My Little Chickadee

Cinematic Time Capsule 1940 Marathon - Film #49 ”They call me Flower Belle” “Flower Belle, what a euphonious appellation. Easy on the ears and a banquet for the eyes.” Mae West and W.C. Fields team up for a spoof their personas and the old west. Mae wrote the…

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Viewed on TCM My introduction to My Little Chickadee (1940) was a VHS copy I restocked every so often while working at my first movie retail store. Because of My Little Chickadee (1940), I had convinced myself that W.C. Fields and Mae West were a comedy duo, like Abbott &…

Nuno Costa

I got my movie a day in yesterday....but I lost the internet as we painted and rearranged our computer room....so review was delayed by one day. Why I watched this one? I watched my first W.C. Fields the other day and I was not too impressed...so I figured I would give…

UltimateMovieRankings

“Despite the presence of Mae West and W.C. Fields (it’s the only time they acted together), this satire of westerns never really gets off the ground. But the ground is such an honest mixture of dirt, manure, and corn that at times it is fairly aromatic.” - Pauline Kael

Will Sloan

[Mae West movies leaving the Criterion Channel at the end of the month 8/8] I'm far from what you would call a big fan of W.C. Fields, but watching him pair with West was pretty fun as power team-ups go. There are some real laughs here (I got more of a kick out of watching…

Jesse Snoddon

The plot in My Little Chickadee (1940) is simple. Send W.C. Fields & Mae West out west and give them as much screen time as possible to do what they do best. And that works for me! One liners deluxe!

PUNQ

A notorious flop, a star vehicle for two past their prime comedy stars who apparently hated each other in a spoof of Westerns. What's not to love? It's far from a disaster, probably West's best film since her two Pre-Code films. Her later work was hobbled by the Code and…

NotASexyVamp

*Trolley's 2017 Watchlist #1/50* 'I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it..' (Mae West as Flower Belle Lee) After an absence of two years Mae West returned to the screen and was paired with the Great Man, W.C. Fields, in what - on paper - promised to be…

trolleyfreak

My little chickadee successfully manages to deliver on just about everything you would expect from a pair of comedic legends going back and forth. The lightning pace, captivating Weston satire is cleverly thought out, while Mae West and W.C Fields' stunning dialog and…

Violet Kay