Circus performer Tira seeks a better life pursuing the company of wealthy New York men with improbable comic complications along the way.Circus performer Tira seeks a better life pursuing the company of wealthy New York men with improbable comic complications along the way.Circus performer Tira seeks a better life pursuing the company of wealthy New York men with improbable comic complications along the way.
William B. Davidson
- The Chump Ernest Brown
- (as Wm. B. Davidson)
Bobby Barber
- Man In Crowd
- (uncredited)
Eddie Borden
- Carnival Sideshow Spectator
- (uncredited)
George Bruggeman
- Omnes
- (uncredited)
Morrie Cohan
- Bartons Chauffeur
- (uncredited)
Monte Collins
- Sailor at Circus
- (uncredited)
Ray Cooke
- Sailor at Circus
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn 1935 and 1949, the production code was more rigorously enforced, and the film was not approved for re-release.
- GoofsDuring closeup when Tira sorts through a pile of phonograph records with different titles (That Dallas Man, That Frisco Man, etc.), all the labels have same serial number.
- Quotes
Jack Clayton: You were wonderful tonight.
Tira: Yeah, I'm always wonderful at night.
Jack Clayton: Tonight, you were especially good.
Tira: Well... When I'm good, I'm very good. But, when I'm bad...
[winks at Jack]
Tira: I'm better.
- Crazy creditsBefore the Paramount logo appears on screen in the opening credits, a sign declares that the studio is an NRA (National Recovery Act) member with the text "We do our part" written beneath.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Love Goddesses (1965)
- SoundtracksThey Call Me Sister Honky-Tonk
(1933) (uncredited)
Music by Harvey Brooks
Lyrics by Gladys DuBois and Ben Ellison
Sung by Mae West
Featured review
When I'm Good, I'm Very Good. But, When I'm Bad... I'm Better
The dancer and lion tamer of a circus Tira (Mae West) meets with an admirer at a hotel room and her lover, the pickpocket Slick Wiley (Ralf Harolde) try to steal the man and hits his head with a bottle. Slick believes that he had killed the man and flees, but he is arrested by the police.
Tira fears to be betrayed by Slick and asks for a loan to Big Bill Barton (Edward Arnold) to leave the place. However, he offers her the money provided she accepts to put her head into the mouth of a lion. The show is a success and the circus move to New York, where the millionaire Kirk Lawrence (Kent Taylor), who is engaged but becomes her "protector", giving expensive gifts to Tira. But when she meets Kirk's partner Jack Clayton (Cary Grant), they fall in love with each other and decide to get married. But Big Bill does not want to lose his great attraction and plots a scheme with Slick to call off the engagement of Clayton and Tira.
"I'm No Angel" is one of the most important films of the controversial Mae West, the actress who saved Paramount Pictures from bankruptcy after the Great Depression. This actress was responsible for the censorship code in Hollywood and her malicious quotes are great. For example, "When I'm Good, I'm Very Good. But, When I'm Bad... I'm Better"; or the song "No One Does It Like a Dallas Man", that was forced to be changed "No One Loves Me Like a Dallas Man". My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "Santa Não Sou" ("Saint I am not")
Tira fears to be betrayed by Slick and asks for a loan to Big Bill Barton (Edward Arnold) to leave the place. However, he offers her the money provided she accepts to put her head into the mouth of a lion. The show is a success and the circus move to New York, where the millionaire Kirk Lawrence (Kent Taylor), who is engaged but becomes her "protector", giving expensive gifts to Tira. But when she meets Kirk's partner Jack Clayton (Cary Grant), they fall in love with each other and decide to get married. But Big Bill does not want to lose his great attraction and plots a scheme with Slick to call off the engagement of Clayton and Tira.
"I'm No Angel" is one of the most important films of the controversial Mae West, the actress who saved Paramount Pictures from bankruptcy after the Great Depression. This actress was responsible for the censorship code in Hollywood and her malicious quotes are great. For example, "When I'm Good, I'm Very Good. But, When I'm Bad... I'm Better"; or the song "No One Does It Like a Dallas Man", that was forced to be changed "No One Loves Me Like a Dallas Man". My vote is seven.
Title (Brazil): "Santa Não Sou" ("Saint I am not")
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- Jun 30, 2012
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Box office
- Budget
- $225,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $159
- Runtime1 hour 27 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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