Mae West - The Glamour Collection (Go West Young Man/ Goin' To Town/ I'm No Angel/ My Little Chickadee/ Night After Night)
by Alexander Hall, Archie Mayo, Edward F. Cline, Henry Hathaway, Wesley Ruggles
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Actor: Cary Grant, Edward Arnold, Gregory Ratoff, Mae West, Ralf HaroldeDirector: Alexander Hall, Archie Mayo, Edward F. Cline, Henry Hathaway, Wesley Ruggles
Brand: NBC Universal
Writer: George B. Dowell
Writer: Kathryn Scola
Writer: Lawrence Riley
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 417 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-04-04
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Universal Studios
Product features:
- Condition: New
- Format: DVD
- Box set; Color; Dolby; DVD; Full Screen; Subtitled; NTSC
DVD Reviews of Mae West - The Glamour Collection (Go West Young Man/ Goin' To Town/ I'm No Angel/ My Little Chickadee/ Night After Night)
DVD Review: "The Hour Glass Figure That Makes Every Second Count"
Summary: 5 Stars
The above is famous ad copy for one of Mae West's films and it still rings true, this curvy little philospher remains one of the greatest popular entertainers and wits of all time and this new DVD set features the vamp of the talkies in five of her classic films.
NIGHT AFTER NIGHT (1932) - Mae West's film debut after almost a decade as a major Broadway star. Mae's is actually a secondary role and she doesn't even show up in the film until it's half over. The movie is a rather conventional drama about ex-thug George Raft determined to woo and win society beauty Constance Cummings with a little help from culture coach Alison Skipworth. Mae eventually appears on the scene in the comic role as his old flame, easy-lovin' Maudie Triplet, who brings some earthy sensibility to the situation and helps Skipworth unleash HER inhibitions. Mae plays her part with a breezy energy that is quite different from the celebrated sashaying laid-back persona of her starring vehicles. She's completely delicious as the good-hearted floozy and her scenes are among the best work she ever did on the screen, clearly showing why the public demanded she star in films.
I'M NO ANGEL (1933) - Widely considered one of Mae's two greatest films (the other is SHE DONE HIM WRONG which is presumably being saved for volume two), this film is Mae at her very best, the saucy circus showgirl who loves 'em and leaves 'em but when she comes across Cary Grant decides to keep 'em (can you blame her?). Loaded with legendary one-liners - "It's not the men in my life, it's the life in my men" - "When I'm good I'm very good, when I'm bad I'm better" - who isn't familiar with the classic Mae Westisms even if they haven't seen the movie. This is the movie with Mae's famous lion-taming scenes and her classic courtroom saga. This is one film you will enjoy every time you view it. Naughty Tira (West) vamps everyone from sleazy traveling salesmen to judges and I dare say contemporary audiences will also be caught in her web. A true American movie classic.
GOIN' TO TOWN (1935) - Mae West, the ultimate big city gal is transferred to the west as a saloon queen named Cleo Borden who becomes a cattle queen after the death of her wealthy fiance. Not one to cry over spilt milk, Mae is soon on the make with the overseer of her late beau's estate, blue-blooded Englishman Paul Cavanaugh, who somehow is immune to the lady's voluptuous charms and is not interested in a personal relationship. "I'm here to take care of the cattle and the men (ranch employees)," he sniffs. "You worry about the cattle - I'll take care of the men!" is Cleo's response. Cleo's new holdings make her a major player in the world of horse racing where she comes into contact with the society crowd. Determined to become a "society dame" (all the better to impress the elusive Cavanaugh) she enters a marriage of convenience with a socially promenient but financially destitute Monroe Owsley and bankrolls him out of debt in exchange for the place in society for being his wife, not counting on problems from her rival at the racetrack, Marjorie Gateson, who happens to be Monroe's aunt. Rather than sponsoring an opera like Ms. Gateson, Cleo decides to star in one - a production of SAMSON AND DELILAH with Mae tackling opera quite creditably.
GO WEST YOUNG MAN (1936) - This enjoyable comedy has always been one of my favorite Mae West films. The movie was based on a naughty hit play called PERSONAL APPEARANCE that starred Gladys George as a blonde movie queen with multiple men who finds herself stranded among her fans in the middle of the country. Sounds like a terrific springboard for a Mae West picture but the movie was made after the censor boards clamped down and cut nearly all of the racy dialogue which may well have been Mae Westisms in the first place!! Yet the movie has a lot to offer fans of classic movies, especially for it's glimpse into how movie-mad the American public was in the 1930's. Mae is delightful and her seduction of Randolph Scott is one of her more potent cinema encounters. The film also gives lie to the legend of West being so jealous of other women she never let other actresses shine in her films - the picture is loaded with excellent character actresses who have many scenes with Ms. West and Elizabeth Patterson even has some wonderful lines in scenes with La Mae and a delicious barb at Mae's expense: "In my day, women with hair that color didn't go out in the daytime!" Mae West even shares many scenes with another blonde - delightfully dingy little Isabel Jewell who at one point even does an impression of Mae's Paramount rival Marlene Dietrich in a scene with Mae talking about how much she loves movies!
MY LITTLE CHICKADEE - This sweet little movie has an undeserved terrible reputation. I think it is due to the fact that the combo of Mae West and W. C. Fields is so perfect one expects the resulting film should be a rival to SOME LIKE IT HOT or THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN'S CREEK. Instead it's just a nice little average comedy movie but one fans of either star should cherish. The movie is particularly not popular with West fans used to their diva completely dominating the screen, covered with diamonds and pawed on by young handsome hunks like Cary Grant and Gilbert Roland. Here Mae has a leading man actually older than her! Yet her original script (she was peeved that Fields received co-writer credit when he simply inserted one of his comic routines for a scene) has some of her sharpest, most political barbs, addressing her critics by deliciously naming Margaret Hamilton's self-righteous women's group The Ladies Vigilante Committee or by becoming a substitute teacher (the prude's worst nightmare, Mae West influencing young America). Reading off the blackboard, "I am a good boy. I am a good girl", Mae snaps "What is this? Propeganda?" If the rest of the movie had this sort of bite, CHICKADEE would be ranked with the greatest social comedies ever made.
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Description of Mae West - The Glamour Collection (Go West Young Man/ Goin' To Town/ I'm No Angel/ My Little Chickadee/ Night After Night)
Smart, seductive and undeniably funny, Mae West is one of cinema?s most enduring comedy legends. Now this larger-than-life buxom beauty charms fans all over again in an amazing 5-movie collection of some of her most wildly popular films. Revel in Mae?s breakout performance in Night After Night; join her as a bewitching lion (and man) tamer in I?m No Angel; lasso up some fun with the wealthy and the wicked in the rags-to-riches tale of Goin? To Town; delight in a comic country romance in Go West Young Man; and see how wild the West can really get in My Little Chickadee. It?s a must-own salute to one of Hollywood?s most outrageous and hilarious leading ladies.Bestsellers in DVD
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