My Little Chickadee
My Little Chickadee
Réalisation:
Edward F. ClinePhotographie:
Joseph A. ValentineMusique:
Frank SkinnerActeurs·trices:
Mae West, W.C. Fields, Joseph Calleia, Dick Foran, Ruth Donnelly, Margaret Hamilton, Donald Meek, Fuzzy Knight, Willard Robertson, Anne Nagel (plus)Résumés(1)
The plot has Flowerbelle Lee (West) and Cuthbert J. Twillie (Fields) meeting onboard a train where they undergo a sham wedding and are attacked by Indians. They settle in the town of Dry Gulch, where Cuthbert ends up sheriff as a result of his endless bragging at the poker table. He also bartends at the local saloon, where he tangles with an inebriated Mrs. "Pygmy" Allen (Fay Adler). Flowerbelle meanwhile teaches school, sings "Lily of the Valley," and goes after younger men like Wayne Carter (Dick Foran) and Jeff Badger (Joseph Calleia). When Cuthbert gets mistaken for a masked bandit it's up to Flowerbelle to strap on a pair of six-shooters and ride to his rescue. (texte officiel du distributeur)
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Critiques (1)
Universal explicitly benefited from the 1938 Box Office Poison case. The stars then labeled as box office poison were forced to change their style, take a break and rethink their comebacks. Some were more successful, others less so. Dietrich was successful with the western Destry Rides Again (1939); her Paramount colleague Mae West made her western with Universal a year later. My Little Chickadee is a film of two stars, West and W.C. Fields, and while both were and still are Broadway legends and artists coming out of the best vaudeville tradition, here they had to keep it quite low-key. Seeing the two of them together is a decent source of entertainment, but the entertainment is safe, cautious, and nostalgic, and all the eroticism that used to be West's hallmark is here only in a light version.
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