I'm No Angel

I'm No Angel is a 1933 American pre-Code black comedy film directed by Wesley Ruggles, and starring Mae West and Cary Grant.

Tira's fame takes her to New York City, where wealthy Kirk Lawrence is smitten, despite being engaged to snobbish socialite Alicia Hatton.

Unwilling to lose his prize act, he has Slick, recently released from prison, sneak into Tira's penthouse suite, where Jack finds him in his robe.

I'm No Angel was released immediately after She Done Him Wrong, when Mae West was one of the nation's biggest box office attractions and its most controversial star.

[5] During the difficult times of the Great Depression, many filmgoers responded enthusiastically to West, especially to her portrayal of a woman "from the wrong side of the tracks" achieving success both economically and socially.

She would frequently claim to various reporters through the years that she had spotted him as an unknown walking across a parking lot, asked who he was, and, finding that nobody knew, declared, "If he can talk, I'll use him in my next picture."

[citation needed] David Niven claims, in an interview on Parkinson, that the Hays Office changed the title from "It Ain't No Sin".

Screenshot of Mae West performing her burlesque dance in front of men
Lobby card for the film with Cary Grant and Mae West
Grant with West in I'm No Angel , their second film together.