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(1930s) I'm No Angel
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1930s Highlights
Movies
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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I'm No Angel
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<p>(October 16, 1933)
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<p> The Central Association of Obstetricians & Gynecologists,
meeting in Milwaukee last week congratulated Mae West for
popularizing plump female figures, called her style "a boon to
motherhood." The Hays organization should be grateful to the
C.A.O.&G. because it would be difficult to find any other
grounds for considering Mae West a good influence on the U.S.
cinema public. The narratives and conversation in her pictures,
which she writes herself, are only less suggestive than her
extraordinary gait--a combination of slink, strut, and waggle.
Uttered in her slurring, husky voice, Mae West's slogan--"Come up and see me some time"--sounds like the composite
catchphrase of all improper stories. Because Actress West's
manner of dealing with her material is light-hearted rather than
lubricious, I'm No Angel, like She Done Him Wrong, is much more
amusing than offensive.
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