The Heat's On

The Heat's On (1943)

Turn on the Fun! A Heat Wave of Beautiful GIRLS! GAGS! RHYTHM! and ROMANCE!

Temperamental stage diva Fay Lawrence is reluctantly persuaded by a Broadway producer to star in his latest production.

Date of release
1943-12-02
TMDB
4.8 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 18m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Gregory Ratoff

Casting

Interesting facts

The Heat's On (1943) is a musical movie starring Mae West, William Gaxton, and Victor Moore, and released by Columbia Pictures.

Production background

Mae West was 49 at the time of the movie's production, her first film in three years, after an interlude starring on Broadway. Unlike her previous films, for which West wrote the screenplays and/or story material, West played no part in creating the story or dialogue of The Heat's On. Perhaps as a result, the movie was not a box office success.

In The Nation in 1943, critic James Agee wrote that the picture is a "stale-ale musical in which a lot of good people apathetically support the almost equally apathetic Mae West ... Mae West is mainly as good as ever, which is still plenty good enough for me; but evidently she and her colleagues feel that too few people agree with me." Leonard Maltin declared, "Befuddled Moore and colorful Cugat are fun, but there isn't enough of West in this fil…

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