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Original release date: 1937
Video/DVD Release Date: 1/1/1998
UPC: 96898159234
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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 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