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VHS : I'm No AngelIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Mae West, Cary Grant, Gregory Ratoff, Edward Arnold, Ralf Harolde directed by: Wesley Ruggles  Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786302798432 Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC ISBN: 6302798434 Label: Universal Studios Manufacturer: Universal Studios Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Universal Studios Release Date: January 01, 1998 Running Time: 87 minutes Studio: Universal Studios Theatrical Release Date: October 06, 1933 Sales Rank: 528 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Amazon.com: In I'm No Angel, Mae West's second star vehicle, she's sideshow attraction Tira, "the girl who discovered you don't have to have feet to be a dancer." As usual, West wrote all her own dialogue for the film, and it's full of priceless wisecracks. A crowd of men ogles her as she tosses off a saucy little number, "They Call Me Sister Honky Tonk," swinging her hips phlegmatically. Then she slithers offstage, muttering "Suckers." Bored with life, Tira consults a fortuneteller. "I see a man in your future," he drones. "What, only one?" quips Mae. Tira wants to quit the carnival, so her boss (an unctuous Edward Arnold) makes her a proposition. If she'll become the show's lion tamer, she can meet "the swells." Just one little thing: she's got to put her head in the lion's mouth. (West insisted on performing this stunt herself, to the horror of Paramount Pictures' executives.) Enter Cary Grant as Jack Clayton, an aristocrat who falls for this floozie from the wrong side of the tracks. Some of the film's merriest scenes show Tira and her five black maids having a ball dancing and singing as she prepares for her dates with Jack. (West made it her business to keep as many of her black girlfriends working in movies as possible.) Tira's head maid, Beulah, played by Gertrude Michael, is the object of that momentous line "Oh, Beulah, peel me a grape." Mae slays 'em all in this picture, dressed, as always, in fabulously flamboyant finery. --Laura Mirsky Average Rating:
 Rating:  - "I'm Very Quick in a Slow Way"Perhaps her best film, "I'm No Angel" (1933) finds Mae West at full suggestive power before the Production Code reared its ugly head. Immortal one-liners abound in this fascinating social satire, with romantic support from a young Cary Grant and Mae's inimitable rendition of "They Call Me Sister Honky Tonk." A Depression-era classic directed with stylish flair by Wesley Ruggles. Rating: - the greatest Mae West movieThe legend of Mae West was well and truly sealed when she wrote and starred in 1933's I'M NO ANGEL. Most fans will single out this as her greatest movie, and I wholeheartedly agree. West plays Tira, a carnival dancer/lion tamer, who makes a very profitible sub-career out of charming older men and reaping the rewards of their large fortunes. That all changes when she meets Jack Clayton (Cary Grant), a millionaire who actually wants to marry her! I'M NO ANGEL introduced ... Read More Rating:  - I'm peeling her a grape--can anybody else write this review for me now ???Mae West and Cary Grant starred in I'm No Angel, an excellent comedy from the early 1930s that shines even though the Hayes production code watered it down a little. The plot moves along at a very good clip; and West, who wrote the screenplay, gets in plenty of innuendos, double entendres and wisecracks all along the way. The action begins at a local circus where Tira (Mae West) does her nightly song and dance number to the delight of many men. What most people don't know is that Tira ... Read More Rating:  - DisappointingI've read many wonderful things about this movie, and it certainly is an important one in the history of Mae West's career because it is a film adaptation of her scandalous theatrical show called Sex. However, I found it to be quite dull. Basically what we have here is a study about a woman who enjoys the company of men and who gets tired of them as quickly as she falls for them. One day, a special man rolls along (Cary Grant) and she wants to become a one man woman. This does not happen, ... Read More Rating: - I'm No AngelWitty. Great costumes. Mae West's mannerism's got old after a while. Something I will probably watch again. Family friendly and culturally educational. Browse for similar items by category:
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