She Done Him Wrong

She Done Him Wrong

Released: February 9 1933

• Director: Lowell Sherman
• Leading characters: Mae West - Lady Lou, Cary Grant - Captain Cummings, Owen Moore - Chick Clark, Noah Beery - Gus Jordan
•  Classic Comedy
• Not Rated
• #74  on list

Saucy cabaret singer Lady Lou keeps plenty of men entertained but finds protection from a criminal ex-lover in the arms of a young Salvation Army captain. *taken from Netflix

The National Legion of Decency was formed in October of 1933 from the Roman Catholic Church to say what was or wasn't appropriate for motion pictures, this film played a big role for forming this organization. The Legion was much more conservative with ratings than the Production Code (which I have to say is pretty harsh compared to now) with ratings being:

A: Morally unobjectionable

B: Morally objectionable in part
C: Condemned by the Legion of Decency
The A rating was subsequently divided:
A-I: Suitable for all audiences
A-II: Suitable for adults — then, with the introduction of A-III — suitable for adults and adolescents
A-III: Suitable for adults only
A-IV: For adults with reservations
In 1978, the B and C ratings were combined into a new O rating for "morally offensive" films. *taken from Wikipedia
In my opinion the movie really wasn't that racy or bad, but I guess back in the day with its hinting at sex it was very risque.

This movie was only shot in 3 weeks and is the shortest movie, at 66 minutes, to receive an Academy Award nominated for Best Picture. It's the only movie Mae West received an Academy Award Nomination.

The movie's line "Why don't you come up sometime and see me?" was voted as the #26 movie quote by the American Film Institute, I love how Mae says the line in the movie. She's really over the top but does it so well that it just seems normal. She was sewn into most of her costumes and I wish it was in color so I could see all the beautiful fabric.

This was my favorite dress she wore, it was very sparkly the sleeves fascinated me. One of the catch phrases of the movie was " Love was only a pastime but diamonds were a career" this dress says just that!

This was Cary Grants break through role and he played it marvelously, you just swooned every time he came on camera.

I give this 3 out of 5 stars