I'm No Angel

Black text on white background with red and white checkered edge.

In the 1940s, carnivals gave out checkered pin-back buttons as game prizes and souvenirs, many of which had funny phrases like “You’re the One” and “Jeepers Creepers” and also included titles of famous songs of the day, like “It Ain’t Gonna Rain No ‘Mo,” sung by Wendell Hall in 1923. This “I’m No Angel” button may be a variation of this. It would certainly fit the carnival theme, seeing as Mae West starred in the movie I’m No Angel (1933) as a sharp and seductive circus performer for “Big Bill Barton’s Wonder Show” who falls in love with Jack Clayton, a character played by Cary Grant.