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Cary Grant as Captain Cummings leans on a table, speaking to Mae West as Lady Lou, who is seated in an ornate room in the film She Done Him Wrong.
She Done Him Wrong Cary Grant and Mae West in She Done Him Wrong (1933), directed by Lowell Sherman.

She Done Him Wrong

film by Sherman [1933]
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She Done Him Wrong, American romantic comedy film, released in 1933, that helped establish both Mae West and Cary Grant as major movie stars. The film is set in 1890s Manhattan and centres on Lady Lou (played by West), who works at a saloon and is the mistress of its crooked owner, Gus Jordan (Noah Beery, Sr.). As Gus’s criminal activities begin to fall under the suspicion of a candidate for sheriff (David Landau), Lou...

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