The Heat's On

1943
Approved
1h 19m

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When his biggest star joins a rival's show, a Broadway producer bluffs and schemes to get her back.When his biggest star joins a rival's show, a Broadway producer bluffs and schemes to get her back.When his biggest star joins a rival's show, a Broadway producer bluffs and schemes to get her back.

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5.0/10

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Trivia
This was Mae West's final film until Myra Breckinridge (1970) 27 years later.

Goofs
On a wall of a producer's office is a presumably old publicity shot of Fay wearing an elaborate headdress that she doesn't actually wear until she performs a musical number later in film for an entirely new production staged by rival producer.

Quotes
Fay Lawrence: [In the finale, Hello, Mi Amigo:] If you want things put in order, come and see me, south of the border.

Soundtracks
I'm Just a Stranger in Town
(1943)
Music by Jay Gorney
Lyrics by Henry Myers and Edward Eliscu
Copyright 1944 by Mills Music Inc.
Performed by Mae West (uncredited) in the show "Indiscretions"

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2/10

Say It Isn't So MAE!

What a mess! Hazel Scott was a revelation, but everything else just a clunker. Like others hoping to finally catch this sixty year old curio, I was dismayed to see how truly dull and silly it was/is. As a major fan of Mae West, I wondered, come on, how bad could it be? And hey, how come our leading lady only gets equal billing with ... such second level comics? How did she get mixed-up in this? What was disheartening was Mae herself. Sad, unfunny, tired --- could that be Mae West, trapped in round after round of awful lines? No wonder her flight from films after this mishap. Even her work, at age 75ish in the bizarre but unique "MyraB", was better. OK, we still have all those pre 1940 films to relish, all is forgiven Mae!