Every Day's a Holiday (1937)

User Rating:

7.0/10   

Director:

A. Edward Sutherland

Writer:

Mae West (writer)

Release Date:

18 December 1937 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

Mlle. Fifi and her musketeers!

Plot Keywords:

Gay 90s

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar.

Cast

Mae West	...	Peaches O'Day
Edmund Lowe	...	Capt. McCarey
Charles Butterworth	...	Larmadou Graves
Charles Winninger	...	Van Reighle Van Pelter Van Doon
Walter Catlett	...	Nifty Bailey
Lloyd Nolan	...	John Quade
Louis Armstrong	...	Himself
George Rector	...	Himself
Herman Bing	...	Fritz Krausmeyer
Roger Imhof	...	Trigger Mike
Chester Conklin	...	Cabby
Lucien Prival	...	Danny the Dip
Adrian Morris	...	Henchman
Francis McDonald	...	Henchman
John Indrisano	...	Henchman

Runtime:

80 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Finland:K-16

Filming Locations:

General Service Studios - 1040 N. Las Palmas, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Emanuel Cohen Productions

Trivia:

One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Sex at 24 Frames Per Second (2003) (V)

Soundtrack:

Along the Broadway Trail

Lloyd Nolan is Funny

This movie is too disjointed to be good. In my view, the only thing going for it is Lloyd Nolan, the classic Hollywood MD. How many real doctors dreamed of imitating Lloyd Nolan's probity? So, it's a scream to see Nolan play a high-strung, wheeler-dealer, police chief.

True, Louis Armstrong does a cameo. He plays a trumpet, wears a marching costume and says nothing.

Mae West "wrote" the script and so there are basically no other women in the movie. Her double-entendres were too tired by the time this movie was made. But Mae West certainly knows how to wear a hat, and fill out her extravagant costumes.