Heat's On (1943)
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After an absence of three years, Mae West returned to the screen in the musical comedy The Heat's On. La West is cast as Fay Lawrence, a famous Broadway actress who is loved intensely by her producer Tony Ferris (William Gaxton). Rival producer Forrest Stanton (Alan Dinehart) steals Fay away… More After an absence of three years, Mae West returned to the screen in the musical comedy The Heat's On. La West is cast as Fay Lawrence, a famous Broadway actress who is loved intensely by her producer Tony Ferris (William Gaxton). Rival producer Forrest Stanton (Alan Dinehart) steals Fay away from Ferris by convincing her that she's been blacklisted from Broadway by blue-nosed moralist Hannah Bainbridge (Almira Sessions). Meanwhile, Hannah's puckish brother Hubert (Victor Moore) syphons money from his sister's "clean up show business" committee to produce a musical show for his actress niece Janey (Mary Roche). Somehow, all these characters converge for a spectacular closing production number spotlighting the formidable Fay. Part of the reason for the failure of The Heat's On is the fact that Mae West didn't write her own dialogue, as was usually her custom. The film performed so poorly that it would be 27 years before West would again appear on the Big Screen. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Gregory Ratoff
- Written By
- Fitzroy Davis, George S. George, Fred Schiller
- Genres
- Musical & Performing Arts, Comedy
Unrated,
Critic Reviews
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
It would be difficult to make a worse musical/comedy.
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Cast
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Mae West
as Fay Lawrence
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Victor Moore
as Hubert Bainbridge
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Lloyd Bridges
as Andy Walker
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William Gaxton
as Tony Ferris
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Mary Roche
as Janey Bainbridge
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Hazel Scott
as Herself
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Almira Sessions
as Hannah Bainbridge
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Lester Allen
as Mouse Beller
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Alan Dinehart
as Forrest Stanton
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Sam Ash
as Frank
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Xavier Cugat
as Xavier Cugat
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Lina Romay
as Lina
- Leon Belasco
- Edward Earle
- Roy Engel
- Harry Harvey
- David Lichine
- Jack Owens
- Harry Shannon
- Leonard Sues
- Joan Thorsen
- Harry Tyler
