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1943 Certificate TBC
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Musical comedy featuring a heat wave of beautiful girls, gags, rhythm and romance. Fay Lawrence (Mae West) is a famous Broadway actress starring in a dud play produced by chiseler Tony Ferris. Swept in the fame of it all, West betrays her producer who truly loves her for more glitzy opportunities but will this turn out to be a hoax? Read more

Starring Mae West, Victor Moore, William Gaxton, Lester Allen
Director Gregory Ratoff
Genres Comedy, Music/Musical

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The Heat's On

Musical comedy featuring a heat wave of beautiful girls, gags, rhythm and romance. Fay Lawrence (Mae West) is a famous Broadway actress starring in a dud play produced by chiseler Tony Ferris. Swept in the fame of it all, West betrays her producer who truly loves her for more glitzy opportunities but will this turn out to be a hoax?

Starring Mae West, Victor Moore, William Gaxton, Lester Allen, Alan Dinehart, Mary Roche
Director Gregory Ratoff
Studio COLUMBIA PICTURES
Run time DVD: 1 hr 16 mins
Certificate Certificate TBC
Genres Comedy, Music/Musical
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: 05 Nov 2005
Production year: 1943
Format DVD

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  • 2 stars out of 5

    After her lively sparring match with WC Fields in My Little Chickadee, Mae West was off-screen for nearly four years until producer/director Gregory Ratoff persuaded her to return in this musical comedy, supported by veteran Victor Moore with skinny Almira Sessions in strong support as a wealthy prude. West herself was in fine shape but the script wasn't, especially after she had rewritten her part to make it more sympathetic. In fact, her role as a Broadway sex siren seems out of date and her time on screen is quite limited.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

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  • Rated - 1 star

    Not entertaining

    I am a fan of Mae West so I booked this one to see. Very disappointing, dredged up from the vaults of 1943 made to entertain the service men no doubt but no sharp witty remarks or foils to Mae West as in other films. The best thing about this film was the appearance of Hazel Scott, a remarkable singer and musician from Trinidad. She played two pianos at once whilst singing a number on stage, also in that number is trumpeter Leonard Sues, very much like Harry James. He plays a trumpet using his thumb for the first valve instead of the forefinger, as he has a glove puppet on his hand at the same time, remarkable. Sad to say none of the performers were credited at the end of the film.

    As for the story line, simple, the success of failure of a broadway show... old hat and boring. Mae West, was not at all happy with her role in this, returning to the stage and cabaret and never made another film until the 1970's.

    See this for curiosity but not for entertainment.

      • Baronchris from Bristol
      • Posted 04 Apr 2007 10:56

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