The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown is a 1957 American romantic comedy film made by Russ-Field Productions and released by United Artists.

It was directed by Norman Taurog from a screenplay by Richard Alan Simmons, based on a 1956 novel of the same name by Sylvia Tate with jazz music composed and conducted by Billy May.

This gives a brainstorm to a couple of small-time crooks, Mike and Dandy, to kidnap Laurel by pretending to chauffeur the studio limousine to take her to that night’s movie premiere.

She scolds them for a stale idea that can backfire as blatant audience manipulation, causing the picture to flop and damaging her career.

While they take her to a Malibu beachfront hideout, agent Barney Baylies and studio chief Martin can't figure out why Laurel's a no-show at the premiere.

Gossip columnist Daisy Parker wants to know too, so the executives decide to avoid a scandal at all costs and not report Laurel missing to the police.

When Laurel reaches into Mike’s pocket at an unguarded moment, she finds that he is not carrying a gun but has been using a pipe to simulate one.

To avoid police involvement and publicity, Laurel takes off her platinum blonde wig and alters her appearance, pretending to be Mike's girl and baffling her kidnappers.

Laurel's assistant, Bertha, takes the ransom money in a suitcase to the airport, where Dandy works at the luggage check-in.

As reported by columnist Harrison Carroll" "...troubles have come up on the picture, Ray Danton playing opposite Jane, came down with a severe attack of laryngitis.

[6] About the movie, Russell wrote in her autobiography: "Norman [Taurog] saw the picture as strictly a Technicolor camp, while I had the mystery and romance of it in mind, in black and white.

That was one time the star should have had nothing to say, I guess, because Norman would have made a comedy in color with Dean Martin in his first semi-serious role, which he's done fabulously since, and the publicity alone would have pulled it off, or we should have had another director.

[7] Despite her honest assessment of the movie, Jane considered The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown, along with Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) as the two favorite films of her career .

[8] At the time of its release, The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown received mixed reviews, The Mirror News wrote "...a belabored attempt at comedy which never comes off.

While both Miss Russell and Mr. Wynn gallantly try for laughs, Meeker labors in a heavy-handed tough-guy fashion, completely at odds with the work of the others.

Examiner wrote that although "The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown is no classic among comedies...It's just a good natured romp, which treats nothing with reverence and it will do you nicely for a summer's day amusement."

What's more she makes you thoroughly enjoy it," but called Meeker the biggest weakness of the movie, ".. a fine stage actor though he is...he is too 'straight' in his work, and screen comedy appears not to be his forte.

"[12] Fuzzy Pink Nightgown bombed when it was released in the fall of 1957 and its failure marked the end of Russ-Field Productions.