Go West Young Man (1936)
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33% of users liked it
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Go West, Young Man represented the first time that Mae West starred in a film not originally written with her in mind. Based on Lawrence Riley's stage comedy Personal Appearance (which starred Gladys George on Broadway), the film casts La West as Mavis Alden, a pretentious and somewhat stupid… More Go West, Young Man represented the first time that Mae West starred in a film not originally written with her in mind. Based on Lawrence Riley's stage comedy Personal Appearance (which starred Gladys George on Broadway), the film casts La West as Mavis Alden, a pretentious and somewhat stupid movie star who is shipped out on a nationwide promotional tour of her latest picture, Drifting Lady. Stranded in a backwater Pennsylvania town, she finds time for a chaste romance with local gas-station attendant Bud (Randolph Scott). Her enthusiastic press agent tries to stage-manage a wedding between the two casual lovers, whereupon West wriggles out of the commitment by renouncing Scott -- repeating the flowery dialogue from her newest cinematic masterpiece. Mae West is moderately amusing in an uncharacteristic assignment, but one wonders what the results would have been if Paramount had allowed her to star in her first choice of assignments: A satirical biography of Catherine the Great. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Henry Hathaway
- Written By
- Mae West
- Genres
- Comedy
Unrated,
- On DVD
- Aug 4, 1993
Critic Reviews
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Censorship took away most reasons to see this punch-less pic.
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Cast
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Mae West
as Mavis Arden
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Warren William
as Morgan
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Randolph Scott
as Bud Norton
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Lyle Talbot
as Francis X. Harrigan
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Alice Brady
as Mrs. Struthers
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Isabel Jewell
as Gladys
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Elizabeth Patterson
as Aunt Kate
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Margaret Perry
as Joyce
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Maynard Holmes
as Clyde
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Alice Ardell
as Maid
- Eddie Dunn
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Dick Elliott
as Reporter
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G.P. Huntley
as Embassy Officer
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Etienne Girardot
as Prof. Rigby
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John Indrisano
as Chauffeur
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Charles Irwin
as Master of Ceremonies
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Si Jenks
as Bumpkin
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Jack LaRue
as Rico
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Nick Stewart [Nicodemus]
as Nicodemus
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Walter Walker
as Andy Kelton
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Xavier Cugat
as Himself
