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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson" data-source="post: 287377" data-attributes="member: 5079"><p>Although I am not a big fan of most of Mae's films, MY LITTLE CHICKADEE ranks high among my favorite classic films. I watch it almost annually, often paired with DESTRY RIDES AGAIN as a double feature. Mae may spin in her grave, but that is almost entirely because of Fields.</p><p></p><p>Fields' solo routines in the film are riotously funny; Mae's solo scenes are tepidly amusing. (In fairness, her bawdy humor had been entirely crippled by the Hayes Office by that point.) What's surprising is how well Fields and West work together; even though most of their shared scenes have Mae is basically Fields' straightman, they are hilarious together.</p><p></p><p>I suspect Mae knew she had been completely upstaged, based on the seething resentment and scorn she directed to Bill and the film for the rest of her life.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crimson, post: 287377, member: 5079"] Although I am not a big fan of most of Mae's films, MY LITTLE CHICKADEE ranks high among my favorite classic films. I watch it almost annually, often paired with DESTRY RIDES AGAIN as a double feature. Mae may spin in her grave, but that is almost entirely because of Fields. Fields' solo routines in the film are riotously funny; Mae's solo scenes are tepidly amusing. (In fairness, her bawdy humor had been entirely crippled by the Hayes Office by that point.) What's surprising is how well Fields and West work together; even though most of their shared scenes have Mae is basically Fields' straightman, they are hilarious together. I suspect Mae knew she had been completely upstaged, based on the seething resentment and scorn she directed to Bill and the film for the rest of her life. [/QUOTE]
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