| Every Day's a Holiday | |
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 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 |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Every Day's a Holiday is a 1937 Americancomedy film starring and written byMae West, directed byA. Edward Sutherland, and released byParamount Pictures. The film, released on December 18, 1937, also starredEdmund Lowe,Charles Winninger, andCharles Butterworth. This was West's last film under her Paramount contract, after which she went on to makeMy Little Chickadee (1940) forUniversal Pictures andThe Heat's On (1943) forColumbia Pictures.
In turn-of-the-century New York City, con artist Peaches O'Day (West) gets into trouble with the law for trying to sell theBrooklyn 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 atMadison 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.
The film was nominated anAcademy Award forBest Art Direction byWiard Ihnen.[2][3]
The film contains the quote "You ought to get out of those wet clothes and into a dry martini." This is the earliest known version of the quote, which was later used as "Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?" inThe Major and the Minor (1942).[4]
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