JohnHowardReid Director: LOWELL SHERMAN. Screenplay: Mae West, Harvey Thew, John Bright. Based on the stage play Diamond Lil by Mae West. Photography: Charles Lang. Film editor: Alexander Hall. Art director: Robert Usher. Costumes designed by Edith Head. Songs by Ralph Rainger (music) and Leo Robin (lyrics). Choreography: Harold Hecht. Stills: Woody Bredell, Eugene Richee. Assistant director: James Dugan. Producer: William LeBaron. Runs only 66 minutes. NOTES: Nominated for Hollywood's most prestigious award for Best Film, "She Done Him Wrong" was passed over in favor of "Cavalcade".For an outlay of only $200,000, this movie earned a marvelous initial rentals gross of $2.2 million on the domestic market alone, placing it in sixth position for the year. (Another West vehicle, "I'm No Angel", was third).COMMENT: Surely the most famous invitation in the whole history of the movies is Mae West's "Come up and see me sometime!" (as it is usually slightly misquoted). I've heard this line quoted in other movies, I've seen it emblazoned across advertising bill-boards, I've read it again and again in books, and I've listened to its use time after time as a popular catch-cry. It's been repeated so often in fact in so many ways among so many people, it's become a household phrase, part of the language, an intrinsic euphemism in everyday speech. The only other words of screen dialogue that have come anywhere near it in popularity are Clint Eastwood's challenging "Go ahead, make my day!"As for the movie itself, it is every bit as delightful today as it was on first release, way back in 1933, just as the Great Depression was starting to bite!

SimonJack "She Done Him Wrong" is an early hit film for both Mae West and Cary Grant. West is Lady Lou and Grant is Captain Cummings. Other key players include Owen Moore as Chick Clark, Gilbert Roland as Serge Stanieff, Noah Beery as Gus Jordan, David Landau as Dan Flynn, and Rafaeta Ottiano as Russian Rita. The cast are all good and the story is interesting, if a little slow. Others describe the plot, and I thought some movie buffs would be interested in some of the background of the movie and the stars. This film is credited as the movie that made Mae West a star. It was only her second film, but first lead role. She already had made her mark on Broadway where she acted in plays that she wrote for herself. In an introduction on the DVD of this movie, host Robert Osborne says that this film saved Paramount studios from bankruptcy. Paramount was due to go under, but the box office from "She Done Him Wrong" put the company back in the black. And, with Mae West as the studio's new star, Paramount continued on its track back as one of the big filmmakers. The movie also helped push Cary Grant's career. Grant had risen to male leads in three films the year before. A check of histories elsewhere affirms that Mae West's two films in 1933 (the other being "I'm No Angel") were a boost to Paramount, but none attributed the recovery directly to that. The company remained in trouble for a time. Studio head Adolph Zukor is credited with pulling the company out of receivership. He had also acquired a number of other top stars along with West and Grant. Those included Claudette Colbert, Bing Crosby, Marlene Dietrich, Carole Lombard, Jeanette MacDonald, and the Marx Brothers. They all made some hit movies that helped restore Paramount's star. Osborne related some interesting background on this movie. Mae West had written and starred in the hit 1928 Broadway play on which it is based, "Diamond Lil." But, when Paramount bought the movie rights, apparently the Production Code office notified the studio that there was no way it could make "Diamond Lil" into a movie. The play was far too racy for the motion picture industry's new standards. So, Mae West, the other writers and the director went to work to revise the film. The first thing they did was change the name. The new screenplay replaced racy dialog and scenes with innuendo and double entendre. Osborne said that Mae West later was quoted as saying that the Production Code led to better movies because the studios wrote better stories with innuendo and suggestion that made them much funnier than they were otherwise. It's interesting too that West made only 13 films in her movie career. Three of those were more than two decades after she left Hollywood in 1943 to return to the stage and nightclub entertaining. She was 87 and living in Hollywood when she died in 1980. Of course, all those other names above from Paramount went on to become huge stars as well. This is a good film, but nothing special. West made only two films considered very good –"'I'm No Angel" and "My Little Chicaddee." She was more of a sex symbol with a come-on persona, than she was an actress. She had some good years on stage, acting and writing, and she worked the nightclub circuit for most of her career. Here, West sings "Frankie and Johnny," which may be the first time that long-time popular American song was used in the movies.

gavin6942 In the Gay Nineties, a seductive nightclub singer (Mae West) contends with several suitors, including a jealous escaped convict and a handsome temperance league member.The film was adapted from the successful Broadway play Diamond Lil by Mae West. The Hays Code declared the play banned from the screen and repeatedly demanded changes to remove associations with or elements from the play, including suggested titles with the word "diamond". The adaption was finally allowed under the condition that the play not be referred to in publicity or advertising. Wow, how racy was this play? This is the definitive Mae West film, probably her best. We get a variation of her classic "come up and see me" line. And, even better, we get a very early Cary Grant. Wet claimed to have discovered him, and there is more than a little truth to that. This is likely his first film that was widely seen and is still enjoyed today (2016).

bigverybadtom This movie is known for Mae West having said the (often-misquoted) line, "Why don't you come up sometime and see me? I'm home every evening." It even won the award known as "Outstanding Production" for 1933, and it supposedly prompted the Hays Commission to crack down on movie standards.Based on the stage play "Diamond Lil", West plays the girlfriend of a criminal bar owner who has bought her expensive diamonds, but she has cheated on him with a variety of other men. One of them is none other than an undercover policeman who is after said bar owner.The movie had good potential for comedy or drama, but realizes neither. It is instead dull, and Mae West proved to be a weak performer and an even worse singer. Presumably she was more famous for being rebellious than for her talent.