Be Your Perfectly Imperfect Self
“What’s the sense of trying to be something that you’re not?” Mae West , Night After Night In the 1932 film Night After Night , George Raft plays the role of a “mug” named Joe, who runs a speakeasy and who’s decided that he’s not good enough being who he is. Every night his establishment is filled with “swells” or rich people of “proper breeding.” And Joe decides he wants to be a “swell.” So Joe hires a tutor, a professor, to come in everyday and teach him how to be a classy gentleman. We then learn Joe’s real motivation for wanting to remake himself into something that he’s not: Turns out he’s head over heels for a high class “dame” named Jerry Healy. As the movie progresses, Joe learns that his high class “dame” isn’t any classier inside than he is—or for that matter—any of the other “dames” that he’s ever dated, including Mae West’s character, Maudie. This realization brings him back to understanding that he is—and always has been—good enough just the way he is. ...