Strike Me Pink (1936)

Milquetoast Eddie Pink (Eddie Cantor) takes a new job managing an amusement park run by the forceful Hattie (Helene Lowell), mother of Eddie's lunkheaded friend Butch (Gordon Jones). The local mob, led by crime boss Vance (Brian Donlevy), leans on Eddie to install some of their crooked slot machines in the park. Meanwhile, a love triangle develops between Eddie, Vance's torch-singer girlfriend, Joyce (Ethel Merman), and Hattie's lovestruck secretary, Claribel (Sally Eilers).