What makes it different from others?

terrible... so disappointed.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Director: LOWELL SHERMAN. Screenplay: Mae West, Harvey Thew, John Bright. Based on the stage play Diamond Lil by Mae West. Photography: Charles Lang. Film editor: Alexander Hall. Art director: Robert Usher. Costumes designed by Edith Head. Songs by Ralph Rainger (music) and Leo Robin (lyrics). Choreography: Harold Hecht. Stills: Woody Bredell, Eugene Richee. Assistant director: James Dugan. Producer: William LeBaron. Runs only 66 minutes. NOTES: Nominated for Hollywood's most prestigious award for Best Film, "She Done Him Wrong" was passed over in favor of "Cavalcade".For an outlay of only $200,000, this movie earned a marvelous initial rentals gross of $2.2 million on the domestic market alone, placing it in sixth position for the year. (Another West vehicle, "I'm No Angel", was third).COMMENT: Surely the most famous invitation in the whole history of the movies is Mae West's "Come up and see me sometime!" (as it is usually slightly misquoted). I've heard this line quoted in other movies, I've seen it emblazoned across advertising bill-boards, I've read it again and again in books, and I've listened to its use time after time as a popular catch-cry. It's been repeated so often in fact in so many ways among so many people, it's become a household phrase, part of the language, an intrinsic euphemism in everyday speech. The only other words of screen dialogue that have come anywhere near it in popularity are Clint Eastwood's challenging "Go ahead, make my day!"As for the movie itself, it is every bit as delightful today as it was on first release, way back in 1933, just as the Great Depression was starting to bite!

. . . is, "To which HIM does the title refer?" It COULD be alluding to Chick, the guy Lou (the SHE of the title) is shamed into visiting at his cell in the state pen. Chick reminds Lou that he wound up in his current predicament due to his hopeless love for her, and her hopeless lusting after every diamond within reach. Her visit, in turn, lures Chick out of prison for a showdown with another of Lou's admirers, "Dan Flynn." If Errol was "in," Dan is definitely out by the third verse of "Frankie and Johnnie" (just one of several songs Mae West warbles as "Lou"). Then there's Lou's current Sugar Daddy, "Gus Jordan," stooping to all sorts of nefarious activities to keep Lou smothered in her preferred carbon rock. Off to the side is the Continental Kisser, "Serge Stanieff," who's willing to follow in Chick's footsteps by providing diamonds through larceny, with equally fatal results. Seeming to steer clear of Lou (in her role as "Diamond's Best Friend") is the Salvation Army's Captain Cummings, the only guy impervious to her charms. Or is he?

This movie is known for Mae West having said the (often-misquoted) line, "Why don't you come up sometime and see me? I'm home every evening." It even won the award known as "Outstanding Production" for 1933, and it supposedly prompted the Hays Commission to crack down on movie standards.Based on the stage play "Diamond Lil", West plays the girlfriend of a criminal bar owner who has bought her expensive diamonds, but she has cheated on him with a variety of other men. One of them is none other than an undercover policeman who is after said bar owner.The movie had good potential for comedy or drama, but realizes neither. It is instead dull, and Mae West proved to be a weak performer and an even worse singer. Presumably she was more famous for being rebellious than for her talent.

I had watched a couple of Mae West's movies before but I really decided to pay attention to this one since this was the one that made her a star. Working as a singer at a dance hall among many lowlifes, she's a hoot with her many double entendres lines that were still allowed in this pre-Code era picture. And seeing her with an up-and-comer named Cary Grant doubles the pleasure of watching this. Part of the time, it does threaten to get a little monotonous when the drama takes effect but where this goes was worth it and also, you get to hear Ms. West singing her heart out especially when she gets to the "Frankie and Johnny" number. So on that note, She Done Him Wrong is well worth a look.