I love Mae West and wish that someone would present a full season of her films, not just I'm No Angel and She Done Him Wrong, great though they are. It has been said that she became tamer with the introduction of the Hays Code, but she found ways to work around that. Klondike Annie (1936) and Every Day's a Holiday (1937) are two of my favorites. An older friend of mine -- a famous classical pianist -- told me how much he enjoyed her performance on Broadway in Catherine Was Great (1944).HoldenIsHere wrote: ↑December 14th, 2022, 12:10 am I am a huge fan of Mae West. She is one performer who truly deserves to be called a legend. Beyond acting and singing, she was a playwright and a screenwriter. My favorite of her movies is I'M NO ANGEL, for which she received sole writing credit: "Story, Screenplay and All Dialogue." Her character's cross-examination of witnesses in that movie's courtroom scene is one of the greatest comic sequences captured on film.
Just look at this scene from the top of Klondike Annie -- it's pure sex. And when you realize her character is being kept by a Chinese man, the second line -- "And I feel the thrill of China when I see the yellow Buddha moon above" takes on special significance.