Belle of the Nineties (1934)

Directed by

Leo McCarey

Genre

comedy film, Western film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 13m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A nightclub singer in the 1890s uses her charm and cleverness to outwit men who try to take advantage of her. She navigates romantic entanglements and a gambling scandal in St. Louis.

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What happens

Belle of the Nineties is a 1934 American Western film directed by Leo McCarey and released by Paramount Pictures. Mae West's fourth motion picture, it was based on her original story It Ain't No Sin, which was also to be the film's title until censors objected. Johnny Mack Brown, Duke Ellington, and Katherine DeMille are also in the cast. The film is noted for being the premiere performance of the jazz standard "My Old Flame", performed by West with the Duke Ellington Orchestra. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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