NO one has posted here.... - My Little Chickadee (1940) Discussion

[–] bradford-1 18 years ago

Well, there is a God. Just watched CHICKADEE last nite. Definitely deserves its title as a "one of the best bad movies ever made." The scene with the goat had me choking and falling off the couch.

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[–] snackadj 18 years ago

This movie sucks, plain and simple.

Ash: Gimme some sugar, baby.

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[–] kga58 17 years ago

I think the movie is great fun, but not as good as it could have and should have been given the talent involved. Still worth watching.

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[–] Dommy1952 17 years ago

Simply a great movie! If you are familiar with and enjoy the personas of Fields and West before seeing the movie, you will be entertained with the results and especially delighted with their interactions. Fields is able to con everyone in the movie except West, and Mae gets her way and her man as usual, yet enables Fields to triumph in the end. All in all this was a very satisfying comedy for me.

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[–] kga58 16 years ago

If they had filmed more scenes together it would have turned out to be one of the funniest movies of all time.

You're both so consumed with evil-so rotten! Your filthy souls are too evil for HELL ITSELF!

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[–] WarpedRecord 16 years ago

I agree. The scenes with W.C. Fields and Mae West together were comic gold, but they needed more together. It seems like Mae West is in this a lot more than W.C. Fields.

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[–] R_Kane (15828) 5 years ago

You got your doctorate where, exactly?

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[–] joehrobertsjr 16 years ago

This movie actually could have had three screen legends together in one film. Humphrey Bogart was originally slated to play the masked bandit character but Warner Brothers refused to loan him out for the film and Joseph Calleia was cast in the role instead.

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[–] choatelodge 15 years ago

It's interesting that people are saying the two screen giants should have done 'more' scenes together. They actually did virtually none of their scenes together.
From what I heard Fields and particularly West heartily disliked one another and in the train passenger coach scenes for instance, they didn't even film together but each spoke their relevant lines to a stand-in and their individual takes were spliced together later in a studio!

West is said to have referred to Fields as a drunken sot and on hearing this, Fields responded that Mae West reminded one of a 'plumber's idea of Cleopatra'.

I think W.C. Fields won the battle of one liners. ;)

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[–] modica 15 years ago

They wrote the screenplay together. How could they hate one another?

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[–] xdayton 15 years ago

They fought throughout the entire production, including during the writing of the screenplay. After they finished the movie, Mae was asked by a reporter about Fields. She said, "There's only one WC Fields. Thank God."

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[–] slokes 8 years ago

I suspect the stars did get along, if not too well. They were both used to being solo acts, and don't share the spotlight well, but if you look carefully you see they do share some scenes throughout the film. Where the film fails for me in terms of bringing them together is in creating a comic synthesis of their divergent styles, or absent that, any semblance of a real relationship.

Other than their first meeting on a train, which is quickly sidetracked by a too-long Indian attack, there isn't much here in terms of anything that memorable. Most of the funnier business comes when they are apart, like with her in the schoolroom and him in the bar.

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[–] HarlowMGM 15 years ago

They wrote the screenplay together. How could they hate one another?

Actually, I think that's the key to the "feud". Mae West wrote the screenplay but when W. C. Fields came on board he wanted a solo comic segment which he wrote - and equal screenplay writing credit. Mae resented that big time and was rather aloof. W. C. was actually a bit infatuated with Mae - his comments in his autobiography praised her as an actress and marvels that her screenwriting captures his character so well. The famous "plumber's idea of Cleopatra" remark may be from a moment of resentment when he realized she didn't quite have such a high opinion of him.

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[–] R_Kane (15828) 5 years ago

What the OP meant was “evidence that God doesn’t exist.” A proof is a test, which may not provide evidence that supports a theory. More important though, are these
facts: (1) W.C. Fields was an athiest. (2) W.C. Fields owned the largest private theological library in the world. (3) A friend came to
visit Fields on his death bed. He walked in to find Fields reading one of his many volumes. He exclaimed, “Uncle Bill [Fields was ‘Uncle Bill’ to EVERYONE in Hollywood]! I didn’t think you believed in that stuff.” “I don’t,” replied Uncle Bill. “I’m looking for loopholes.”

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