Likewise, come up and see me sometime was used as an advertising slogan for I’m No Angel-for example, the following advertisement appeared in The Morning Chronicle (Manhattan, Kansas) of Friday 3 rd November 1933:Ĭome Up and See Me Sometime!-Hundreds Have! The misquotation was used in this advertisement for She Done Him Wrong, published in The Evening Star (Washington, D.C.) of Thursday 3 rd August 1933-the Metropolitan cinema was announcing that it would show She Done Him Wrong again as of the following day: Al Jolson made “Sonny boy” what it is today.
Robert Armstrong and Jimmy Gleason offered “Is zat so?” and “Oh, yeah?” Jimmy Durante’s “Am I mortified?” is a national phrase. Edmund Lowe and Victor McLaglen made “Sez you!” and “Sez me!” popular. Since the “Came the dawn” days of the silent pictures, Hollywood has been contributing to slangology. “You can be had,” and “ Come up and see me sometime,” are national bywords as the result of “She Done Him Wrong.” Mae West’s Slangology.-Mae West needed just one picture to add to the collection of slang phrases that the “ talkies” have contributed to the English language. In any case, the misquotation come up and see me sometime immediately became an idiomatic expression-as evidenced by the following from Screen Bulletins, published in The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, Texas) of Friday 12 th May 1933: It’s not “ Come up some time ’n see me,” but “ Come up and see me some time.” She settled the frequently heard controversy about the famous “Come up and see me” line. Murphy, published in The Minneapolis Star (Minneapolis, Minnesota) of Friday 1 st April 1938: Incidentally, as early as the 1930s, the exact form of the phrase had become a matter of debate-the following is from Mae West Comes to Town, by Robert E. And don’t forget – come up and see me sometime.
I want to thank you for those beautiful flowers. You were the one with the nice kind face. However, the phrase come up and see me sometime did appear in I’m No Angel, a film released later in 1933, also starring Mae West and Cary Grant-this is the passage in which Tira, interpreted by Mae West, uses the phrase: I’ll tell your fortune… Ah, you can be had. Any time you have a moment to spare, I’d be glad to have you drop in. You see, we’re holding meetings in Jacobson’s Hall every evening. – Lady Lou: Busy? Say, what are you trying to do, insult me? – Captain Cummings: Yeah but, I’m busy every evening. Why don’t you come up sometime and see me? I’m home every evening. – Lady Lou: You know what, I always did like a man in a uniform. This is the dialogue in which occurs the misquoted line, which is Why don’t you come up sometime and see me?:
In She Done Him Wrong, set in New York City in the 1890s, Mae West interprets Lady Lou, a barroom singer, and Cary Grant plays the role of Captain Cummings, head of the temperance league (in reality an undercover Federal agent). This film was adapted from Diamond Lil (1928), a play by Mae West. actor Cary Grant (Alexander Archibald Leach – 1904-86). actress and playwright Mary Jane ‘Mae’ West (1892-1980) and the British-born U.S. film released in February 1933, starring the U.S. The phrase come up and see me sometime is a misquotation from She Done Him Wrong, a U.S. I found the V-8 model had come-up-and-see-me-sometime curb appeal, and it was rompin’ stompin’ good fun to drive - until the low-fuel light told me this shapely Swede had the appetite of a trucker. Similarly, in an article by Jerry Garrett published in the Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, Wisconsin) of Sunday 29 th April 2007, the phrase appeared in an extended metaphor likening the 2007 Volvo S80, powered by a V-8 engine, to a Swedish woman: In an interview, Cattrall is jolly and effervescent, occasionally letting loose with a Samantha “come-up-and-see-me-sometime” inflection.
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television series Sex and the City (1998-2004): The American-English phrase come up and see me sometime is used as an invitation to sexual dalliance-synonym: come up and see my etchings.įor example, in The Paducah Sun (Paducah, Kentucky) of Friday 18 th March 2005, John Wollman Rusoff used the phrase when writing about the Canadian actress Kim Cattrall (born 1956), who interpreted Samantha Jones in the U.S.
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