Him Wrong, when Mae West was one of the nation's biggest box office attractions and its most controversial star. In the early 1930s, West's films were an important factor in saving Paramount Pictures from bankruptcy. During the difficult times of the Great Depression, many filmgoers responded enthusiastically to West, especially to her portrayal of a woman "from the wrong side of the tracks" achieving success both economically and socially. Cary Grant starred opposite her for the second and final time; their first film together had been She Done Him Wrong. Grant remained annoyed for decades that West often took credit for his career despite the fact that he had made major films before. The smash hit Blonde Venus, starring Marlene Dietrich and Cary Grant, predates She Done Him Wrong by a year even though Mae West always claimed to have discovered Grant for her film, amusingly elaborating that up until then he had only made "some tests with starlets." She would frequently claim to various reporters through the years that she spotted him as an unknown walking across a parking lot, asked who he was (nobody knew according to her story) and stated that, "If he can talk, I'll use him in my next picture." This tale remains routinely incorporated into most magazine articles about either West or Grant to this day. West's ribald satire outraged moralists. Film historians cite her as one of the factors for the strict Hollywood production code that soon followed. The Hays Office forced a few changes, including the title of the song "No One Does It Like a Dallas Man", altered to "No One Loves Me Like a Dallas Man". David Niven claims, in an interview on Parkinson, that the Hays Office changed the title from "It Ain't No Sin". Cast Mae West as Tira Cary Grant as Jack Clayton Gregory Ratoff as Benny Pinkowitz Edward Arnold as "Big Bill" Barton Ralf Harolde as "Slick" Wiley Kent Taylor as Kirk Lawrence Gertrude Michael as Alicia Hatton Russell Hopton as "Flea" Madigan Dorothy Peterson as Thelma William B. Davidson as Ernest Brown (as Wm. B. Davidson) Gertrude Howard as Beulah Thorndyke, Tira's main maid Libby Taylor as Libby, Tira's hairdressing maid Hattie McDaniel as Tira's manicurist (uncredited) Irving Pichel as Clayton's lawyer (uncredited) Walter Walker as the judge (uncredited) Reception The film was Paramount's biggest hit of the year. It was also Franklin Roosevelt's favourite