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This Week in History: 1933
Mae West provided an
escape for those 'suffering through The Great Depression
and sabre-rattling:
of Adolf Hitler in Germany .
Mae West, who wrote and starred in I'm No Angel, reeled off some of her most famous lines in the 1933 movie. |
November 1933 was
not a cheerful time. The Great Depression had been raging
for three long years and the old world order seemed to be coming
apart at the seams.
In Europe , new German chancellor Adolf Hitler was sabre-rattling.
In B.C., the Liberals and CCF were fighting an election over whether to reform
or replace capitalism.
People needed an
escape and Mae West was ready to provide it.
The platinum blond
bombshell was only five feet tall, but she had a lot of oomph. And the most
oomph of her storied career came in the movie I'm No Angel, which opened at the
Capitol Theatre on Nov. 3, 1933.
"Just a
sensitive girl who climbed the ladder of success, wrong by wrong!"
trumpeted one of several ads for the movie. "Torso-slinging in tights,
tiaras and ... tea-gowns"
I'm No Angel was
West's tour-de-force, a delightfully ridiculous yarn about a circus gal and her
misadventures in love.
Nest wrote the
screenplay and starred as Tira, a lion tamer and dancer for Big Bill Barton's Wonder
Show. Tira was sexy and could stick her head in a lion's mouth, qualities which
simply slay wealthy New Yorker Kirk Lawrence (Kent Taylor), who breaks off his
engagement to a blueblood to party with Mae.
His friend Jack
Clayton (Cary Grant) tries to get Mae to dump Kirk, and winds up falling in Iove
with her himself. Hijinks ensue, which allow West to reel off some of her most
famous lines, including "Come up and see me sometime," "Sure I'm
good, but when I'm bad, I'm better, and "Beulah, peel me a grape!"
West was 39 years
old when I'm No Angel appeared. She didn't break into the movies until 1932
after enjoying a solid stage career in New
York .
Her most famous (and infamous) stage show was called Sex and landed her a 10-day jail sentence in 1927 for obscenity. When she got out, she was a star.
Her most famous (and infamous) stage show was called Sex and landed her a 10-day jail sentence in 1927 for obscenity. When she got out, she was a star.
I'm No Angel was a
huge hit, and West became one of Hollywood 's
biggest stars in the 1930s. But her double entendres didn't always go down too
well with censors, who apparently forced her to rewrite many lines.
The censors
probably would have approved of Edna Archer, though. Edna was the cartoon star
of a series of bizarre B.C. Telephone ads that ran at the same time I'm No Angel
was playing.
One ad features a
bug-eyed Edna holding a bug-eyed kid, which is actually a telephone.
"I used to be
lonely — but now I have a telephone;' Edna states.
"I felt like a
hermit when we were without a telephone. Those invitations that usually come by
telephone didn't come at all then."
A second ad
features Edna marooned on a desert island. It's headlined "Like poor
old Robinson Crusoe — no telephone."
The Liberals won
the 1933 provincial election in a landslide, taking 34 of 47 seats and 42 per
cent of the vote. The CCF was contesting its first full election and became
the official Opposition, taking seven seats and 31.5 per cent of the vote.
One woman was
elected to the legislature, only the second to be elected in B.C. history. The
Sun had her photo the next day, and a small story on her victory. But she was
identified as Mrs. Paul Smith, rather than by her own name, Helen.
JOHN MACKIE
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