Mae West 6 Disc Box Set ( She Done Him Wrong / I'm No Angel / Belle of the Nineties / My Little Chickadee / Klondike Annie / The Heat's On )

Mae West 6 Disc Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: She Done Him Wrong / I'm No Angel / Belle of the Nineties / My Little Chickadee / Klondike Annie / The Heat's On
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Oscar Academy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
446 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1933 - 1949 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Lowell Sherman
Wesley Ruggles
Leo McCarey
Edward F. Cline
Raoul Walsh
Gregory Ratoff

Written By:
Mae West
Harvey F. Thew
W.C. Fields
Marion Morgan
Fitzroy Davis
George S. George

Actors:
Mae West ..... Lady Lou
Cary Grant ..... Capt. Cummings
Owen Moore ..... Chick Clark
Gilbert Roland ..... Serge Stanieff
Noah Beery ..... Gus Jordan
David Landau ..... Dan Flynn
Rafaela Ottiano ..... Russian Rita
Dewey Robinson ..... Spider Kane
Rochelle Hudson ..... Sally
Tammany Young ..... Chuck Connors
Fuzzy Knight ..... Ragtime Kelly
Grace La Rue ..... Frances Kelly
Robert Homans ..... Doheney
Louise Beavers ..... Pearl (Lou's maid)
Mae West ..... Tira
Cary Grant ..... Jack Clayton
Gregory Ratoff ..... Benny Pinkowitz
Edward Arnold ..... Big Bill Barton
Ralf Harolde ..... Slick Wiley
Kent Taylor ..... Kirk Lawrence
Gertrude Michael ..... Alicia Hatton
Russell Hopton ..... 'Flea' Madigan
Dorothy Peterson ..... Thelma
William B. Davidson ..... Ernest Brown (as Wm. B. Davidson)
Gertrude Howard ..... Beulah Thorndyke
Libby Taylor ..... Libby (Tira's hairdressing maid)
Mae West ..... Ruby Carter
Roger Pryor ..... Tiger Kid
Johnny Mack Brown ..... Brooks Claybourne (as John Mack Brown)
Katherine DeMille ..... Molly Brant
John Miljan ..... Ace Lamont (owner, Sensation House)
James Donlan ..... Kirby (Tiger Kid's manager)
Stuart Holmes ..... Dirk
Harry Woods ..... Slade
Edward Gargan ..... Stogie (Ruby's agent)
Libby Taylor ..... Jasmine (Ruby's maid)
Frederick Burton ..... Col. Claybourne
Augusta Anderson ..... Mrs. Claybourne
Benny Baker ..... Blackie
Morrie Cohan ..... Butch
Warren Hymer ..... St. Louis fighter
Mae West ..... Flower Belle Lee
W.C. Fields ..... Cuthbert J. Twillie
Joseph Calleia ..... Jeff Badger
Dick Foran ..... Wayne Carter
Ruth Donnelly ..... Aunt Lou
Margaret Hamilton ..... Mrs. Gideon
Donald Meek ..... Amos Budge
Fuzzy Knight ..... Cousin Zeb
Willard Robertson ..... Uncle John
George Moran ..... Milton, Twillie's Indian confederate
Jackie Searl ..... Schoolboy (as Jack Searl)
Fay Adler ..... Mrs. 'Pygmy' Allen
Gene Austin ..... Saloon musician
Russell Hall ..... Candy
Otto Heimel ..... Coco
Mae West ..... The Frisco Doll / Rose Carlton / Sister Annie Alden
Victor McLaglen ..... Bull Brackett
Phillip Reed ..... Insp. Jack Forrest
Helen Jerome Eddy ..... Sister Annie Alden
Harry Beresford ..... Brother Bowser
Harold Huber ..... Chan Lo
Lucile Gleason ..... Big Tess (as Lucille Webster Gleason)
Conway Tearle ..... Vance Palmer
Esther Howard ..... Fanny Radler
Soo Yong ..... Fah Wong, Rose's Maid
John Rogers ..... Buddie
Ted Oliver ..... Grigsby
Lawrence Grant ..... Sir Gilbert
Gene Austin ..... Organist
Vladimar Bykoff ..... Marinoff
Mae West ..... Fay Lawrence
Victor Moore ..... Hubert Bainbridge
William Gaxton ..... Tony Ferris
Lester Allen ..... Mouse Beller
Alan Dinehart ..... Forrest Stanton
Mary Roche ..... Janey Adair
Lloyd Bridges ..... Andy Walker
Almira Sessions ..... Hannah Bainbridge
Sam Ash ..... Frank
David Lichine ..... Himself - Specialty Dancer
Leonard Sues ..... Trumpet Player
Jack Owen ..... Himself (as Jack Owens)
Joan Thorsen ..... Singer
Hazel Scott ..... Herself
Xavier Cugat Orchestra ..... Themselves (as Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra)

Synopsis:

'She Done Him Wrong

Lady Lou works as a singer at the Gay Nineties saloon of Gus Jordan, who plys her with diamonds to keep her by his side. She runs afoul of stalwart Salvation Army captain Cummings, who warns her that she's on the road to perdition. Though Lou herself steers clear of criminal activities, Gus Jordan runs a counterfeiting and white slavery ring. Also, Lou''s ex-lover Chick Clark has been sent to jail for stealing diamonds for her. Things come to a boil when Chick breaks prison and goes gunning for Lou.

I'm No Angel

Mae West's second starring vehicle, I'm No Angel casts the divine Miss West as the star performer in a seedy circus. Though she lives with Ralf Harolde, West allows herself plenty of time for other men. When Harolde runs afoul of the law, West secures extra money by becoming a lion tamer. While thus employed, West is ''discovered'' by playboy Kent Taylor; she willingly accepts his gifts and other favors, but she only has eyes for Taylor's cousin Cary Grant. Still, love takes second place to commerce in West's life, and she ends up suing Grant for breach of promise. When Grant allows her to win the case, she realizes she's truly in love with him after all. By rights, I'm No Angel should have been as big and bawdy a success as West's earlier She Done Him Wrong, but by late 1933 the censors were beginning to have their way with Hollywood. Several of the more ribald (and more hilarious) elements of the film were toned down--not least of which was the title, which was supposed to have been It Ain't No Sin.

Belle of the Nineties

Cabaret entertainer Ruby Carter shifts her operations from St. Louis to New Orleans, mostly to get away from prizefighter Tiger Kid. Ruby quickly becomes the toast of the town, but is marked as personal property by events promoter Ace, arousing the fury of Ace''s former flame, Molly Brant, as well as Tiger Kid, who comes to town for a title match.

My Little Chickadee

In a small Western town, a wealthy woman cannot decide between her three suitors.

Klondike Annie

Mae West butts heads with Victor McLaglen in Raoul Walsh's Klondike Annie, but the real victor was the Legion of Decency, whose censorship strictures transformed a saucy and spicy gumbo into something closer to chicken noodle soup. West plays Rose Carlton, the kept woman of Chan Lo (Harold Huber), who takes her from walking the streets to pacing the floors of her high rent apartment. Rose ends up killing Chan and beats it from San Francisco to the frozen north. She boards a ship where burly sea captain Bull Brackett (McLaglen) takes a shine to her; when he finds out she killed Chan, he blackmails her into coming up and seeing him sometime. Boarding the ship in Seattle is missionary Annie Alden (Helen Jerome Eddy), who dies on the way to Alaska. Rose assumes Annie's identity and, upon arrival in Alaska proceeds to preach the Good Book, saving sinners by unorthodox methods. Mountie Jack Forrest (Philip Reed) arrives in town searching for Chan's murderer and he falls in love with Rose, unaware that the woman he loves is the killer he seeks.

The Heat's On

After an absence of three years, Mae West returned to the screen in the musical comedy The Heat's On. La West is cast as Fay Lawrence, a famous Broadway actress who is loved intensely by her producer Tony Ferris (William Gaxton). Rival producer Forrest Stanton (Alan Dinehart) steals Fay away from Ferris by convincing her that she's been blacklisted from Broadway by blue-nosed moralist Hannah Bainbridge (Almira Sessions). Meanwhile, Hannah's puckish brother Hubert (Victor Moore) syphons money from his sister's ''clean up show business'' committee to produce a musical show for his actress niece Janey (Mary Roche). Somehow, all these characters converge for a spectacular closing production number spotlighting the formidable Fay. Part of the reason for the failure of The Heat's On is the fact that Mae West didn't write her own dialogue, as was usually her custom. The film performed so poorly that it would be 27 years before West would again appear on the Big Screen.'

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 13 May, 2008.