EDDIE CANTOR - ETHEL MERMAN "STRIKE ME PINK" 1936 MUSICAL MOVIE HERALD

Description

Original Herald from Uruguay and Argentina in South America. This kind of gorgeous heralds are quite scarce, they were printed by a local distributor (Max Glücksmann) just during a short period of time between the late 1920's and the late 1930's. Usually printed on both sides, in full color or in duotone inks featuring Art Deco style, they show great graphics from the films advertised. Most advertise a single feature movie, while a few examples advertise double movie programs.
Local Title:
LOS APUROS DE MR. PINK
Original Title:
STRIKE ME PINK
Year / Country:
1936 - USA
Company:
United Artists
Director:
Norman Taurog
Starring:
Eddie Cantor, Ethel Merman, Sally Eilers, William Frawley, Brian Donlevy, Jack La Rue, Edward Brophy.
Size (unfolded):
303 mm x 112 mm
Condition:
Excellent -
Ref #:
D-29
Herald advertises this film as shown at
CINE 21 DE SETIEMBRE
from Uruguay on
Thursday, July 23, 1936
Comments:
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's sets were designed by the art director Richard Day.
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.
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".
Shipping via FedEx for 1 up to 20 similar items: US$ 15 to USA, CANADA and Americas, US$ 20 to EUROPE and US$ 25 to the rest of the World