In March 1933, she appeared in Strike Me Pink at the Majestic Theatre. She left the show after deciding to give Hollywood a try.
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Felix amassed sixteen Broadway credits in his career, with his last being Strike Me Pink in 1933. He died on March 16, 1961 in Los Angeles.
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In 1998, his short film series "Mr. Viril" (Angela & Viril, Alice & Viril) ran for almost six months on MTV, in addition to his video for Debbie Harry’s "Strike Me Pink". The former starred a young Angelina Jolie.
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Upon release, The Advocate selected "Strike Me Pink" as "the best cut by far" on Debravation, adding that it evokes Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time". Entertainment Weekly picked the song as one the album's "gems", while the Chicago Tribune highlighted it as an example of one of the album's "light and airy" tracks. Kris Needs of Record Collector felt "Strike Me Pink" was "haunting", with Dudley "lending her cinematic sheen" to the song. In the 1997 book The Trouser Press Guide to '90s Rock, author Ira A. Robbins described the song as "mushy elegance".
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"Strike Me Pink" is a 1993 song by the American singer Debbie Harry, released as the second single from her fourth solo album Debravation. It was written by Harry, Anne Dudley and Jonathan Bernstein, and produced by Dudley.
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New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, p. 18. When he was not performing on radio, he acted in a few comedy films during this time, including Strike Me Pink (1936), The Life of the Party (1937), and New Faces of 1937."The Last Laugh." San Francisco Chronicle, November 30, 1958, p. M5.
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Later that year, she returned to Broadway where she starred opposite Jimmy Durante in the musical revue Strike Me Pink. In 1934, she filmed Palooka and Strictly Dynamite (both also with Durante). That same year, Vélez was cast as "Slim Girl" in Laughing Boy with Ramón Novarro. The film was quietly released and largely ignored.
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Donlevy's break came in 1935, when he was cast in the Edward G. Robinson film Barbary Coast produced by Samuel Goldwyn. He was in Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935) then was second-billed in It Happened in Hollywood (1936). Donlevy had support parts in Goldwyn's Strike Me Pink (1936) and Paramount's 13 Hours by Air (1936).
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The first single from the album was the dance track "I Can See Clearly", which reached No. 23 in the UK. The second single, ballad "Strike Me Pink", had a controversial promotional video that was banned for being too disturbing – it featured a man in a glass tank filled with water, as Harry sits and watches him drown.
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Sheridan was known for her role in the 1930s westerns Hopalong Cassidy Returns and Hills of Old Wyoming. She starred opposite actor William Boyd in both pictures. Her other credits include Strike Me Pink, directed by Norman Taurog, and The Plainsman, directed by Cecil B. DeMille. She was twice married, first to Alexander Sloan Nibley and then to David Abraham Katcher.
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"Two Times Blue" was Harry's first solo single in fourteen years, the last one being "Strike Me Pink". Various official remixes were released to promote the single in the dance clubs and on dance radio. Lyrically, it bears with a woman who knows someone's in love with her and she threatens to leave, knowing it'll be "two times blue" if she does. The song failed to chart in any of the major international markets.
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The team split up in Hollywood when Fields was hired to work on a feature film with Eddie Cantor, Strike Me Pink (1936). In the ensuing years, Fields performed on stage, radio, and occasionally in movies. He worked on Eddie Cantor's radio show as a writer and actor, and then with Ben Blue, Rudy Vallee, Fred Allen, and Milton Berle. Fields appeared in small roles in 1930s film comedies and sometimes received screen credits as a writer and assistant director.
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"Strike Me Pink" peaked at #46 on the UK Singles Chart in September 1993, and #136 on the Australian ARIA singles chart. The accompanying promo video for the single was controversial because it depicted Harry watching a man drown in a tank. The video was banned from several music television channels. The single also marked Harry's final release with Chrysalis Records and the end of her long tenure with the company (she had originally signed with Chrysalis in the mid 1970s as part of Blondie).
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Angela Lansbury in a musical number staged by Alton in Till the Clouds Roll By (1946). Alton choreographed his first Hollywood film, Strike Me Pink, in 1936, and became one of the leading choreographers during the golden age of the Hollywood musical film, serving as dance director for MGM from 1944-1951. He continued to work on Broadway during this period and, in 1952 won a Tony Award for his revival of Pal Joey which he had originally choreographed in 1940, catapulting the young Gene Kelly to stardom.
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This was followed by "Strike Me Pink" in September. Controversy surrounded the latter track's promotional video, which featured a man drowning in a water tank, resulting in its being banned. US editions of the album feature two additional tracks recorded with prerecorded music by R.E.M.: "Tear Drops" and a cover of Skeeter Davis's 1961 hit "My Last Date (with You)". Also in 1993, Harry had a supporting role in a John Carpenter-directed segment of the anthology horror film Body Bags. In November 1993, Harry toured the UK with Stein, guitarist Peter Min, bassist Greta Brinkman, and drummer James Murphy.
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In addition to the title song, the score included "I Get a Kick Out of You", "You're the Top", and "Blow Gabriel Blow". It opened on November 21, 1934, at the Alvin Theatre, and the New York Post called Merman "vivacious and ingratiating in her comedy moments, and the embodiment of poise and technical adroitness" when singing "as only she knows how to do." Although Merman always had remained with a show until the end of its run, she left Anything Goes after eight months to appear with Eddie Cantor in the film Strike Me Pink. She was replaced by Benay Venuta, with whom she enjoyed a long but frequently tempestuous friendship.
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She went from fleshing-out keyboard parts to scoring the album's orchestrations (which were, according to Horn, her first-ever string arrangements) and also co-writing some of the songs. In 2019 she conducted the Southbank Sinfonia during Martin Fry's Lexicon of Love tour. Dudley's association with Horn led on to working with artists such as Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Seal, Marc Almond, Rod Stewart, Robbie Williams and, more recently, Siphiwo. She has co-written songs with Malcolm McLaren ("Buffalo Gals"), Cathy Dennis ("Too Many Walls"), and a 1930s-inspired song with Sting called "This Was Never Meant To Be". She produced the Tom Jones hit "You Can Leave Your Hat On" (1988) and a Debbie Harry single "Strike Me Pink" (1993). Dudley produced two tracks on the 2002 Opera Babes album Beyond Imagination (ranking No.1 on the UK classical charts for 11 weeks, and No.4 on the US billboard charts).
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