I'm No Angel
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I'm No Angel poster
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| Directed by | Wesley Ruggles |
| Produced by | William LeBaron |
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Mae West Harlan Thompson Lowell Brentano (Suggestions) |
| Starring | Mae West Cary Grant Gregory Ratoff Edward Arnold Ralf Harolde |
| Music by | Herman Hand Howard Jackson Rudolph G. Kopp John Leipold Heinz Roemheld |
| Cinematography | Leo Tover |
| Edited by | Otho Lovering |
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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Release date
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October 6, 1933 |
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Running time
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87 min. |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $225,000 (estimated) |
| Box office | $2,850,000 (USA) |
I'm No Angel (1933) is Mae West's third motion picture. West received sole story and screenplay credit. A young Cary Grant plays her leading man for the second time, following She Done Him Wrong. Made pre-Code, this was one of the few Mae West movies that were not subjected to heavy censorship. The film was directed by Wesley Ruggles.
Tira (Mae West) shimmies and sings in the sideshow of Big Bill Barton's Wonder Show, while her current boyfriend, pickpocket "Slick" (Ralf Harolde), relieves her distracted audience of their valuables for Big Bill (Edward Arnold). One of the rich customers arranges a private rendezvous, during which Slick barges in and attempts to run a badger game on the customer. The customer threatens to call the cops, so Slick whacks him over the head with a bottle. Mistakenly thinking he has killed the man, Slick flees, but is caught and jailed.
Fearing that Slick will implicate her, Tira asks Big Bill for a loan to retain her lawyer, Bennie Pinkowitz (Gregory Ratoff). He agrees on condition that she does her lion taming act, which includes putting her head into the mouth of one of the beasts, promising her that it will get her (and him) to the "Big Show". It does. (West did some of her own stunts, including riding an elephant into the ring.)
Tira's fame takes her to New York City, where wealthy Kirk Lawrence (Kent Taylor) is smitten, despite being engaged to snobbish socialite Alicia Hatton (Gertrude Michael). He showers her with expensive gifts. Kirk's friend and even richer cousin, Jack Clayton (Cary Grant), goes to see Tira to ask her to leave Kirk and his fiancée alone. He ends up falling for her himself. Tira and Jack’s romance leads to a wedding engagement.
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