of the resemblance to her torso. A "Mae West" is also a type of round parachute malfunction (partial inversion) which contorts the shape of the canopy into the appearance of an extraordinarily large brassiere. West has been the subject of songs, including the title song of Cole Porter's Broadway musical Anything Goes and in "You're the Top". Surrealist artist Salvador Dalí painted works entitled Face of Mae West Which May be Used as an Apartment, and the Mae West Lips Sofa, which was also by Dalí and completed in 1938 for Edward James. Several Mae West comedy lines are used in the parody musical Wild Side Story (1973–2004). In 1982 actress Ann Jillian portrayed West in a television bio film, Mae West. In 2000 Dirty Blonde, written by Claudia Shear, opened on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theater. MAE-West – "Metropolitan Area Exchange, West", a former Internet exchange point on the west coast of the United States, with a corresponding MAE-East exchange point. In 2016, Mae West was portrayed by drag star Alaska in the second episode of the second season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars. In 2017, Mae West was the subject of an episode of the TV comedy series Over My Dead Body on Amazon Prime. West was the subject of the 2020 PBS documentary Mae West: Dirty Blonde as part of their American Masters series. The documentary was produced by Bette Midler. A May West is a Canadian dessert cake named after West. In the 1980s the spelling was changed from Mae West to May West. The snack is still very popular in Quebec, Eastern and Southern Ontario. A 52-meter-high (171 ft) sculpture in Munich carries the name Mae West. In the 1935 Laurel and Hardy film Bonnie Scotland, in response to the character, Mrs. Burns saying to Mr. Miggs: "the next time you drop down to Glasgow, you must come up and see me some time." Stan comments "It's Mae West."