"stage and screen work, West made it a point to act with black American actors and actresses, helping to break racial discrimination in entertainment. West's stage shows resulted in her arrest for saucy material and her having black actors on stage was extremely controversial. With this film, she and her Paramount bosses called the shots: black stars appeared in a few of her films after this one. She Done Him Wrong She Done Him Wrong is a 1933 pre-Code American crime/comedy film starring Mae West and Cary Grant. The plot includes melodramatic and musical elements, with a supporting cast featuring"
"Done Him Wrong"", when Mae West was one of the nation's biggest box office attractions and its most controversial star. In the early 1930s, West's films were an important factor in saving Paramount Pictures from bankruptcy. Depression era audiences responded to the fantasy rise of a woman from the wrong side of the tracks. It was the most popular movie in the US in 1933. Cary Grant starred opposite her for the second and final time; their first film together had been ""She Done Him Wrong"". Grant remained annoyed for decades that West often took credit for his career despite"
"the fact that he had made major films before. The smash hit ""Blonde Venus"", starring Marlene Dietrich and Cary Grant, predates ""She Done Him Wrong"" by a year even though Mae West always claimed to have discovered Grant for her film, amusingly elaborating that up until then he had only made ""some tests with starlets."" She would frequently claim to various reporters through the years that she spotted him as an unknown walking across a parking lot, asked who he was (nobody knew according to her story) and stated that, ""If he can talk, I'll use him in my next"
"version of the script made it into production. Producer LeBaron, who had left RKO to work for Paramount, hired Hecht to work on ""She Done Him Wrong"" back when it was still a separate entity from ""Ruby Red"". Hecht was also hired for dance routines on ""Ruby Red"". Ultimately, all of Hecht's material was merged into a single film and used on ""She Done Him Wrong"". The film was directed by Lowell Sherman and starred West, Cary Grant, Owen Moore and Noah Beery. Hecht was interviewed by Motion Picture Magazine in 1933, in response to Mae West's media comments regarding"
"Him Wrong"" which was ""Why don't you come up some time and see me? I'm home every evening."" This was already misquoted and parodied as ""Why don't you come up and see me sometime."" In this film, when Flower Belle and Twillie say good-bye, West and Fields spoof each other's signature lines. Fields says, ""Come up and see me sometime"", to which West replies: ""Mmm, I will, my little chickadee."" Frank S. Nugent reviewed the film negatively for ""The New York Times"", writing that ""the film is at low tide most of the time in the quality of its humor,"
"and Tony Curtis, and more contemporary pop stars such as The Beatles' Ringo Starr and Alice Cooper, and television favorites such as Dom DeLuise and gossip queen Rona Barrett. It also included cameos of some of her famed musclemen from her 1950s Las Vegas show, such as the still remarkably fit Reg Lewis. ""Sextette"" also reunited Mae West with Edith Head, her costume designer from 1933 in ""She Done Him Wrong"". The film was a last hurrah and a Valentine from Mae West to her fans. In August 1980, West tripped while getting out of bed. After the fall, West"
"two of his films. However, his popularity gradually declined while his brother Wallace became the highest-paid actor in the world, winning an Oscar and arranging a contract with MGM in which he would be paid $1 more than any other actor on their roster. Noah Beery Sr. played the flamboyant supporting role of Mae West's bar-owning lover until she leaves him for Cary Grant in ""She Done Him Wrong"" (1933), while his brother Wallace performed in an extremely similar part, as the top-billed lead, later the same year in ""The Bowery"". At the height of his career, Noah Beery began"
"""Play it again, Sam."" The actual expression is ""Play it, Sam."" Mae West did not say ""Why don't you come up sometime and see me?"" in ""She Done Him Wrong"", but rather ""Why don't you come up and see me sometime?"" Quotation A quotation is the repetition of one expression as part of another one, particularly when the quoted expression is well-known or explicitly attributed by citation to its original source, and it is indicated by (punctuated with) quotation marks. A quotation can also refer to the repeated use of units of any other form of expression, especially parts of"
"Mae West Mary Jane ""Mae"" West (August 17, 1893 – November 22, 1980) was an American actress, singer, playwright, screenwriter, comedian, and sex symbol whose entertainment career spanned seven decades, known for her lighthearted bawdy double entendres and breezy sexual independence. West was active in vaudeville and on the stage in New York City before moving to Hollywood to become a comedian, actress and writer in the motion picture industry, as well as appearing on radio and television. The American Film Institute named her 15th among the greatest female stars of classic American cinema. Often using a husky contralto voice,"
"was: ""What's wrong?"" The stage driver turns to her and says: ""Nothing Miss Davis, we always stop here."" Then she replies to the stagecoach driver: ""Oh, I thought it might be a holdup. I always wanted to meet a western bandit."" Actress Mae West could not have done it any better. That stunning look as well as her dancing experience bought her un-credited roles in an additional eight movies. Her first un-credited role was in 1932's ""A Kid From Spain"". Her second un-credited role was in what was likely the most famous motion picture in which she ever appeared; she"
"reel. Mae West had already established herself as a comedic performer when her 1926 Broadway show ""Sex"" made national headlines. Tried and convicted of indecency by the New York City District Attorney, she served eight days in prison. West carefully constructed a stage persona and carried it over into her interviews and personal appearances. Despite her voluptuous physique, most of her appeal lay in her suggestive manner. She became a wordsmith in the art of the come-on and the seductive line, and despite her obvious appeal to male audiences, was popular with women as well. Over the cries of the"
"performed in blackface. Mae West inserted her ballad in her successful Broadway play ""Diamond Lil."" West sang the ballad again in her 1933 Paramount film ""She Done Him Wrong"", which takes its title from the refrain, substituting genders. She also sang it many years later (1978) on the CBS television special ""Back Lot U.S.A."" The song was used in the 1932 film ""Red-Headed Woman"", in a scene where actress Jean Harlow's character is drinking and lamenting having been jilted by her married lover. It is also sung by a river boat crew in ""Bed of Roses"", a film released the"
"for old times' sake."" When he feigns ignorance, she persists, ""Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By'."" Later that night, alone with Sam, Rick demands, ""You played it for her—you can play it for me."" Sam once again resists, prompting Blaine to shout: ""If she can stand it, I can! Play it!"" Humphrey Bogart Humphrey DeForest Bogart (; December 25, 1899January 14, 1957) was an American film and stage actor. His performances in numerous films from the Classical Hollywood era made him a cultural icon. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him as the greatest male star of"
"and helped secure her entry into film history. At first she did not like her small role in ""Night After Night"", but was appeased when she was allowed to rewrite her scenes. In West's first scene, a hat-check girl exclaims, ""Goodness, what beautiful diamonds"", and West replies, ""Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie."" Reflecting on the overall result of her rewritten scenes, Raft is said to have remarked, ""She stole everything but the cameras."" She brought her ""Diamond Lil"" character, now renamed ""Lady Lou"", to the screen in ""She Done Him Wrong"" (1933). The film is also notable"
"interruption, worthless. It turns out to embody something appalling and widespread in the culture."" The volume has been archived in the National Library of Australia. When the Lights Go Down (book) When The Lights Go Down, Complete Reviews 1975-1980, is the sixth collection of movie reviews by the critic Pauline Kael. All material in the book originally appeared in ""The New Yorker"". The collection begins with an appreciation of Cary Grant. "" Mae West's raucous invitation to him - 'Why don't you come up sometime and see me?' - was echoed thirty years later by Audrey Hepburn in ""Charade"": 'Won't"
"Mae West. West would later claim that she had discovered Cary Grant. Pauline Kael noted that Grant did not appear confident in his role as a Salvation Army director in ""She Done Him Wrong"", which made it all the more charming. The film was a box office hit, earning more than $2 million in the United States, and has since won much acclaim. For ""I'm No Angel"", Grant's salary was increased from $450 to $750 a week. The film was even more successful than ""She Done Him Wrong"", and saved Paramount from bankruptcy; Vermilye cites it as one of the"
"teens and early 1920s, Moore was a popular star at Selznick Pictures along with Olive Thomas, Elaine Hammerstein, Eugene O'Brien and Conway Tearle. He also appeared in films for his own production company as well as Goldwyn and Triangle. Moore married a second time to another silent film actress, Katherine Perry, in 1921. With the advent of sound film, Moore's career declined and he became basically a supporting actor for newer stars. He competed, as the third lead, with Cary Grant and Noah Beery, Sr. for the attentions of Mae West in ""She Done Him Wrong"", Paramount's most lucrative film"
"New Yorker"". ""We mustn't, of course, ever allow anything to curb Mae West, so it is with relief that we find her in this film no more shy than before."" Go West, Young Man Go West, Young Man is a 1936 American comedy film directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Mae West, Warren William, and Randolph Scott. Released by Paramount Pictures and based on the play ""Personal Appearance"" by Lawrence Riley, the film is about a movie star who gets stranded out in the country and trifles with a young man's affections. The phrase ""Go West, Young Man"" is often"
"The next major casting was Mae West, accepting her first film role since 1943. (She claimed to have turned down ""Pal Joey"" and ""The Art of Love"".) West was introduced to producer Robert Fryer via George Cukor. ""It's a return, not a comeback,"" said West. ""I've never been away, just busy."" The producers allowed her to rewrite her dialogue and sing some songs. She was paid $350,000. She was also responsible for getting a then-unknown Tom Selleck cast as one of her studs in the film. Farrah Fawcett was also an unknown when she was cast in this movie. Filming"
"successful transition to ""talking films"", mainly because of his abilities as a stuntman. In 1930, he appeared alongside William Haines and Leila Hyams in ""Way Out West"", which continued him on the path of western film roles, mostly in Poverty Row films but he also made small or uncredited appearances in major films. During the 1930s he appeared in 66 films—some in which he both acted and did stunt work—almost all being westerns, and appeared with such notable actors and actresses as Harry Carey, Hoot Gibson, Gloria Stuart, Joel McCrea, Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, and Humphrey Bogart. In 1939"
"""Ned Wayburn's Gambols"". He was billed under his nickname, Fuzzy (given him because of his peculiarly soft voice). While touring with bands, Knight came to Hollywood and appeared in several musical short films for MGM and Paramount between 1928 and 1932. Mae West gave him his first notable film role in ""She Done Him Wrong"", and he went on to play in hundreds of films over the next 30 years. By the 1940s, he was primarily playing in Western movies and was voted one of the Top Ten Money-Making Stars in Westerns in 1940. Knight became famous to a new"
"""West is the most wonderful machine for living I have ever known – unfortunately on the screen only."" To F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mae West was especially unique: ""The only Hollywood actress with both an ironic edge and a comic spark."" As ""Variety"" put it, ""Mae West's films have made her the biggest conversation-provoker, free-space grabber, and all-around box-office bet in the country. She's as hot an issue as Hitler."" By 1933, West was one of the largest box office draws in the United States and, by 1935, West was also the highest paid woman and the second-highest paid person in"
"Bank Dick"" (1940) and ""Never Give a Sucker an Even Break"" (1941). At the end of the film, as West sashays up the stairs, ""The End"" is playfully overlaid on her posterior. """"My little chickadee"""" is the catchphrase most associated with W. C. Fields, who first used it in a scene in 1932's ""If I Had a Million"" (to address co-star Alison Skipworth), whereas """"Come up and see me sometime"""" is a line West's character uses in her third film, 1933's ""I'm No Angel"" (which itself is a reflection of the popular line from her second film, 1933's ""She Done"
"filming, a tribute to her self-confidence, remarkable endurance, and stature as a self-created star 67 years after her Broadway debut in 1911 at the age of 18. ""Time"" wrote an article on the indomitable star entitled ""At 84, Mae West Is Still Mae West"". Upon its release, ""Sextette"" was not a critical or commercial success, but remains notable for the diverse cast, and because none of West's contemporaries such as Dietrich, Garbo, etc., were still making films. The cast included some of West's first co-stars such as George Raft (""Night After Night"", 1932), silver screen stars such as Walter Pidgeon"
"on feature-film direction, working with many of the biggest stars of the era, including Gloria Swanson (""Indiscreet"", 1931), Eddie Cantor (""The Kid From Spain"", 1932), the Marx Brothers (""Duck Soup"", 1933), W.C. Fields (""Six of a Kind"", 1934), and Mae West (""Belle of the Nineties"", 1934). A series of six films at Paramount came to a crashing halt with his production of ""Make Way for Tomorrow"" in 1937. While the story of an elderly couple who have to be separated for economic and family reasons during the Depression was not without humor in its treatment, the results were too unpopular"
"(Mae West), is a movie star who gets romantically involved with a politician. She makes plans to meet him at her next tour stop but her Rolls Royce breaks down and she is left stranded in the middle of a rural town. Her manager arranges for her to stay at a local boarding house. She immediately set her eyes on the young mechanic, fixing her car, Bud Norton, played by Randolph Scott. West sings the Arthur Johnston/John Burke song, ""I Was Saying to the Moon"" as she is trying to seduce Scott. ""The New York Times"" wrote that the film"
"get his sister a spot. She performed on radio as ""Hi-Hat Hattie"", a bossy maid who often ""forgets her place"". Her show became popular, but her salary was so low that she had to continue working as a maid. She made her first film appearance in ""The Golden West"" (1932), in which she played a maid. Her second appearance came in the highly successful Mae West film ""I'm No Angel"" (1933), in which she played one of the black maids with whom West camped it up backstage. She received several other uncredited film roles in the early 1930s, often singing"
"starred in ""Way Out West"" in 1930. The 1930 Quigley Poll, a survey of film exhibitors, listed Haines as the top box-office attraction in the country. In 1933, Haines was arrested in a YMCA with a sailor he had picked up in Los Angeles' Pershing Square. Louis B. Mayer, the studio head at MGM, delivered an ultimatum to Haines: Choose between a sham marriage (also known as a ""lavender marriage"") or his relationship with Shields. Haines chose Shields and they remained together for 47 years. Mayer subsequently fired Haines and terminated his contract. He made a few minor films at"
"Lowell Sherman Lowell J. Sherman (October 11, 1888 – December 28, 1934) was an American actor and film director. In an unusual practice for the time, he served as both actor and director on several films in the early 1930s. He later turned exclusively to directing. Having scored huge successes directing the films ""She Done Him Wrong"" (starring Mae West) and ""Morning Glory"" (which won Katharine Hepburn her first Academy Award), he was at the height of his career when he died after a brief illness. Born in San Francisco in 1888 to John Sherman and Julia Louise Gray(1870-1956), who"
"declared the play banned from the screen and repeatedly demanded changes to remove associations with or elements from the play, including suggested titles with the word ""diamond"". The adaption was finally allowed under the condition that the play not be referred to in publicity or advertising. ""Blonde Venus"" (with Marlene Dietrich) and ""Madame Butterfly"" (with Sylvia Sidney), both predate ""She Done Him Wrong"" but West always claimed to have discovered Grant for her film, claiming that until then Grant had only made ""some tests with starlets"". The script was adapted by Harvey F. Thew and John Bright. Original music was"
"on Monday November 14 at the Columbia Theater in California. In late November 1932 Hecht became involved in a series of Mae West projects, which all eventually culminated into a single picture. Earlier that year Paramount had signed Mae West to a contract and the actress was eager to step up from the lower-billed role she received in her first picture, ""Night After Night"". She was billed fourth, after George Raft, Constance Cummings and Wynne Gibson. West was working to adapt her notoriously banned play, ""Diamond Lil"", into a film, initially titled ""Honky Tonk"". But the censors objected and Paramount"
"was released the same year and also co-starred Grant. ""She Done Him Wrong"" bears some resemblances to ""The Bowery"", a Raoul Walsh film released later the same year by United Artists starring Noah Beery's brother Wallace. The two films each include a saloon owner called Chuck Conners, as a main character (played by Wallace Beery) in ""The Bowery"", and a smaller role (played by Tammany Young) in ""She Done Him Wrong"". Louise Beavers was the only African American actress to be brought aboard the film by West personally. She wanted a black woman to appear opposite her; when she did"
"argued in German. He played a suave playboy type in a number of films: ""Merrily We Go to Hell"" opposite Frederic March and Sylvia Sidney, ""Devil and the Deep"" alongside Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton and Tallulah Bankhead, ""Hot Saturday"" opposite Nancy Carroll and Randolph Scott, and ""Madame Butterfly"" with Sidney. According to biographer Marc Eliot, while these films did not make Grant a star, they did well enough to establish him as one of Hollywood's ""new crop of fast-rising actors"". In 1933, Grant gained attention for appearing in the pre-Code films ""She Done Him Wrong"" and ""I'm No Angel"" opposite"