Every Day's a Holiday (1937 film)

Every Day's a Holiday
Every Day's a Holiday
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	A. Edward Sutherland
Screenplay by	Mae West
Produced by	Emanuel Cohen
Starring	Mae West; Edmund Lowe; Charles Butterworth; Charles Winninger; Walter Catlett; Lloyd Nolan
Cinematography	Karl Struss
Edited by	Ray Curtiss
Music by	George Stoll
Production; company	Major Pictures
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	December 18, 1937;
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Every Day's a Holiday is a 1937 American comedy film starring and co-written by Mae West, directed by A. Edward Sutherland, and released by Paramount Pictures. The film, released on December 18, 1937, also starred Edmund Lowe, Charles Winninger, and Charles Butterworth. This was West's last film under her Paramount contract, after which she went on to make My Little Chickadee (1940) for Universal Pictures and The Heat's On (1943) for Columbia Pictures.

Plot

In turn-of-the-century New York City, con artist Peaches O'Day (West) gets into trouble with the law for trying to sell the Brooklyn Bridge, but Jim McCarey (Lowe), a police captain, likes her enough that he lets her off with a promise from Peaches to leave town.^[1] She hatches a scheme instead with the wealthy Van Doon (Winninger) and butler Graves (Butterworth) to perform as a singer, calling herself Fifi, disguised in a black wig.

Quade (Lloyd Nolan), a chief of police with political ambitions, makes a pass at "Fifi" and is rejected. In anger, he orders the club closed. Capt. McCarey refuses and becomes Quade's rival, even persuaded to run against him for mayor.

Before giving a speech at Madison Square Garden during the campaign, McCarey is kidnapped. He escapes just in time and the publicity is helpful in his election victory. It turns out that Peaches planned the whole thing, resulting in a romantic relationship with the new mayor of New York.

Cast

Mae West as Peaches O'Day
Edmund Lowe as Capt. McCarey
Charles Butterworth as Larmadou Graves
Charles Winninger as Van Reighle Van Pelter Van Doon
Walter Catlett as Nifty Bailey
Lloyd Nolan as 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

Awards

The film was nominated an Academy Award for Best Art Direction by Wiard Ihnen.^[2]^[3]

References

^ Cohen, Gabriel (November 27, 2005). "For You, Half Price". New York Times. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
^ "NY Times: Every Day's a Holiday". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2012. Archived from the original on October 17, 2012. Retrieved December 9, 2008.
^ "The 10th Academy Awards (1938) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved May 22, 2019.

External links

Every Day's a Holiday at IMDb
Every Day's a Holiday at the TCM Movie Database

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[1] Cohen, Gabriel (November 27, 2005). "For You, Half Price". New York Times. Retrieved February 9, 2018.

[NY_Times-2] "NY Times: Every Day's a Holiday". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2012. Archived from the original on October 17, 2012. Retrieved December 9, 2008.

[Oscars1938-3] "The 10th Academy Awards (1938) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved May 22, 2019.

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