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Film Forum’s 66 film – month long salute to ‘Hollywood’s Naughtiest, Bawdiest Year’ – 1933!!! continues…
Day 22’s one that we came up and saw some time – I’m No Angel
Wesley Ruggles may have directed I’m No Angel, but make no mistake, this is the Mae West show from top to bottom – she came up with the film’s story AND wrote the screenplay. In the film, Mae plays a fearless lion tammer by day, and no angel by night, having men fall into her lap/trap, and knocking ‘em (and us) down with her signature lines (’When I’m good I’m very good. But when I’m bad I’m better’). This was the second and final pairing of West and a young Cary Grant, who plays the beau to her arrow. It’s all hilarious, and all very saucy, and how would any object to Ms West cross-examining anyone in a court of law???
(tonight was actually a double feature, along with the Czech Hedy Lamarr film Ecstasy, but it was more silent than talkie, and our mind and ears weren’t prepared for that, and so we decided to skip it 🙂