Go West, Young Man [Blu-ray]

Director: Henry Hathaway Henry Hathaway

Overview

Go West, Young Man represented the first time that Mae West starred in a film not originally written with her in mind. Based on Lawrence Riley's stage comedy Personal Appearance (which starred Gladys George on Broadway), the film casts La West as Mavis Alden, a pretentious and somewhat stupid movie star who is shipped out on a nationwide promotional tour of her latest picture, Drifting Lady. Stranded in a backwater Pennsylvania town, she finds time for a chaste romance with local gas-station attendant Bud (Randolph Scott). Her enthusiastic press agent tries to stage-manage a wedding between the two casual lovers, whereupon West wriggles out of the commitment by renouncing Scott -- repeating the flowery dialogue from her newest cinematic masterpiece. Mae West is moderately amusing in an uncharacteristic assignment, but one wonders what the results would have been if Paramount had allowed her to star in her first choice of assignments: A satirical biography of Catherine the Great.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/29/2021
UPC:	0738329253530
Original Release:	1936
Rating:	NR
Source:	Kl Studio Classics
Language:	English
Time:	1:19:00
Sales rank:	28,074

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Mae West	Mavis Arden
Randolph Scott	Bud Norton
Warren William	Morgan
Isabel Jewell	Gladys
Alice Brady	Mrs. Struthers
Elizabeth Patterson	Aunt Kate
Lyle Talbot	Francis X. Harrigan
Margaret Perry	Joyce
Etienne Girardot	Prof. Rigby
Maynard Holmes	Clyde
John Indrisano	Chauffeur
Alice Ardell	Maid
Nicodemus Stewart	Nicodemus
Charles Irwin	Master of Ceremonies
Walter Walker	Andy Kelton
Jack LaRue	Rico
G.P. Huntley Jr.	Embassy Officer
Nick Stewart [Nicodemus]	Nicodemus
Robert Baikoff	Officer
Dick Elliott	Reporter
Xavier Cugat	Himself
Si Jenks	Bumpkin
Eddie Dunn	Security Guard at Theatre
G.P. Huntley	Embassy Officer

Technical Credits

Emanuel Cohen	Producer
Henry Hathaway	Director