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Mae West [videorecording] : the glamour collection / Universal.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 28453 | Universal PicturesLanguage: English Subtitle language: English, French, Spanish Series: Franchise collectionPublication details: Universal City, CA : Universal Pictures : Distributed by Universal Studios Home Entertainment, c2006.Description: 2 videodiscs (ca. 417 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 1417069929
  • 9781417069927
Other title:
  • Glamour collection
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Disc 1, Side A: Night after night / Universal ; a Paramount Picture ; Paramount presents ; directed by Archie Mayo ; screen play by Vincent Lawrence ; from the story "Single Night" by Louis Bromfield (1932) (84 min.) -- I'm no angel / Universal ; a Paramount Picture ; Paramount presents ; directed by Wesley Ruggles ; story, screen play and all dialogue by Mae West (1933) (88 min.) -- Side B: Goin' to town / Universal ; a Paramount Picture ; Adolph Zukor presents ; produced by William LeBaron ; directed by Alexander Hall ; screen play and dialogue by Mae West ; from a story by Marion Morgan and George B. Dowell (1935) (81 min.).
Disc 2, Side A: Go west young man / Universal ; a Paramount Picture ; Adolph Zukor presents ; screen play by Mae West ; based on the stage play "Personal Appearance" by Lawrence Riley as presented by Brock Pemberton and Antoinette Perry ; directed by Henry Hathaway ; an Emanuel Cohen production (1936) (80 min.) -- My little chickadee / Universal ; a Universal Picture ; Universal presents ; original screenplay, Mae West and W.C. Fields ; produced by Lester Cowan ; directed by Edward F. Cline (1940) (84 min.).
Production credits:
  • Go west young man: Photography, Karl Struss ; music, Arthur Johnston ; lyrics, John Burke ; editing, Ray Curtiss ; art direction, Wiard Ihner ; gowns, Irene Jones.
  • Goin' to town: Photographed by Karl Struss ; music by Sammy Fain ; lyrics by Irving Kahal ; Miss West's costumes designed by Travis Banton.
  • I'm no angel: Photographed by Leo Tover ; music by Harvey Brooks ; lyrics by Gladys duBois and Ben Ellison ; suggestions by Lowell Brentano ; continuity by Harlan Thompson.
  • My little chickadee: Director of photography, Joseph Valentine ; art director, Jack Otterson ; film editor, Edward Curtiss ; gowns, Vera West ; musical director, Charles Previn ; musical score, Frank Skinner.
  • Night after night: Photographed by Ernest Haller ; continuity by Kathryn Scola.
Go west young man: Mae West (Mavis Arden), Warren William (Morgan), Randolph Scott (Bud Norton), Alice Brady (Mrs. Struthers), Elizabeth Patterson (Aunt Kate), Lyle Talbot (Francis X. Harrigan), Jack LaRue (Rico), Isabel Jewell (Gladys), Xavier Cugat and his Orchestra.Goin' to town: Mae West (Cleo Borden), Paul Cavanagh (Edward Carrington), Gilbert Emery (Winslow), Marjorie Gateson (Mrs. Crane Brittony), Tito Coral (Taho), Ivan Lebedeff (Ivan Valadov), Fred Kohler (Buck Gonzales), Monroe Owsley (Fletcher Colton), Grant Withers (Young fellow), Vladimar Bykoff.My little chickadee: Mae West (Flower Belle Lee), W.C. Fields (Cuthbert J. Twillie), Joseph Calleia (Jeff Badger), Dick Foran (Wayne Carter), Ruth Donnelly (Aunt Lou), Margaret Hamilton (Mrs. Gideon), Donald Meek (Amos Budge).Cast: I'm no angel: Mae West (Tira), Cary Grant (Jack Clayton), Gregory Ratoff (Benny Pinkowitz), Edward Arnold (Big Bill Barton), Ralf Harolde (Slick Wiley), Kent Taylor (Kirk Lawrence), Gertrude Michael (Alicia Hatton), Russell Hopton (The Barker), Dorothy Peterson (Thelma), Wm. B. Davidson (The Chump), Gertrude Howard (Beulah).Cast: Night after night: George Raft (Joe Anton), Constance Cummings (Miss Jerry Healy), Wynne Gibson (Iris Dawn), Mae West (Maudie Triplett), Alison Skipworth (Miss Mabel Jellyman).Summary: Mae West had an inexhaustibly playful interest in language, and a rare, sometimes perplexing, and even lofty wit, spiced by low-down slang. Well before the second wave of feminism, she wrote all her own material, insisted on total control of her work, and was wildly popular for a short time, right before the Production Code lowered the boom on adult attitudes being expressed in films. She made only 12 movies, but three are first-rate, and these were enough to seal her fame and launch a legend. In her first film appearance, "Night after night," a successful ex-boxer buys a high-class speakeasy and falls for a rich society girl. As the bold Tira in "I'm no angel," she works as a dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. For "Goin' to town," West goes Western. Cleo Borden is a former dance hall queen who has become newly rich. She falls for--and pursues--an upper crust Englishman. This is followed by "Go west young man," where she plays Mavis Arden, a movie star stranded in the country. To stifle her boredom, she trifles with a young man's affections. "My little chickadee" pairs West with a legend of similar stature, W.C. Fields. As Flower Belle Lee, she is rightly suspected of illicit relations with the Masked Bandit, and run out of Little Bend. Surprisingly, things change very little when she arrives in Greasewood City to start over.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult DVD Adult DVD Main Library DVD COMEDY Mae West Available 33111006180851
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Features the films: Night After Night (1932) -- I'm No Angel (1933) -- Goin' To Town (1935) -- Go West Young Man (1936) -- My Little Chickadee (1940).

Originally produced as American motion pictures in 1932-Night after night, 1933-I'm no angel, 1935-Goin' to town, 1936-Go west young man, and 1940-My little chickadee.

Special features Disc 1 Side A: Trailer-Night after night (3 min.); Trailer-I'm no angel (2 min.); Disc 2 Side A: Trailer-My little chickadee (2 min.).

Disc 1, Side A: Night after night / Universal ; a Paramount Picture ; Paramount presents ; directed by Archie Mayo ; screen play by Vincent Lawrence ; from the story "Single Night" by Louis Bromfield (1932) (84 min.) -- I'm no angel / Universal ; a Paramount Picture ; Paramount presents ; directed by Wesley Ruggles ; story, screen play and all dialogue by Mae West (1933) (88 min.) -- Side B: Goin' to town / Universal ; a Paramount Picture ; Adolph Zukor presents ; produced by William LeBaron ; directed by Alexander Hall ; screen play and dialogue by Mae West ; from a story by Marion Morgan and George B. Dowell (1935) (81 min.).

Disc 2, Side A: Go west young man / Universal ; a Paramount Picture ; Adolph Zukor presents ; screen play by Mae West ; based on the stage play "Personal Appearance" by Lawrence Riley as presented by Brock Pemberton and Antoinette Perry ; directed by Henry Hathaway ; an Emanuel Cohen production (1936) (80 min.) -- My little chickadee / Universal ; a Universal Picture ; Universal presents ; original screenplay, Mae West and W.C. Fields ; produced by Lester Cowan ; directed by Edward F. Cline (1940) (84 min.).

Go west young man: Photography, Karl Struss ; music, Arthur Johnston ; lyrics, John Burke ; editing, Ray Curtiss ; art direction, Wiard Ihner ; gowns, Irene Jones.

Goin' to town: Photographed by Karl Struss ; music by Sammy Fain ; lyrics by Irving Kahal ; Miss West's costumes designed by Travis Banton.

I'm no angel: Photographed by Leo Tover ; music by Harvey Brooks ; lyrics by Gladys duBois and Ben Ellison ; suggestions by Lowell Brentano ; continuity by Harlan Thompson.

My little chickadee: Director of photography, Joseph Valentine ; art director, Jack Otterson ; film editor, Edward Curtiss ; gowns, Vera West ; musical director, Charles Previn ; musical score, Frank Skinner.

Night after night: Photographed by Ernest Haller ; continuity by Kathryn Scola.

Go west young man: Mae West (Mavis Arden), Warren William (Morgan), Randolph Scott (Bud Norton), Alice Brady (Mrs. Struthers), Elizabeth Patterson (Aunt Kate), Lyle Talbot (Francis X. Harrigan), Jack LaRue (Rico), Isabel Jewell (Gladys), Xavier Cugat and his Orchestra.

Goin' to town: Mae West (Cleo Borden), Paul Cavanagh (Edward Carrington), Gilbert Emery (Winslow), Marjorie Gateson (Mrs. Crane Brittony), Tito Coral (Taho), Ivan Lebedeff (Ivan Valadov), Fred Kohler (Buck Gonzales), Monroe Owsley (Fletcher Colton), Grant Withers (Young fellow), Vladimar Bykoff.

My little chickadee: Mae West (Flower Belle Lee), W.C. Fields (Cuthbert J. Twillie), Joseph Calleia (Jeff Badger), Dick Foran (Wayne Carter), Ruth Donnelly (Aunt Lou), Margaret Hamilton (Mrs. Gideon), Donald Meek (Amos Budge).

I'm no angel: Mae West (Tira), Cary Grant (Jack Clayton), Gregory Ratoff (Benny Pinkowitz), Edward Arnold (Big Bill Barton), Ralf Harolde (Slick Wiley), Kent Taylor (Kirk Lawrence), Gertrude Michael (Alicia Hatton), Russell Hopton (The Barker), Dorothy Peterson (Thelma), Wm. B. Davidson (The Chump), Gertrude Howard (Beulah).

Night after night: George Raft (Joe Anton), Constance Cummings (Miss Jerry Healy), Wynne Gibson (Iris Dawn), Mae West (Maudie Triplett), Alison Skipworth (Miss Mabel Jellyman).

Mae West had an inexhaustibly playful interest in language, and a rare, sometimes perplexing, and even lofty wit, spiced by low-down slang. Well before the second wave of feminism, she wrote all her own material, insisted on total control of her work, and was wildly popular for a short time, right before the Production Code lowered the boom on adult attitudes being expressed in films. She made only 12 movies, but three are first-rate, and these were enough to seal her fame and launch a legend. In her first film appearance, "Night after night," a successful ex-boxer buys a high-class speakeasy and falls for a rich society girl. As the bold Tira in "I'm no angel," she works as a dancing beauty and lion tamer at a fair. For "Goin' to town," West goes Western. Cleo Borden is a former dance hall queen who has become newly rich. She falls for--and pursues--an upper crust Englishman. This is followed by "Go west young man," where she plays Mavis Arden, a movie star stranded in the country. To stifle her boredom, she trifles with a young man's affections. "My little chickadee" pairs West with a legend of similar stature, W.C. Fields. As Flower Belle Lee, she is rightly suspected of illicit relations with the Masked Bandit, and run out of Little Bend. Surprisingly, things change very little when she arrives in Greasewood City to start over.

MPAA Rating: Not rated. [All films.].

DVD; Region 1, NTSC; Dolby Digital 2.0 mono; full screen presentation, aspect ratio 1.33:1.

In English with optional subtitles in English SDH (subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing), French, or Spanish.

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