Rent My Little Chickadee (1940)
3.5 of 5 from 57 ratings
1h 20min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Having been revealed as the lover of the 'Masked Bandit', Flower Belle Lee (Mae West) seeks respectability in a bogus marriage to the seemingly wealthy Cuthbert J. Twillie (Fields). They check into a hotel where Flower Belle, insisting on separate rooms, discovers Twillie's bankroll to be worthless. She charms saloon-owner Jeff Badger (Joseph Calleia) who, to dispose of Twillie, has him appointed Sheriff. Flower Belle also attracts newspaperman Wayne Carter (Dick Foran), while continuing to see the Masked Bandit. Twillie masquerades as the bandit, is taken for the real thing and faces hanging.
- Actors:
- Mae West, W.C. Fields, Joseph Calleia, Dick Foran, Ruth Donnelly, Margaret Hamilton, Donald Meek, Fuzzy Knight, Willard Robertson, George Moran, Jackie Searl, Fay Adler, Gene Austin, Russell Hall, Otto Heimel, Mark Anthony, John Barton, Hank Bell, William 'Billy' Benedict, Georgie Billings
- Directors:
- Edward F. Cline
- Producers:
- Lester Cowan, Jack J. Gross
- Writers:
- Mae West, W.C. Fields
- Aka:
- The Lady and the Bandit
- Studio:
- Universal Pictures
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Comedy
- Collections:
- Paramount's Laughing Thirties, A Brief History of Film..., Top 10 Films About Trains: Westerns and War Movies, Top Films
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 13/12/2021
- Run Time:
- 84 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.37:1
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Mae West (1982): television movie biopic directed by Lee Philips, starring Ann Jillian as West, and co-starring James Brolin, Piper Laurie, and Roddy McDowall
- Mae West at UCLA (1971): archival audio recording of the great performer in conversation at the University of California, Los Angeles
- Appreciation of 'My Little Chickadee' with Dr Harriet Fields, granddaughter of W C Fields (2021)
- Appreciations by academic and film historian Lucy Bolton and critic and author Christina Newland of West's unique star persona (2021)
- Three Walter Lantz animations featuring caricatures of West and W C Fields: She Done Him Right (1933), The Merry Old Soul (1933), and Hollywood Bowl (1939)
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- Image Galleries
- World and UK premieres on Blu-ray
