West's next film was Columbia's "The Heat's On" (1943). She initially did not want to do the film, but after actor, director and friend Gregory Ratoff (producer Max Fabian in "All About Eve)" pleaded with her and claimed he would go bankrupt if she could not help, West relented as a personal favor. Censors by now, though, had curtailed the sexual burlesque of the West characterization. The studio had orders to raise the neck lines and clean up the double entendres. This was the only film for which West was virtually not allowed to write her own dialogue and, as a result, the film suffered.