{"id":16720,"date":"2025-11-27T21:25:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T05:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=16720"},"modified":"2025-11-27T21:25:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T05:25:17","slug":"walk-of-fame-movies-im-no-angel-and-mae-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/27\/walk-of-fame-movies-im-no-angel-and-mae-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk of Fame Movies: I&#8217;m No Angel and Mae West"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/im-no-angel-2.jpg\" alt=\"Mae West and Cary Grant in I'm No Angel.\" class=\"wp-image-16723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/im-no-angel-2.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/im-no-angel-2-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/im-no-angel-2-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/im-no-angel-1.jpg\" alt=\"Mae West and a Lion in I'm No Angel\" class=\"wp-image-16722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/im-no-angel-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/im-no-angel-1-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/im-no-angel-1-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/mae-west.jpg\" alt=\"Composite picture. On the left, a mockup of Mae West's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. On the right, a black and white portrait photo of Mae West.\" class=\"wp-image-16724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/mae-west.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/mae-west-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/mae-west-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Normally I write a little blurb about the movie and a second blurb about the featured Walk of Fame person, but I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s possible to separate these two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mae West (1560 Vine Street) isn&#8217;t my cup of tea, but she was an undeniable powerhouse. She was a woman in her forties (who didn&#8217;t try to hide her age) who wrote her own movies, and and didn&#8217;t shy away from sex right as the Hayes Code was cracking down on movie content.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part of the problem I had with this movie was I kept thinking &#8220;She&#8217;s just doing a Mae West impression.&#8221; She made her self into such an icon that watching her movies now feels like a parody, even though she&#8217;s the source. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&#8217;s fake poster is based completely on both movies having &#8220;No&#8221; in the title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/im-no-angel.jpg\" alt=\"A fake poster for I'm No Angel mimicking the poster for No Country For Old Men.\" class=\"wp-image-16721\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/im-no-angel.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/im-no-angel-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/im-no-angel-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/im-no-angel-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now I want a peeled grape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63,20,359],"tags":[350,357,78,10,358],"class_list":["post-16720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","category-photoshop","category-watch-of-fame","tag-fake-posters","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-photoshop","tag-walk-of-fame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16726,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16720\/revisions\/16726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}