MAE WEST Sheet Music I'M NO ANGEL I WANT YOU I NEED YOU

VINTAGE MAE WEST SHEET MUSIC

FILM:  "I'M NO ANGEL" 
 
COVER:  MAE WEST IN LONG EVENING GOWN

SONG: "I WANT YOU, I NEED YOU" 

YEAR OF RELEASE:  1933
 
Music by: Harvey Brooks ~ Lyrics by Ben Ellison

NOTES:  Teaser portion of "THAT DALLAS MAN" ON INSIDE COVER.    BACK COVER HAS GREAT BIOGRAPHY TYPE PARAGRAPH WRITTEN ABOUT MAE WEST OF PARAMOUNT PICTURES.  TELLS HOW SHE IS PROUD OF HER CURVES WEIGHING 119 POUNDS AND FIVE FOOT FOUR.  THEY MAKE IT SOUND LIKE SHE IS FAT.  GREAT PIECE OF MAE WEST HISTORY. 

CONDITION: Sheet Music is Complete, has wear, a small tear on the top edge and a name in ink at the bottom.  Several white lines and from aging and handling.  There is the beginnings of seam split and a very light Music Store stamp at the top right hand side (SEE PHOTO).

 I'm No Angel is Mae West's second star vehicle. She plays the sideshow attraction Tira, "the girl who discovered you don't have to have feet to be a dancer." As usual, West wrote all her own dialogue for the film, and it's full of priceless wisecracks. A crowd of men ogles her as she tosses off a saucy little number, "They Call Me Sister Honky Tonk," swinging her hips phlegmatically. Then she slithers offstage, muttering "Suckers." Bored with life, Tira consults a fortuneteller. "I see a man in your future," he drones. "What, only one?" quips Mae. Tira wants to quit the carnival, so her boss (an unctuous Edward Arnold) makes her a proposition. If she'll become the show's lion tamer, she can meet "the swells." Just one little thing: she's got to put her head in the lion's mouth. (West insisted on performing this stunt herself, to the horror of Paramount Pictures' executives.) Enter Cary Grant as Jack Clayton, an aristocrat who falls for this floozie from the wrong side of the tracks. Some of the film's merriest scenes show Tira and her five black maids having a ball dancing and singing as she prepares for her dates with Jack. (West made it her business to keep as many of her black girlfriends working in movies as possible.) Tira's head maid, Beulah, played by Gertrude Michael, is the object of that momentous line "Oh, Beulah, peel me a grape." Mae slays 'em all in this film, dressed, as always, in her fabulously flamboyant finery.

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