Every Day's a Holiday (1937)

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Paramount spent a record one million dollars on its 1937 Mae West vehicle Every Day's a Holiday. La West portrays a turn-of-century confidence trickster who poses as a famous French chanteuse to avoid arrest. In this guise, she manages to expose crooked police chief Lloyd Nolan and smooths the path… More Paramount spent a record one million dollars on its 1937 Mae West vehicle Every Day's a Holiday. La West portrays a turn-of-century confidence trickster who poses as a famous French chanteuse to avoid arrest. In this guise, she manages to expose crooked police chief Lloyd Nolan and smooths the path for reform mayoral candidate Edmund Lowe. A strong cast of supporting comedians, including Charles Winninger, Charles Butterworth and Walter Catlett, match Mae quip for quip. Elaborately produced and snappily directed by Eddie Sutherland, Every Day's a Holiday should have been the hit that Mae West needed to save her flagging film career. Unfortunately, her vogue had passed, plus she was under fire from America's bluenoses because of her previous "racy" vehicles and her recent "lewd and lascivious" appearance on Edgar Bergen's radio show. (When heard today, West's "Adam and Eve" sketch seems harmless enough, but remember the formidability of the Bible Belt back in 1938.) As a result, Every Day's a Holiday lost every penny it cost and then some -- and effectively ended Mae West's relationship with Paramount, the studio she had single-handedly rescued from bankruptcy with She Done Him Wrong back in 1933. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Rating, Runtime: Unrated, 1 hr. 19 min.
Directed By: A. Edward Sutherland
Written By: Mae West
Genres: Drama, Comedy

On DVD: Aug 4, 1993

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Cast

            Mae West as Peaches O'Day

            Edmund Lowe as Capt. Jim McCarey

            Charles Butterworth as Larmadou Graves

            Charles Winninger as Von Reigble Van Pelter Van Butterworth

            Walter Catlett as Nifty Bailey

            Lloyd Nolan as Honest John Quade

            Louis Armstrong as Himself

            George Rector as Himself

            Herman Bing as Fritz Krausmeyer

            Roger Imhof as Trigger Mike

            Chester Conklin as Cabby

            Lucien Prival as Danny the Dip

            Adrian Morris as Henchman

            Francis McDonald as Henchman

            John Indrisano as Henchman

            Johnny Arthur
            
            Irving Bacon as Quartet member

            Edgar Dearing as Cop at Store Window

            Dick Elliott as Bar Patron

            Otto H. Fries as Quartet member

            Weldon Heyburn
            
            John Miller as Quartet

            Ron Moody
            
            James C. Morton as Bartender

            Ferdinand Munier
            
            Herbert Rawlinson as New Year's Eve Party Guest

            William Austin as Extras
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