Klondike Annie Details

Even in her later pictures, Mae West refused to be tamed, provoking the usual fierce attacks from the forces of righteousness. In this picture, they objected to her being the mistress of an Oriental, a murderess who then masquerades as a missionary (even though she helps get the local hall back on its feet), and a performer of songs such as I'm an Occidental Woman in an Oriental Mood for Love. Mae wrote the script and typically cast as the men in her life lumpish actors — Victor McLaglen and Philip Reed — who wouldn't steal any of her limelight. Audiences loved it then, and it's still good fun.

Action man Raoul Walsh must have been chafing at the bit as Mae West let the suggestive drawl of her dialogue dictate... read more on Time Out