Every Day's a Holiday

My husband purchased the DVD of this movie, as well as an original movie poster for my birthday. I am a huge Mae West fan, and have been all my life I suppose. She was a wonderfully talented woman, strong minded and strong willed, and not ashamed of who she was. It was a wonderful movie, and I suggest it to all who are able to get the opportunity to watch it. It has a wonderful cast, wonderful writing, direction is done well, and Ms. West is at her finest. She is absolutely stunning to say the least. This is one of those movies that will give you a belly laugh. Hope you all go down and try to find some of her wonderful work. She was a great writer, and actress, and did so much for women writers in her day and today.

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Every Day's a Holiday

Compared to some of Mae West's earlier efforts, this isn't that great. It is a little short of the great one-liners -- and doesn't team her up with someone like W.C. Fields (who brings his own laughs). If you are in the mood for Mae, catch her earlier films ("She Done Him Wrong"), or "My Little Chickadee" with Fields.

Written by the awesome miss west herself. It's new year's eve, 1899. Peaches has been kicked out of the city, but she's been spotted back around town. The usual antics and adventures... she tricks funny man charles butterworth into breaking and entering, a little larceny. And returns in grand fanfare as madamoiselle fifi. Hijinx ensue. It's mae west! Fun and silliness. The plot doesn't really matter...we're all going to have fun. Someone must have the rights to this locked up tight.. they never show it on turner classics. Too bad. Directed by ed sutherland. He really was married to marjorie daw, just like the children's poem. One interesting note... in the film, they have the parties at rector's dinner club; and george rector actually did run numerous restaurants, including one on broadway! High rating, just for being mae west!

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.

Minor Mae West vehicle in which she joins forces with honest cop Edmund Lowe to prevent corrupt chief of police Lloyd Nolan from being elected mayor. Laughs are few, and Lowe and West fail to generate any sparks. Given the crimes she commits during the movie, it's odd that the Hays Office allowed her character to go unpunished. Only Nolan and Charles Winninger as a slightly dotty millionaire West latches on to make an impression.

This movie turned to be the last for Mae West at Paramount. Since this was made after the Production Code went to effect, there's very little of her saucy personality but that's compensated by the supporting players who provide their own laughs, like Walter Catlett, Charles Winninger, Charles Butterworth, and Lloyd Nolan. Oh, and, Louis Armstrong has a nice appearance playing his trumpet and singing his own number "Jubilee". I laughed all the way through and was surprised to learn this spelled the end of Ms. West's association with her home studio. Either the public was tired of her or studio executives were weary of dealing with her. But, anyway, on that note, I really enjoyed Every Day's a Holiday.

My husband purchased the DVD of this movie, as well as an original movie poster for my birthday. I am a huge Mae West fan, and have been all my life I suppose. She was a wonderfully talented woman, strong minded and strong willed, and not ashamed of who she was. It was a wonderful movie, and I suggest it to all who are able to get the opportunity to watch it. It has a wonderful cast, wonderful writing, direction is done well, and Ms. West is at her finest. She is absolutely stunning to say the least. This is one of those movies that will give you a belly laugh. Hope you all go down and try to find some of her wonderful work. She was a great writer, and actress, and did so much for women writers in her day and today.