She Done Him Wrong
1933, NR, 66 min.
Directed by Lowell Sherman, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Mae West, Cary Grant, Gilbert Roland, Louise Beavers, Rochelle Hudson, Rafaela Ottiano, Noah Beery.

Young Cary Grant is invited by bawdy Mae West to come visit her sometime in this classic West work. In this, her best film, West adapts her popular stage character Diamond Lil for the screen. The star also sings “Easy Rider” and “Frankie and Johnny.”

This article appears in June 16 • 2000.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.