Go West, Young Man (1936)
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Synopsis of Go West, Young Man
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. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast of Go West, Young Man
- Mae West - Mavis Arden
- Randolph Scott - Bud Norton
- Alice Brady - Mrs. Struthers
- Elizabeth Patterson - Aunt Kate
- Maynard Holmes - Clyde
- G.P. Huntley - Embassy Officer
- Walter Walker - Andy Kelton
- Eddie Dunn
- Charles Irwin - Master of Ceremonies
- Si Jenks - Bumpkin
- Etienne Girardot - Prof. Rigby
- Warren William - Morgan
- Lyle Talbot - Francis X. Harrigan
- Isabel Jewell - Gladys
- Margaret Perry - Joyce
- Alice Ardell - Maid
- Xavier Cugat - Himself
- Nick Stewart [Nicodemus] - Nicodemus
- John Indrisano - Chauffeur
- Jack LaRue - Rico
- Dick Elliott - Reporter
- Director(s):
- Henry Hathaway
- Writer(s):
- Mae West
- Producer(s):
- Emanuel R. Cohen
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