{"id":25437,"date":"2012-04-23T09:19:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T16:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=25437"},"modified":"2020-12-19T12:20:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T19:20:41","slug":"im-no-angel-1933","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=25437","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m No Angel (1933)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;When I&#8217;m good, I&#8217;m very good. But when I&#8217;m bad&#8230; I&#8217;m better!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Im-No-Angel-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Im-No-Angel-Poster-193x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-25438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Im-No-Angel-Poster-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Im-No-Angel-Poster-82x128.jpg 82w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Im-No-Angel-Poster.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 193px) 100vw, 193px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nAn upwardly mobile, flirtatious carnival dancer (Mae West) falls in love with a wealthy businessman (Cary Grant), but must defend her seemingly unsavory past.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Carnivals and Circuses<\/li>\n<li>Cary Grant Films<\/li>\n<li>Cross-Class Romance<\/li>\n<li>Mae West Films<\/li>\n<li>Social Climbers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nAlong with <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=71\"><em>She Done Him Wrong<\/em> (1932)<\/a>, <em>I&#8217;m No Angel<\/em> is notorious as one of the films that finally put Hollywood&#8217;s self-appointed morality police over the edge, leading to much more stringent guidelines about what was permissible on screen. Indeed, with a script written by the inimitably salacious Mae West, one would expect nothing less than a series of barely-concealed sexual zingers &#8212; and that&#8217;s pretty much what you get here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Grant<\/strong>: You were wonderful tonight.<br \/>\n<strong>West<\/strong>: I&#8217;m always wonderful at night.<\/p>\n<p><strong>West<\/strong> <em>(to Grant, after refusing his money)<\/em>: You&#8217;ve got a lot of other things it takes to make a woman happy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately, as enjoyably giggle-worthy as these innuendos are, they aren&#8217;t enough to sustain the paper-thin plot, which is based on the wholly preposterous notion that West&#8217;s sexual allure is enough to turn nearly every able-bodied man she meets to mush (talk about giggle-worthy!). This one is purely a vehicle for West to demonstrate her exaggerated sense of narcissistic self-worth &#8212; but film fanatics curious to get a taste of West would be better off watching her in a more involving vehicle. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> <em>I&#8217;m No Angel<\/em> is also notable as the film in which West quips the infamous line &#8220;Beulah, peel me a grape&#8221; to her maid (Gertrude Howard). <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some fun gowns<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Im-No-Angel-Cobweb-Gown.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Im-No-Angel-Cobweb-Gown.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-25439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Im-No-Angel-Cobweb-Gown.png 640w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Im-No-Angel-Cobweb-Gown-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Im-No-Angel-Cobweb-Gown-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Plenty of typically zingy West-ian retorts and one-liners:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Nigel de Brulier (as Rajah the Fortune Teller)<\/strong>: I see a man in your life.<br \/>\n<strong>West<\/strong>: What? Only one?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo; despite its historical relevance, this isn&#8217;t among West&#8217;s best films, and is only must-see for her admirers. Listed as a film with Historical Importance in the back of Peary&#8217;s book. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0024166\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thespinningimage.co.uk\/cultfilms\/displaycultfilm.asp?\">Spinning Image Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmsite.org\/imno.html\">FilmSite Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvdtalk.com\/dvdsavant\/s1870west.htmlreviewid=1848&#038;aff=13\">DVD Savant Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/title\/79021\/im-no-angel#articles-reviews?articleId=25804\">TCM Article<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When I&#8217;m good, I&#8217;m very good. But when I&#8217;m bad&#8230; I&#8217;m better!&#8221; Synopsis: An upwardly mobile, flirtatious carnival dancer (Mae West) falls in love with a wealthy businessman (Cary Grant), but must defend her seemingly unsavory past. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Carnivals and Circuses Cary Grant Films Cross-Class Romance Mae West Films Social Climbers Review: Along with She Done Him Wrong (1932), I&#8217;m No Angel is notorious as one of the films that finally put Hollywood&#8217;s self-appointed morality police&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=25437\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25437"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58478,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25437\/revisions\/58478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}