Cary Grant's 8th full length film, She Done Him Wrong, was released on this day in 1933.
Summary:
Lady Lou (Mae West) - a successful saloon singer with many men interested in her - is interested in many men. She is warned by her jealous boyfriend and prison inmate, Chick Clark (Owen Moore), is in not to double cross him or he'll find a way out and kill her. Despite the warning, Lou takes an interest in head of the Salvation Army-type Mission located next door, Captain Cummings (Cary Grant). On hearing the mission can't pay their rent, Lou buys the building so they - and the Captain - can stay. Clark breaks out of prison and heads straight to Lou's saloon....
Cast:
Mae West...Lady Lou
Cary Grant...Captain Cummings
Owen Moore...Chick Clark
Gilbert Roland...Serge Stanieff
Noah Beery...Gus Jordan (as Noah Beery Sr.)
David Landau...Dan Flynn
Rafaela Ottiano...Russian Rita
Dewey Robinson...Spider Kane
Rochelle Hudson...Sally
Tammany Young...Chuck Connors
Fuzzy Knight...Rag Time Kelly
Grace La Rue...Frances
Robert Homans...Doheney (as Robert E. Homans)
Louise Beavers...Pearl
Did You Know?
The National Legion of Decency was formed in October of 1933, six months after the release of this film. Legion officials cited Mae West and the film as one of the major reasons for the "necessity" of the organization.
"Diamond Lil", the play on which this was based, originally opened Apr. 9, 1928 at the Royale Theatre and ran for 176 performances. It was revived 3 times between 1949 and 1951, each time starring Mae West.
Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania removed the song "A Guy What Takes His Time". Will H. Hays and Adolph Zukor went to New York to edit the song to an entrance by Mae West, one opening verse, and one closing verse to lessen the suggestiveness. Despite this, Ohio and Pennsylvania cut all of West's one liners.
Taglines:
"YOU CAN BE HAD!" she told him! (Print Ad- The Dispatch, ((Lexington, NC)) 6 February 1933)
The Darling of Broadway Gives a Hot Time to the Nation. (Print Ad-Newark Sunday Call, ((Newark, NJ)) 2 April 1933)
Quotes:
Captain Cummings: Well, surely you don't mind my holding your hand?
Lady Lou: It ain't heavy - I can hold it myself.
Captain Cummings: I'm anxious not to see you mixed up in it. But I guess I'm taking your time.
Lady Lou: What do you suppose my time's for?
Lady Lou: Why don't you come up sometime, huh?
Captain Cummings: Well, I...
Lady Lou: Don't be afraid. I won't tell.
Captain Cummings: But, eh...
Lady Lou: Come up. I'll tell your fortune.
Lady Lou: Yes, I wasn't always rich.
Pearl: No?
Lady Lou: No, there was a time I didn't know where my next husband was coming from.
Frances: You know, ever since I sang that song it's been haunting me.
Rag Time Kelly: It SHOULD haunt you: You murdered it.
Posters:
Directed by Lowell Sherman.
Produced and Distributed by Paramount Publix.
Running time: 66 minutes.
Artwork by Rebekah Hawley of Studio 36.
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