{"id":71,"date":"2006-03-10T19:36:40","date_gmt":"2006-03-11T02:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=71"},"modified":"2021-02-05T01:27:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T08:27:59","slug":"she-done-him-wrong-1932","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"She Done Him Wrong (1932)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;When women go wrong, men go right after them.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table\n\n\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/She-Done-Him-Wrong-Poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/She-Done-Him-Wrong-Poster-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-23014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/She-Done-Him-Wrong-Poster-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/She-Done-Him-Wrong-Poster-86x128.jpg 86w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/She-Done-Him-Wrong-Poster.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nDiamond Lil (Mae West) works in the saloon of her benefactor Gus (Noah Beery, Sr.), who secretly traffics in white slavery and counterfeiting.  Meanwhile, an undercover cop posing as a Salvation Army captain (Cary Grant) tries to arrest Gus and his cronies.  <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cary Grant Films<\/li>\n<li>Mae West Films<\/li>\n<li>Musicals<\/li>\n<li>Play Adaptations<\/li>\n<li>Strong Females<\/li>\n<li>Undercover Cops and Agents<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review:<\/strong><br \/>\nAs Peary notes, this classic Mae West vehicle &#8212; in which &#8220;West struts her way through Gay Nineties New York, encountering all sorts of unsavory characters&#8221; who &#8220;either die or go to jail&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;is not the comedy masterpiece that many critics contend it to be.&#8221; Nonetheless, West &#8220;got to showcase her self-assured and uninhibited pre-Legion of Decency brand of sexuality, in which she lets fly with double entendres, which usually relate to her own sexual prowess, and displays a brazen sex-is-fun attitude that only Jean Harlow shared with her.&#8221; He adds that it&#8217;s &#8220;amazing that one moment she can look so overweight and ridiculous strapped into her tight garments&#8221;, and &#8220;a second later&#8221; be &#8220;mysteriously seductive as she bats her lashes and raises her eyebrows, grins knowingly, swings out a hip, and says something women are supposedly too shy to say.&#8221; West is a pleasure to watch &#8212; but be forewarned that while you&#8217;ll enjoy the quips, you&#8217;ll forget the plot immediately. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cary Grant in his first major role<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/She-Done-Him-Wrong-Still-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/She-Done-Him-Wrong-Still-1-1024x739.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"462\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-68881\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/She-Done-Him-Wrong-Still-1-1024x739.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/She-Done-Him-Wrong-Still-1-300x216.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/She-Done-Him-Wrong-Still-1-128x92.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/She-Done-Him-Wrong-Still-1-768x554.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/She-Done-Him-Wrong-Still-1-374x270.png 374w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/03\/She-Done-Him-Wrong-Still-1.png 1307w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Mae drawling one of the most (mis)quoted lines in movie history:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Why don&#8217;t you come up sometime and see me?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>Plenty of memorable quips:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I wasn&#8217;t always rich. No, there was a time I didn&#8217;t know where my next husband was coming from.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See?<\/strong><br \/>\nYes.  As one of the key movies which prompted the formation of the Hays Production Code, it&#8217;s a part of cinematic history film fanatics shouldn&#8217;t miss. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Historically Relevant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> (<span style=\"color:red;font-weight:bold;\">Listed in <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-static\/1001Movies.htm\"><em>1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die<\/em><\/a><\/span>) <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0024548\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmsite.org\/shed.html\">Greatest Films Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/title\/89849\/she-done-him-wrong#articles-reviews?articleId=25805\">TCM Article<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When women go wrong, men go right after them.&#8221;<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","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=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68882,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/68882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}