The Heat's On

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. West did not return to the screen until 27 years later in Myra Breckinridge (1970), and chose to pursue a successful career in theater instead.

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."^[4] Leonard Maltin declared, "Befuddled Moore and colorful Cugat are fun, but there isn't enough of West in this film; when she's on-screen, she's just as funny as ever."^[5]

• The Heat's On at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
• The Heat's On at IMDb
• The-Heat-s-On at the TCM Movie Database (archived version)

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