My Little Chickadee (1940)

Directed by

Edward F. Cline

Genre

comedy film, Western film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 23m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 35 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two con artists in the Old West team up for a series of misadventures. The film is full of witty banter and playful mockery of Western tropes.

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What happens

My Little Chickadee is a 1940 American comedy-western film starring Mae West and W. C. Fields, featuring Joseph Calleia, Ruth Donnelly, Margaret Hamilton, Donald Meek, Willard Robertson, Dick Foran, William B. Davidson, and Addison Richards, and released by Universal Pictures. It was directed by Edward F. Cline and the music was written by Ben Oakland (song "Willie of the Valley") and Frank Skinner. West reportedly wrote the original screenplay, with Fields contributing one extended scene set in a bar. Universal decided to give the stars equal screenplay credit, perhaps to avoid the appearance of favoritism, but the move incensed West, who declined to team with Fields afterwards. The stars spoofed themselves and the Western genre, with West providing a series of her trademark double entendres. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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