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… 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
- Directed By
- A. Edward Sutherland
- Written By
- Mae West
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
Unrated,
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Cast
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Mae West
as Peaches O'Day
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Edmund Lowe
as Capt. Jim McCarey
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Charles Butterworth
as Larmadou Graves
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Charles Winninger
as Von Reigble Van Pelter Van Butterworth
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Walter Catlett
as Nifty Bailey
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Lloyd Nolan
as Honest John Quade
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Louis Armstrong
as Himself
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George Rector
as Himself
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Herman Bing
as Fritz Krausmeyer
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Roger Imhof
as Trigger Mike
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Chester Conklin
as Cabby
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Lucien Prival
as Danny the Dip
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Adrian Morris
as Henchman
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Francis McDonald
as Henchman
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John Indrisano
as Henchman
- Johnny Arthur
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Irving Bacon
as Quartet member
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Edgar Dearing
as Cop at Store Window
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Dick Elliott
as Bar Patron
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Otto H. Fries
as Quartet member
- Weldon Heyburn
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John Miller
as Quartet
- Ron Moody
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James C. Morton
as Bartender
- Ferdinand Munier
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Herbert Rawlinson
as New Year's Eve Party Guest
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William Austin
as Extras
