Strike Me Pink (film)
| Strike Me Pink | |
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1936 Theatrical Poster | |
| Directed by | Norman Taurog |
| Written by | Clarence Budington Kelland Walter DeLeon Francis Martin Frank Butler Philip Rapp |
| Produced by | Samuel Goldwyn |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Merritt B. Gerstad |
| Edited by | Sherman Todd |
| Music by | Harold Arlen Alfred Newman |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
Release date |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $1.7 million |
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.