Derek Winnert

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Every Day’s a Holiday **** (1937, Mae West, Edmund Lowe, Charles Butterworth, Charles Winninger, Walter Catlett, Lloyd Nolan, Herman Bing, Chester Conklin, Louis Armstrong) – Classic Movie Review 7545

Director A Edward Sutherland’s 1937 comedy Every Day’s a Holiday offers an eagerly grabbed double role for Mae West as confidence trickster Peaches O’Dea, who sells New York’s Brooklyn Bridge to Fritz Krausmeyer (Herman Bing) […]

Sep, 05

Myra Breckinridge *** (1970, Mae West, John Huston, Raquel Welch) – Classic Movie Review 2867

Michael Sarne’s 1970 film of Gore Vidal’s witty comic novel about Hollywood seems nowhere near as bad as its reputation suggests. Raquel Welch gamely plays the sex-change movie critic heroine Myra Breckinridge, who sets out […]

Aug, 30

She Done Him Wrong **** (1933, Mae West, Cary Grant) – Classic Movie Review 1273

Director Lowell Sherman’s provocative 1933 Pre-Production Code comedy stars Mae West in her second film, who done Cary Grant right by putting the handsome young actor in the spotlight and famously asking him ‘come up […]

Jun, 01

I’m No Angel **** (1933, Mae West, Cary Grant) – Classic Movie Review 1272

Director Wesley Ruggles’s immortal 1933 comedy stars the monumental Mae West at her peak in her third motion picture, playing Tira, a carnival performer romancing Jack Clayton (Cary Grant) as she sings five tunes, trains a […]

Jun, 01

My Little Chickadee **** (1940, Mae West, W C Fields, Joseph Calleia) – Classic Movie Review 1266

Director Edward F Cline’s attractive and appealing 1940 comedy My Little Chickadee provides the one and only screen teaming of all-time great comedy favourites Mae West and W C Fields and it is treasurable just […]

May, 31

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