(74 mins.) Released 1935-04-25
Director: Alexander Hall
Stars: Mae West, Paul Cavanagh, Gilbert Emery, Marjorie Gateson
comedy, musical
originally posted 26 Oct 2017 17:30
Previewing the cast list, I'm struck again by the fact that NONE of the names are familiar. Don Adams told a story on a Cavett show: when he was a young comic, and MW was older, doing a night club act, she forbade him from completing any of his jokes, so he wouldn't outshine her (he was opening for her.) Did she cast her films that way too?
Cowboy dance hall queen, prenup benefactress, winning racehorse owner, social climber, opera singer (Delilah, as in Samson and; she sings in French; Camille Saint-Saëns appears in the IMDb Soundtracks list). She wrote the screenplay, delivers her signature elegant bawdiness, and sings 3 non-opera songs.
Major Pictures Corp (distr. Paramount), dir. Hall; 6+
