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to use her past relationships to discredit her, but the judge allows her to cross examine the witnesses herself and in doing so she wins over not only the judge and jury, but also Jack. Jack agrees to give her a big settlement check. When he goes to see her, Tira tears up the check, and the two reconcile.
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by a year even though Mae West always claimed to have discovered Grant for her film, amusingly elaborating that up until then he had only made "some tests with starlets." She would frequently claim to various reporters through the years that she had spotted him as an unknown walking across a parking
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Tira's fame takes her to New York City, where wealthy Kirk Lawrence is smitten, despite being engaged to snobbish socialite Alicia Hatton. He showers her with expensive gifts. Kirk's friend and even richer cousin, Jack Clayton, goes to see Tira to ask her to leave Kirk and his fiancée alone. He ends
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Tira tells Big Bill she is quitting to get married. Unwilling to lose his prize act, he has Slick, recently released from prison, sneak into Tira's penthouse suite, where Jack finds him in his robe. As a result, Jack breaks off the engagement. Tira sues Jack for breach of promise. The defense tries
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act, which includes putting her head into the mouth of one of the beasts, promising her that it will get her (and him) to the "Big Show". It does. (West did some of her own stunts, including riding an elephant into the ring.
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lot, asked who he was, and, finding that nobody knew, declared, "If he can talk, I'll use him in my next picture." This tale was routinely incorporated into magazine articles about either West or Grant.
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on the customer. The customer threatens to call the cops, so Slick whacks him over the head with a bottle. Mistakenly thinking he has killed the man, Slick flees, but is caught and jailed.
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that soon followed. The Hays Office forced a few changes, including the title of the song "No One Does It Like a Dallas Man", altered to "No One Loves Me Like a Dallas Man".
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Fearing that Slick will implicate her, Tira asks Big Bill for a loan to retain her lawyer, Bennie Pinkowitz. He agrees on condition that she does her
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West's ribald satire outraged moralists. Film historians cite her as one of the factors for the strict Hollywood
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Cary Grant starred opposite her for the second and final time; their first film together had been
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up falling for her himself. Tira and Jack’s romance leads to a wedding engagement.
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When I'm Bad, I'm Better: Mae West, Sex, and American Entertainment
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of Big Bill Barton's Wonder Show, while her current boyfriend,
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The film was Paramount's biggest hit of the year. It was also
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Sung by Mae West at the end and during the closing credits
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Lobby card for the film with Cary Grant and Mae West
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This article is about the film. For other uses, see
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Index

I'm No Angel (disambiguation)

Wesley Ruggles
Mae West
Harlan Thompson
William LeBaron
Cary Grant
Gregory Ratoff
Edward Arnold
Ralf Harolde
Leo Tover
Otho Lovering
Howard Jackson
Rudolph G. Kopp
John Leipold
Heinz Roemheld
Paramount Pictures
pre-Code
black comedy film
Wesley Ruggles
Mae West
Cary Grant
Hollywood
Hays Code

burlesque
gyrates
sideshow
pickpocket
badger game

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