Every Day's a Holiday (1937 film)
- Mae West: Peaches O'Day
- Edmund Lowe: Capt. McCarey
- Charles Butterworth: Larmadou Graves
- Charles Winninger: Reighle Van Van Van Pelter Doon
- Walter Catlett: Nifty Bailey
- Lloyd Nolan: John Quade
- Herman Bing: Fritz Kraus Meyer
- Louis Armstrong: Himself
- George Rector: Himself
Every Day 's a Holiday is an American feature film comedy from 1937. It was by Emanuel Cohen, directed by A. Edward Sutherland on Major Pictures Corp.. and Paramount Pictures produced. The film was shot in black and white. The premiere took place in the U.S. on 18 December 1937.
Action
The film plot is based in New York, the turn of the century. Peaches O'Day is a notorious con artist. The policeman Captain Jim McCarey is in love with her, so he asks them to leave the city, so he is not forced to arrest her. Peach, however, occurs in a stage show, which is organized by Van Reighle Van Pelter Van Doon, whose butler Larmadou Graves and her manager Nifty Bailey. For this purpose, they used a false identity by posing as a French artist named Fifi. The police chief John Quade is carefully get down on it, and tried them. Peaches goes, however, rejects him, whereupon Quade McCarey orders to close the stage show on flimsy reasons. McCarey refuses and is suspended. Peaches manages to steal their investigation files as well as the criminal of Quades cronies Quades office. She encourages the suspended McCearey against Quade to run for mayor. Just before a major speech McCarey is kidnapped by Quades cronies. Peaches leads the campaign for him on. McCarey can escape from his captors and will appear in time for his speech at Madison Square Garden. McCarey wins the election and gets married Peaches. In the end, it becomes clear that it was an ingenious plan of Peaches, had bribed the Quades cronies and made to kidnap McCarey, to turn public opinion against Quade.
Background
Every Day 's a Holiday was the last film of Mae West at Paramount.
Awards
Wiard you in 1938 was nominated for Every Day 's a Holiday for an Oscar in the category Best Art Direction.