| The Heat's On | |
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| Directed by | Gregory Ratoff |
| Screenplay by | Fitzroy Davis George S. George |
| Starring | Mae West Victor Moore William Gaxton |
| Cinematography | Franz Planer |
| Edited by | Otto Meyer |
| Music by | Yasha Bunchuk John Leipold |
Production company | Gregory Ratoff Productions |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 79 min |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
The Heat's On (1943) is amusical movie starringMae West,William Gaxton, andVictor Moore, and released byColumbia Pictures.[1][2][3]
Broadway star Fay Lawrence is a temperamental diva who is reluctantly persuaded by a Broadway producer to star in his latest production.
Mae West was 49 at the time of the movie's production, her first film in three years, after an interlude starring on Broadway. Unlike her previous films, for which West wrote the screenplays and/or story material, West played no part in creating the story or dialogue ofThe Heat's On. Perhaps as a result, the movie was not a box office success. West did not return to the screen until 27 years later inMyra Breckinridge (1970), and chose to pursue a successful career in theater instead.
InThe Nation in 1943, criticJames Agee wrote that the picture is a "stale-ale musical in which a lot of good people apathetically support the almost equally apathetic Mae West ... Mae West is mainly as good as ever, which is still plenty good enough for me; but evidently she and her colleagues feel that too few people agree with me."[4]Leonard Maltin declared, "Befuddled Moore and colorful Cugat are fun, but there isn't enough of West in this film; when she's on-screen, she's just as funny as ever."[5]
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