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She Done Him Wrong, American romantic comedy film, released in 1933, that helped establish both Mae West and Cary Grant as major movie stars. The film is set in 1890s Manhattan and centres on Lady Lou (played by West), who works at a saloon and is the mistress of its crooked owner, Gus Jordan (Noah
- Lee Pfeiffer
The Mae West film “She Done Him Wrong” was credited with helping to bring Paramount Pictures out of bankruptcy. It also helped make her a star in Hollywood and gave her the opportunity to...
- David Polk
- 3 min
She Done Him Wrong: Directed by Lowell Sherman. With Mae West, Cary Grant, Owen Moore, Gilbert Roland. In the Gay Nineties, a seductive nightclub singer contends with several suitors, including a jealous escaped convict and a handsome temperance league member.
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- Comedy, Drama, History
- Lowell Sherman
- 1933-02-09
“She Done Him Wrong” is listed in the film’s credits as being “By Mae West,” with no reference to the source play. Some of the more blatant lines were replaced with new ones which got their effect through implication, insinuation and innuendo, which Mae actually found funnier.
Aug 20, 2022 · In 1933, She Done Him Wrong—an adaptation of Mae West’s own play Diamond Lil (1928)—was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar category, but it lost to Cavalcade. The young Cary Grant had caught Mae West’s eye in the studio, whereupon she had queried about him to one of Paramount’s office boys.
She Done Him Wrong was a huge hit. Made for just $200,000, half of which went to West for writing and starring, it returned $2 million domestically on its initial release and another $1 million in international markets.
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SHE DONE HIM WRONG is a hard-knocks tale of Bowery bruisers who dance attendance upon the 'Lady Lou' and often resort to crime to keep her dripping in the diamonds she prizes above all else.
