The Films of Mae West



NIGHT AFTER NIGHT (1932)

Paramount

Director: Archie Mayo

Screenplay: Vincent Lawrence and Kathryn Scola

Cast: George Raft, Constance Cummings, Wynne Gibson, Alison Skipworth, Mae West, Roscoe Karns, Louis Calhern



SHE DONE HIM WRONG (1933)

Paramount

Director: Lowell Sherman

Screenplay: Harvey Thew and John Bright, based on play by Mae West

Cast: Mae West, Cary Grant, Owen Moore, Gilbert Roland, Noah Beery, Sr., Rafaela Ottiano, Rochelle Hudson, David Landau



I'M NO ANGEL (1933)

Paramount

Director: Wesley Ruggles

Screenplay: Mae West, based on her story.

Cast: Mae West, Cary Grant, Gregory Ratoff, Edward Arnold, Kent Taylor, Gertrude Michael, William B. Davidson, Libby Taylor, Dorothy Peterson



BELLE OF THE NINETIES (1934)

Paramount

Director: Leo McCarey

Screenplay: Mae West, based on her story

Cast: Mae West, Roger Pryor, John Mack Brown, John Miljan, Katherine DeMille, James Donlan, Libby Taylor, Gene Austin, Duke Ellington and his orchestra



GOIN' TO TOWN (1935)

Paramount

Director: Alexander Hall

Screenplay: Mae West, based on story by Marion Morgan and George B. Dowell

Cast: Mae West, Paul Cavanaugh, Gilbert Emery, Marjorie Gateson, Tito Coral, Ivan Lebedeff, Fred Kohler, Sr., Monroe Owsley, Luis Alberni



KLONDIKE ANNIE (1936)

Paramount

Director: Raoul Walsh

Screenplay: Mae West, based on play by Mae West and story by Marion Morgan and George B. Dowell

Cast: Mae West, Victor McLaglen, Phillip Reed, Helen Jerome Eddy, Harold Huber, Soo Yong, Lucille Webster Gleason



GO WEST, YOUNG MAN (1936)

Paramount

Director: Henry Hathaway

Screenplay: Mae West, based on play by Lawrence Riley

Cast: Mae West, Warren William, Randolph Scott, Alice Brady, Elizabeth Patterson, Lyle Talbot, Isabel Jewell, Margaret Perry, Etienne Girardot, Xavier Cugat and his orchestra



EVERY DAY'S A HOLIDAY (1938)

Paramount

Director: A. Edward Sutherland

Screenplay: Mae West

Cast: Mae West, Edmund Lowe, Charles Butterworth, Charles Winninger, Lloyd Nolan, Walter Catlett, Chester Conklin, Louis Armstrong



MY LITTLE CHICKADEE (1940)

Universal

Director: Edward Cline

Screenplay: Mae West and W.C. Fields

Cast: Mae West, W.C. Fields, Joseph Calleia, Dick Foran, Margaret Hamilton, Donald Meek, Anne Nagel, Ruth Donnelly.



THE HEAT'S ON (1943)

Columbia

Director: Gregory Ratoff

Screenplay: Fitzroy Davis, George S. George and Fred Schiller

Cast: Mae West, Victor Moore, William Gaxton, Hazel Scott, Lester Allen, Mary Roche, Almira Sessions, Xavier Cugat and his orchestra



MYRA BRECKINRIDGE (1970)

Twentieth Century-Fox

Director: Michael Sarne

Screenplay: Michael Sarne and David Giles, based on the novel by Gore Vidal

Cast: Mae West, John Huston, Raquel Welch, Rex Reed, Roger Herren, Farrah Fawcett, Calvin Lockhart, Andy Devine, John Carradine, George Furth



SEXTETTE (1978)

Briggs and Sullivan production; released by Crown International Pictures (domestic) and New World (foreign)

Director: Ken Hughes

Screenplay: Herbert Baker; based on Mae West's play and dialogue

Cast: Mae West, Timothy Dalton, Dom DeLuise, Tony Curtis, George Hamilton, Ringo Starr, Keith Moon, Alice Cooper, Rona Barrett, George Raft, Regis Philbin

Robert DeNiro's performance in this movie seems to go beyond performance: he sinks so deeply into the role of Jake LaMotta that you almost forget he's DeNiro. It's not a likable performance, and it's not an especially likable film (the fight sequences still make me wince), but it is perhaps the high point of his career.