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My Little Chickadee is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Edward F. Cline released in USA on 9 february 1940 with Mae West
My Little Chickadee (1940)
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Add to a movie listMy Little Chickadee is a 1940 American comedy-western film starring Mae West and W.C. Fields, with Joseph Calleia, Ruth Donnelly, Margaret Hamilton, Donald Meek, Willard Robertson, Dick Foran, William B. Davidson, and Addison Richards. The film was released by Universal Studios. It was directed by Edward F. Cline. The original 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 re-team with Fields afterwards. The stars spoofed themselves and the Western genre, with West providing a series of her trademark double entendres.
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The story is set in the American Old West of the 1880s. Miss Flower Belle Lee (Mae West) is a singer from Chicago who is on her way to visit relatives out west. While she is traveling on a stagecoach with three men and a woman named Mrs. Gideon (Margaret Hamilton), the town gossip and busybody, a masked bandit on horseback holds up the stage for its shipment of gold and orders the passengers to step out.Actors
Mae West
(Flower Belle Lee)
W. C. Fields
(Cuthbert J. Twillie)
Joseph Calleia
(Jeff Badger)
Dick Foran
(Wayne Carter)
Margaret Hamilton
(Mrs. Gideon)
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