Go West Young Man
Auf in den Westen
Source: Deutsche Kinemathek, courtesy of Universal Studios Licensing, LLC
Mae West, Randolph Scott
Go West Young Man | Auf in den Westen by Henry Hathaway
USA 1936, Retrospective
Source: Deutsche Kinemathek, courtesy of Universal Studios Licensing, LLC
Mae West, Randolph Scott
Go West Young Man | Auf in den Westen by Henry Hathaway
USA 1936, Retrospective
Source: Deutsche Kinemathek, courtesy of Universal Studios Licensing, LLC
Randolph Scott, Mae West
Go West Young Man | Auf in den Westen by Henry Hathaway
USA 1936, Retrospective
Source: Deutsche Kinemathek, courtesy of Universal Studios Licensing, LLC
Hollywood star Mavis Arden has a clause in her contract prohibiting her from marrying for five years. So her press agent Morgan worries about her secret dinner with a congressional candidate and alerts the press, hoping to scare off her beau with a scandal. Their next assignation is thwarted when Mavis’ Rolls Royce breaks down on tour. She and Morgan end up in a rural boarding house, where Mavis turns her lustful eyes on the hunky car mechanic. And like the character she most recently played in “Drifting Lady”, she breaks her rival’s heart. But unlike in the film-within-a-film, real life proffers up a happy ending ... In this comedy set in the film industry, the press agent figure functions as a kind of censor-on-the-hoof for his charge, and Mae West uses that construct to shake off all constraints on her erotic appeal. In both word and deed, Mavis defies any attempts to tame her promiscuous onscreen persona into the well-burnished image of a studio star. A long speech she is seemingly ordered to give, pleading for more marriages, is belied by the concise closing line spoken by the “Drifting Lady” – “men are my life”.
With
- Mae West
- Warren William
- Randolph Scott
- Alice Brady
- Elizabeth Patterson
- Lyle Talbot
- Isabell Jewell
- Margaret Perry
- Etienne Girardot
- Maynard Holmes
Crew
| Director | Henry Hathaway |
| Screenplay | Mae West based on the play “Personal Appearance” (1934) by Lawrence Riley |
| Cinematography | Karl Struss |
| Editing | Ray Curtiss |
| Sound | Hugo Grenzbach |
| Art Director | Wiard B. Ihnen |
| Costumes | Irene Jones |
| Producer | Emanuel Cohen |
Produced by
Major Pictures Corp. (An Emanuel Cohen Production)
Additional information
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