Strike Me Pink (film)

Strike Me Pink
	1936 Theatrical Poster
Directed by	Norman Taurog
Produced by	Samuel Goldwyn
Written by	Clarence Budington Kelland ; Walter DeLeon ; Francis Martin ; Frank Butler ; Philip Rapp
Cinematography	Merritt B. Gerstad
Edited by	Sherman Todd
Production; company	Samuel Goldwyn Productions
Distributed by	United Artists
Release date	January 24, 1936;
Running time	100 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$1.7 million[1][2]

Strike Me Pink is a 1936 American musical comedy film directed by Norman Taurog, starring Eddie Cantor and Ethel Merman, and produced by Samuel Goldwyn.

Cantor plays a nebbishy employee of an amusement park, forced to assert himself against a gang of slot-machine racketeers. The climax involves a wild chase over a roller coaster and in a hot-air balloon, filmed at The Pike in Long Beach, California.

The film was Eddie Cantor's sixth of six films for Goldwyn, all produced and released within seven years. The story derives from the novel Dreamland by the once-popular writer Clarence Budington Kelland, reworked as a 1933 stage musical comedy by Ray Henderson for Jimmy Durante.

Cast

Eddie Cantor as Eddie Pink
Ethel Merman as Joyce Lennox
Sally Eilers as Claribel Higg
Harry Parke as Parkyakarkus (as Parkyakarkus)
William Frawley as Mr. Copple
Helen Lowell as Hattie 'Ma' Carson (as Helene Lowell)
Gordon Jones as Butch Carson
Brian Donlevy as Vance
Jack La Rue as Mr. Thrust (as Jack LaRue)
Sunnie O'Dea as Sunnie
Dona Drake as Mademoiselle Fifi (as Rita Rio)
Edward Brophy as Killer
Sidney Fields as Chorley Lennox
Don Brodie as Mr. Marsh
Charles McAvoy as Mr. Selby
the Goldwyn Girls as Themselves

Critical reception

Writing for The Spectator in 1936, Graham Greene gave the film a good review, pointing out that in addition to the comedic value, the actorly qualities of Eddie Cantor made the film a true success. Although Greene suggests that Cantor is not perhaps quite at the level of Charlie Chaplin, he describes the scene between Pink and the gunman is "superb", and suggests that "one will have to wait a very long time for any film funnier than this one".[3]

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References

"WHICH CINEMA FILMS HAVE EARNED THE MOST MONEY SINCE 1914?". The Argus. Melbourne. 4 March 1944. p. 3 Supplement: The Argus Weekend magazine. Retrieved 6 August 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
Quigley Publishing Company "The All Time Best Sellers", International Motion Picture Almanac 1937-38 (1938) p 942 accessed 19 April 2014
Greene, Graham (20 March 1936). "The Milky Way/Strike Me Pink/Night Mail/Crime and Punishment". The Spectator. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. pp. 59–60. ISBN 0192812866.)

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[1] "WHICH CINEMA FILMS HAVE EARNED THE MOST MONEY SINCE 1914?". The Argus. Melbourne. 4 March 1944. p. 3 Supplement: The Argus Weekend magazine. Retrieved 6 August 2012 – via National Library of Australia.

[quig-2] Quigley Publishing Company "The All Time Best Sellers", International Motion Picture Almanac 1937-38 (1938) p 942 accessed 19 April 2014

[3] Greene, Graham (20 March 1936). "The Milky Way/Strike Me Pink/Night Mail/Crime and Punishment". The Spectator. (reprinted in: Taylor, John Russell, ed. (1980). The Pleasure Dome. pp. 59–60. ISBN 0192812866.)