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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ClassyCo" data-source="post: 287395" data-attributes="member: 7">Speaking of THE HEAT'S ON: Mae hadn't the slightest interest in doing this movie. She hadn't been on the screen since MY LITTLE CHICKADEE in 1940, but here she was at 49 years old in 1943 being approached to headline what is basically a second-rate B-movie for Columbia Pictures. After declining the script on several different occasions, Mae finally agreed when Gregory Ratoff asked her to do the film as a personal favor. That's the only reason she agreed to do it. Although some of the story was tailored to fit West, she was not allowed to rewrite any of her dialogue as was the case for her earlier films. THE HEAT'S ON ended up failing at the box office. It isn't surprising considering the poor quality of the picture itself. Most people blame the film's failure on the fact that West didn't have her hand in writing the story or her dialogue. I've seen THE HEAT'S ON on TCM once, and I found it mildly amusing. It certainly isn't West's best film, but it is far from her worst (see MYRA BRECKINRIDGE and SEXTETTE as examples of bottom-of-the-barrel catastrophes). Despite that, I'd say Mae looked very good in the film itself. She seemed to have trimmed down and she looked a little younger than she did in MY LITTLE CHICKADEE from three years prior.  [ATTACH=full]29470[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]29471[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]29472[/ATTACH]</blockquote>