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Format: VHS
Aug 1993
Not Rated
Recording Mode: (unknown)
73 min. |
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Movie Description
Mae West, who wrote this and a handful of other movies during the 1930s, stars as 1890s blues singer Ruby in a comic romp that follows the dazzling entertainer's quest to find the man of her dreams without being duped. Ruby distracts boxer Tiger so much that Tiger's manager asks Ruby to leave town, but it's not the last that Ruby and Tiger will see of each other. Singing such songs as "My Old Flame" and "Memphis Blues" with a sultry air in front of Duke Ellington's orchestra, Ruby projects sex and sincerity at the same moment. Using both her brains and her looks to keep herself out of the grasp of troublemakers, Ruby outwits her female competition and the male predators to emerge unscathed and with her beau on her arm. The script was ruthlessly pared by the censorship board, but Mae West slips enough double entrendres through to make this show, directed by the great Leo McCarey, a delight.
Synopsis
Comedy and melodrama mix in this tongue-in-cheek flashback to the Gay Nineties. Mae West wrote the script and stars as the voluptuous and sexy singer surrounded by murderers, arsonists, gamblers, and other assorted bad guys, and she looks like she's having the time of her life.
Film Notes
Originally titled IT AIN'T NO SIN, the Mae West-written movie provoked calls from the censorship board to change the name and for a less explicit script.
Quotations
"It's better to be looked over than overlooked."--Ruby Carter (Mae West)
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