A movie star, stranded in the country, trifles with a young man's affections.A movie star, stranded in the country, trifles with a young man's affections.A movie star, stranded in the country, trifles with a young man's affections.
Nick Stewart
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- TriviaOne of the most exclusive limousines to feature in a film has a prominent role transporting Miss West's character in this story. The Rolls Royce Phantom was one of only 727 manufactured between 1936 and 1939.
- GoofsStory is set in mid-Thirties but at premiere of Mavis Arden's latest movie, stock footage of audiences watching the film are people dressed in fashions and hairstyles of some ten years earlier.
- Quotes
Mavis Arden: Don't be modest. Modesty never gets you anything. I know.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Arrebato (1979)
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No Ersatz Maes
Go West Young Man is based on a successful Broadway play, Personal Appearance which had a 501 performance run in the 1934-1935 season and made a star of Gladys George. What did Gladys do, but play a Mae West type actress stranded between Scranton and Harrisburg on a personal appearance tour.
Of course since Paramount bought the screen right and they had Mae West, why not use the real deal in the lead. So Gladys George got her screen stardom in other roles and Mae West played Marvis Arden, a film star very much like Mae West.
Mae's got a contract that says she can't marry, but being Mae she's got a healthy sexual appetite and who knows where that might lead. That's the job of Warren William, press agent assigned by her studio. He busts up all of her potential romances, but he's also got an ulterior motive.
In fact he does a very hilarious job in pouring cold water on a romance between her and a rather fatuous politician played by Lyle Talbot. But Mae gets herself stranded out in the Pennsylvania countryside and takes a real liking to young farmhand Randolph Scott.
Randy is the only weakness in the cast. I just couldn't quite accept him as the naive young farm boy. He's just played too many tough western types for me to ever buy that.
Still this is Mae West's show and she carries it off with a style that only she can employ. No ersatz Maes for the movie going public.
Of course since Paramount bought the screen right and they had Mae West, why not use the real deal in the lead. So Gladys George got her screen stardom in other roles and Mae West played Marvis Arden, a film star very much like Mae West.
Mae's got a contract that says she can't marry, but being Mae she's got a healthy sexual appetite and who knows where that might lead. That's the job of Warren William, press agent assigned by her studio. He busts up all of her potential romances, but he's also got an ulterior motive.
In fact he does a very hilarious job in pouring cold water on a romance between her and a rather fatuous politician played by Lyle Talbot. But Mae gets herself stranded out in the Pennsylvania countryside and takes a real liking to young farmhand Randolph Scott.
Randy is the only weakness in the cast. I just couldn't quite accept him as the naive young farm boy. He's just played too many tough western types for me to ever buy that.
Still this is Mae West's show and she carries it off with a style that only she can employ. No ersatz Maes for the movie going public.
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- Runtime1 hour 20 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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