Word: goin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...goin' to whip you," he said...
Metropolitan: "Goin' To Town...
Almost equally important ingredients are the West wisecracks in which she gets the better of the man playing opposite her. Samples, in Goin' to Town: "If you're the backbone of your family, they'd better see a chiropractor." "I always kinda liked Delilah. There was one lady barber who made good." To an acquaintance who offers to take her bet at a racetrack: "You'll take...
Least important factor in the West formula are the stories she writes herself, showing her surrounded by ineffectual admirers. In Goin' to Town, she has seven of these. A cattle-town belle who inherits a fortune in Buenos Aires, she makes herself a social success in Southampton, L. I. by giving a ball at which she sings a duet from Saint-Saëns' Samson and Delilah, climaxes her career by marrying a British earl (Paul Cavanagh...
...allowed her a contract for a percentage of her pictures' profits as well as a salary. When her first pictures were an enormous hit, Hollywood labeled her a fad, but instead of declining like most fads, Mae West ceased to be one, became a U. S. institution. Goin' to Town, unlikely to increase or diminish her prestige as America's sweethot, should delight those of Actress West's admirers who are especially entranced by her facility in making a stale gag seem fresh by reciting it as though its real meaning were unprintable. Good shot...