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Belle of the Nineties (1934) Rank 4 Reviews
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Doug Pratt's DVD Review
Mae West portrays an entertainer who is romanced by a crooked theater owner and an honest fighter, but it takes her a while to sort things out. Duke Ellington is featured for several musical numbers in the 1934 production, which was directed by Leo ...read the complete Belle of the Nineties movie review at Doug Pratt's DVD Review
Doug Pratt's Laserdisc Review
It takes a half hour before West first appears on the disc, since the initial title, Night After Night, is a George Raft feature in which West had a subsidiary role. Her scenes give the film a greater comical sweep and contrast nicely with the serious ...read the complete Belle of the Nineties movie review at Doug Pratt's Laserdisc Review
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by Follower_of_Rhian... on December 21, 2007
What a classy dame! Mae West can deliver one liners second to none, and she does so in this great movie about diamonds, seduction and men. It's a common thread with her, but it never gets old. Of all the movies she's done, it's easy to say that she ...
by E. Valero "Eterno... on August 03, 2005
West plays a flamboyant singer Ruby Carter who after breaking up with her boxer boyfriend, takes a job singing at a fashionable club in New Orleans. She quickly becomes the object of desire for the area's male population and an object of envy and scorn ...
by FRESH "KAM" on July 22, 2005
I don't think that there is another star like Mae West. She saved the largest Hollywood movie producer,Paramont. Eventhough she was censored, she still had the best one liners out of all the stars! She was Irish, and all the Irish I ever knew were ...
by "Tee" on April 14, 2005
One of Mae's five best films. Yes, the movie's original script was censored, but indications are that the original was much racier than even her early ...
by Samantha Kelley "... on December 12, 2005
Belle of the Nineties is a film about a stage star known all over for her gorgeous ...
by Randy E. Halford ... on November 01, 2005
This is my first exposure (aside from seeing snippets of "My Little Chickadee" on TV) to a Mae West film, and it certainly won't be my last! I became an instant Mae West fan after viewing this one. Although "Belle.." was not Mae's strongest vehicle ...
by Jay Dickson on November 22, 2003
Like her nearest competitors the Marx brothers and W.C. Fields, Mae West worked best in films where the logic of the plot made the least ...
by Fernando Silva "f... on October 02, 2002
The Production Code certainly did its duty (and damage) with Mae West's films. Her lines and remarks were dramatically "toned down". If you compare this movie with its immediate Pre-Code predecessors "She Done Him Wrong" and "I'm No Angel", you'll know ...
by Ronald Bingham on February 02, 2000
She aint no stick figure, but she is ALL woman. Mae was the sort of woman who knew what she wanted and wasn't afraid to ask. She had a great voice for the blues and a good head for the double entendre's. It's a fun movie and never tries to take itself ...
by "scotsladdie" on January 16, 2000
More spectacular than Mae's first two vehicles, BELLE OF THE NINETIES cost more that her previous starrers combined, and still reaped a huge profit. The story was written by Mae herself and it's pretty weak - although the Hays office snapped its ...
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