Directed by:
A. Edward SutherlandScreenplay:
Mae WestCinematography:
Karl StrussComposer:
Leo ShukenCast:
Mae West, Edmund Lowe, Charles Butterworth, Charles Winninger, Lloyd Nolan, Louis Armstrong, Herman Bing, Roger Imhof, Chester Conklin, Adrian Morris (more)Plots(1)
In New York amid rousing New Year’s Eve celebrations to ring in 1900, police captain Jim McCarey tells con artist Peaches O’Day that she should leave town, because the chief of police wants her arrested. But with the help of a wealthy well-wisher, she’s soon back. Taking to the cabaret stage disguised as “Mademoiselle Fifi”, she catches the amorous eye of police chief John Quade. When she rebuffs his advances, he orders McCarey to shut down the show and, when McCarey defies the order, Quade takes his badge. Peaches manages to get hold of files compromising the corrupt chief and urges McCarey to run against him for the office of mayor … “He’s the kind of a man I want, I mean for mayor!” In her final film for Paramount Studios, Mae West played it remarkably chaste. Her innate sensuality, usually expressed in verbal innuendo, is here accentuated by the 17 extravagant gowns designed by fashion star Elsa Schiaparelli. The couturier, in turn, contributed to the fetishization of West’s body by designing the bottle for her perfume Shocking to resemble the film star’s figure. (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Mae West
USA
Best movies:
I'm No Angel (1933)
Myra Breckinridge (1970)
Sextette (1978)
Edmund Lowe
USA
Best movies:
Dinner at Eight (1933)
I Love You Again (1940)
The Last Hurrah (1958)
Charles Butterworth
USA
Best movies:
Second Chorus (1940)
Hollywood Party (1934)
Follow the Boys (1944)
Charles Winninger
USA
Best movies:
Destry Rides Again (1939)
Show Boat (1936)
Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
Lloyd Nolan
USA
Best movies:
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Airport (1970)
Peyton Place (1957)
Louis Armstrong
USA
Best movies:
Hello, Dolly! (1969)
The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
A Song Is Born (1948)
Herman Bing
German Empire
Best movies:
Sunrise (1927)
Dumbo (1941)
Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
Roger Imhof
USA
Best movies:
San Francisco (1936)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Man Hunt (1941)
Chester Conklin
USA
Best movies:
The Great Dictator (1940)
Modern Times (1936)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Adrian Morris
USA
Best movies:
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Union Pacific (1939)
Francis McDonald
USA
Best movies:
The Sea Hawk (1940)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages (1916)
Irving Bacon
USA
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Herbert Rawlinson
UK
Best movies:
It Started with Eve (1941)
Dark Victory (1939)
Bullets or Ballots (1936)
Weldon Heyburn
USA
Best movies:
North West Mounted Police (1940)
Samson and Delilah (1949)
They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
Walter Catlett
USA
Best movies:
It Started with Eve (1941)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Love Is News (1937)
Dick Elliott
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
John Indrisano
USA
Best movies:
Some Like It Hot (1959)
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Barefoot in the Park (1967)
William Austin
Guyana
Best movies:
The Gay Divorcee (1934)
It (1927)
National Velvet (1944)
Otto Fries
USA
Best movies:
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
Edgar Dearing
USA
Best movies:
Edison, the Man (1940)
After the Thin Man (1936)
Scarlet Street (1945)