Mae West: Joy in Joplin

MAE WEST fans in Joplin, Missouri will get a nice freebie on 15 May 2007. The Classic Cinema offering of "Hollywood at the Joplin Public Library" stars Mae West and W.C. Fields in their hilarious pairing - - "My Little Chickadee" [released on 15 March 1940] - - a comedy set in the Old West.
• • Movietime is 6 o'clock in the evening and this Mae West film is free.
• • In Missouri, the Joplin Public Library is on Main Street between 3rd & 4th Streets.
• • Here's the plot of "My Little Chickadee" - - Suspected of illicit relations with the Masked Bandit, Flower Belle Lee [Mae West] is run out of Little Bend. On the train she meets con man Cuthbert J. Twillie [W.C. Fields] and pretends to marry him for "respectability." Arriving in Greasewood City with his unkissed bride, Cuthbert J. Twillie is named sheriff by the town boss Jeff Badger, who has an ulterior motive. Both stars display their comic capital onscreen.
• • As the film ends, Cuthbert J. Twillie says to Flower Belle, "Why don't you come up and see me sometime?" It is, of course, a sly reference to Mae West's famous line in "She Done Him Wrong" [1933].
• • Come up and see Mae every day online: http://MaeWest.blogspot.com/
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