Come up and see me sometime.

The familiar catchphrase drops the opening question and moves sometime from before and see me to the end. The actual caption track of Lou’s first invitation preserves the film’s word order. She makes a shorter invitation again nearby, at the host’s offset 00:25:24; checking that later extract alone would misleadingly suggest that and see me is absent from the film. A PBS documentary clip, The Mae West Film that Helped Save Paramount Pictures, also transcribes archival promotion for I’m No Angel in which West herself uses the familiar come-up-and-see-me wording. Thus this entry calls the catchphrase a paraphrase of this particular film invitation, not a saying West never uttered. The first use of the familiar wording has not been established here.

Lady Lou compliments Captain Cummings on his uniform and invites him to come up and see her. She says she is home every evening; he replies that he is busy every evening, which she initially takes as an insult. The invitation is the fictional saloon singer’s teasing dialogue, not an address to the film’s audience.

Lou turns an apparently casual invitation to visit her into a confident sexual overture.

The familiar catchphrase is not the exact wording of this captioned scene. That does not mean West never used the familiar wording herself, or that every later occurrence of it is a false attribution.

• It’s not the men in your life that counts, it’s the life in your men.
• Yeah, but you can’t prove it.
• When I’m good, I’m very good. But when I’m bad, I’m better.
• Peel me a grape.
• When women go wrong, men go right after them.

• clip.cafe/she-done-him-wrong-1933/i-always-did-like-a-man-in-a-uniform
• springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=she-done-him-wrong
• pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/did-mae-west-really-say-come-up-and-see-me-sometime-the-story-of-one-of-hollywoods-most-famous-quotes/15123
• pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/paramount-pictures/14754
• en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mae_West

“Come up and see me sometime.” Attributed to Mae West. Not in these words. The idea is in She Done Him Wrong (1933), Lady Lou’s invitation after complimenting Captain Cummings’s uniform; extract begins at the host’s movie offset 00:24:54, said by Lady Lou. Quotogeny, https://quotogeny.com/q/come-up-and-see-me-sometime/ (checked 22 October 2026).

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