Description
I'm no Angel DVD 1933 / Directed by Wesley Ruggles / Starring: Mae West, Cary Grant, Gregory Ratoff, Edward Arnold, Ralf Harolde
UPC 5050582345506
REGION 2 PAL DVD
MADE IN THE UK
AUDIO: English mono
Total Runtime: 84 minutes
English Summary:
I'm No Angel is a 1933 pre-code film directed by Wesley Ruggles, and starring Mae West and Cary Grant. West received sole story and screenplay credit. It is one of her films that was not subjected to heavy censorship.
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, Ernest Brown, 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
Cast
- Mae West as Tira
- Cary Grant as Jack Clayton
- Gregory Ratoff as Benny Pinkowitz
- Edward Arnold as "Big Bill" Barton
- Ralf Harolde as "Slick" Wiley
- Kent Taylor as Kirk Lawrence
- Gertrude Michael as Alicia Hatton
- Russell Hopton as "Flea" Madigan
- Dorothy Peterson as Thelma
- William B. Davidson as Ernest Brown (as Wm. B. Davidson)
- Gertrude Howard as Beulah Thorndyke, Tira's main maid
- Libby Taylor as Libby, Tira's hairdressing maid
- Hattie McDaniel as Tira's manicurist (uncredited)
Directed by | Wesley Ruggles |
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Produced by | William LeBaron |
Written by | Mae West Harlan Thompson Lowell Brentano (Suggestions)[1] |
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 |
Production
company |
Paramount Pictures
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Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date
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October 6, 1933 |
Running time
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84 min. |
Country | USA |
Language | English |