Mae West: Tira

Continuing our celebration of the early October 1933 debut of MAE WEST's box office blockbuster "I'm No Angel," here's a little of Mae's snappy dialogue.
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Tira, who performs in a circus sideshow, is famous for her hootchie-cootchie style — — a gal who discovered you don't have to have feet to dance. Tira goes to the resident gypsy to have her fortune told.
Rajah [played by Nigel de Brulier], the astrologer reads her horoscope.
Rajah: You were born in August.
Tira: Yeah, one of the hot months.
Rajah: It was on the 17th under the sign of Leo, the Lion.
Tira: Aw, King of the Beasts, huh.

Tira [pronounced TY-rah] is warned to be careful that night — — because she could be unlucky.
Tira tells him that she'd like to know her future (because she knows all about her past).
Rajah: Ah, you have a wonderful future. I see a man in your life.
Tira: What — — only one?
Rajah: But this is one very particular man. He is very wealthy, enormously wealthy.
Tira: ... What does he look like?
Rajah: I see he has brown eyes. In fact, I see two men... two different men. In the near future, I see a change. ... I see a change of position.
Tira: Sitting or reclining? . . .
Rajah: The horoscope — — keep this where you may consult it frequently.
Tira: All right, I'll take it to bed with me.
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— — excerpt from "I'm No Angel" written by Mae West — —
• • In New York City, where October 10th is celebrated as "National Angel Food Cake Day," and the Empire State Building is bathed in white lights for this sweet occasion, we ask our hometown girl, our Brooklyn bombshell to "Look homeward, Angel!" on National-I'm-No-Angel-Day.
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• • Photo: • • Mae West with Cary Grant • • 1933 • •
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