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2 December 1943 (USA)
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Turn on the Fun! A Heat Wave of Beautiful GIRLS! GAGS! RHYTHM! and ROMANCE!
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The Prudes Do Mae Wrong
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Mae West | ... | Fay Lawrence | |
| Victor Moore | ... | Hubert Bainbridge | |
| William Gaxton | ... | Tony Ferris | |
| Lester Allen | ... | Mouse Beller | |
| Alan Dinehart | ... | Forrest Stanton | |
| Mary Roche | ... | Janey Adair | |
| Lloyd Bridges | ... | Andy Walker | |
| Almira Sessions | ... | Hannah Bainbridge | |
| Sam Ash | ... | Frank | |
| David Lichine | ... | Himself - Specialty Dancer | |
| Leonard Sues | ... | Trumpet Player | |
| Jack Owens | ... | Himself | |
| Joan Thorsen | ... | Singer | |
| Hazel Scott | ... | Herself | |
| Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra | ... | Themselves |
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Tropicana (UK)
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79 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
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USA:Approved (PCA #9658) |
USA:TV-PG (TV rating)
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Roy Engel's first film.
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Unidentified Song
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Watching this is painful. Mae West has little to do. What she has, she does decently. Mae was never a true beauty, at least not in movies. Here she looks her age and the Gay Nineties costume seems more out of place than it does in other, earlier, better movies.
She isn't even billed over the title.
It's a hapless review, with Xavier Cugat and some corn-pone comedy.
Hazel Scott's appearances are good but nothing I'd have sought out and irrelevant to Mae.
Sextette seemed like a vanity production, a mistake of her own making. This is a hodgepodge that gives her little to do and is as prim as the bluenose character in its plot (amusingly played by Almira Sessions