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Goin' to Town

Country: United States, Language: English, 71 mins

Original Title

How Am I Doin'?
  • Director: Alexander Hall
  • Writer: Marion Morgan, George B. Dowell, Mae West, Jack Wagner
  • Producer: William LeBaron

CGiii Comment

Bawdy saloon singer Cleo Borden contracts to marry a cattle rustler if he deeds her his oil-rich land. When he is suddenly killed, Cleo inherits his oilfields and fortune. But no amount of wealth can help her win the affections of gentlemanly land surveyor Edward Carrington. When he travels to Buenos Aires for race season, Cleo follows. She manages to increase her fortune when a horse she owns wins a race but remains shut out of Carrington’s world of moneyed aristocracy. She enters a marriage of convenience with the bankrupt son of a Lady. Her mother-in-law is determined to wreck the marriage and joins forces with a Russian gigolo to try to ruin Cleo’s reputation ... “I’m a good woman for a bad man.” Cleo’s rise in the social ranks is represented by her transformation from saloon to opera singer, as she strives to impress high society. An aria from Samson and Delilah is the perfect choice, showing off Mae West’s penchant to fully inhabit characters whose aim is to send even the strongest men into a swoon. But West indicates how unimpressed she herself was with the cultural capital that Cleo amasses, as she serves up a pure camp portrayal.


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Cast & Characters

Mae West (as Cleo Borden)
Paul Cavanagh (as Edward Carrington)
Gilbert Emery (as Winslow)
Marjorie Gateson (as Mrs. Crane Brittony)
Tito Coral (as Taho)
Ivan Lebedeff (as Ivan Valadov)
Fred Kohler (as Buck Gonzales)
Monroe Owsley (as Fletcher Colton)
Grant Withers (as Young Stud)
Luis Alberni (as Sr. Vitola)
Lucio Villegas (as Señor Ricardo Lopez)
Mona Rico (as Dolores Lopez)
Wade Boteler (as Ranch foreman)
Paul Harvey (as Donovan)
Joe Frye (as Laughing Eagle (jockey))
Vladimar Bykoff (as Tenor)
Rafael Alcayde (as Sr. Alvarez (uncredited))
Stanley Andrews (as Engineer (uncredited))
Zita Baca (as Dancer (uncredited))
Irving Bacon (as Cowboy (uncredited))
Robert Baikoff (as Lt. Mendoza (uncredited))
William Begg (as Man at Bar (uncredited))
Eugene Borden (as French Captain Dupont (uncredited))
Ralph Brooks (as Party Guest (uncredited))
James Carlisle (as Nightclub Patron (uncredited))