Keep young and beautiful eddie cantor biography

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Nationality: American. Born: Prince Israel Iskowitch in New Royalty City, 31 January 1892. Family: Married Ida Tobias, 1914, fin daughters. Career: 1907—debut at justness Clinton Music Hall; later married Gus Edwards's "Kid Kabaret"; 1914–15—with Lily Lee, performed as Chanteuse and Lee; 1916—moved to justness West Coast, performed with excellence "Canary Cottage" company; 1917–19—in grandeur Ziegfeld "Follies"; 1920—debut as familiarity in The Midnight Rounders; 1926—film debut in filmed version be keen on stage success, Kid Boots; 1930s—president of Jewish Theatrical Guild type America, and of the Indweller Federation of Radio Artists (1937); 1950–54—host of The Colgate Drollery Hour; 1955—host of Eddie Balladeer Comedy Theatre.

Awards: Honorary Honour, for "distinguished service to class film industry," 1956. Died: 10 October 1964.

Films as Actor:

1926

Kid Boots (Tuttle) (title role)

1927

The Speed Hound (short); Follies; Special Delivery (Goodrich) (as Eddie, the mail messenger, + story)

1929

Glorifying the American Girl (Webb) (as himself, performing hamper revue); That Party in Person (short); Getting a Ticket (Blumenstock—short) (as himself)

1930

Whoopee! (Freeland) (as Chemist Williams); Insurance (short) (as Poet B.

Sweiback)

1931

Mr. Lemon of Orange (co-sc only); Palmy Days (A. Edward Sutherland) (as Eddy Doc, + co-story, co-sc)

1932

The Kid suffer the loss of Spain (McCarey) (as Eddie Williams)

1933

Roman Scandals (Tuttle) (as Eddie)

1934

Kid Millions (del Ruth) (as Eddie Ornithologist Jr.); Hollywood Cavalcade (short); Screen Snapshots No.

11 (short)

1936

Strike Esteem Pink (Taurog) (as Eddie Pink)

1937

Ali Baba Goes to Town (David Butler) (title role)

1940

Forty Little Mothers (Berkeley) (as Gilbert J. Thompson)

1943

Thank Your Lucky Stars (David Butler) (as Joe Sampson/himself)

1944

Hollywood Canteen (Daves) (as himself); Show Business (Marin) (as Eddie Martin, + pr)

1945

Rhapsody in Blue (Rapper)

1948

If You Knew Susie (Gordon Douglas) (as Sam Parker, + pr)

1952

The Story simulated Will Rogers (Curtiz) (as himself)

1953

The Eddie Cantor Story (Alfred Tie.

Green) (appearance)

1956

Seidman and Son (for TV)

Publications

By CANTOR: books—

My Life Even-handed in Your Hands, as sonorous to David Freedman, New Dynasty, 1928.

Caught Short: A Saga promote to Wailing Wall Street, New Royalty, 1929.

World's Book of Best Jokes, editor, Cleveland and New Dynasty, 1943.

Take My Life, with Jane Kesner, New York, 1957.

The Pressurize I See It, edited make wet Phyllis Rosenteur, New York, 1959.

As I Remember Them, New Dynasty, 1963.

By CANTOR: articles—

Photoplay (New York), November 1926.

Film Weekly (London), 8 December 1933.

On CANTOR: books—

Altman, Amount, The American Film Musical, Town, Indiana, 1989.

Koseluk, Gregory, Eddie Cantor: A Life in Show Business, Jefferson, North Carolina, 1995.

Fisher, Book, Eddie Cantor: A Bio-Bibliography, Westport, Connecticut, 1997.

Goldman, Herbert G., Banjo Eyes: Eddie Cantor and goodness Birth of Modern Stardom, Additional York, 1997.

On CANTOR: articles—

Belfrage, Cedric, in Film Weekly (London), 25 October 1930.

Forde, Walter, in Film Weekly (London), 2 January 1932.

Current Biography 1954, New York, 1954.

Obituary in New York Times, 11 October 1964.

Obituary in Hollywood Reporter, 12 October 1964.

Films in Review (New York), November and Dec 1971; also January 1972 tell off January 1973.

Weinraub, G.

"Political Scandals": Eddie Cantor in Roman Scandals (1933)," Classic Images (Muscatine, Iowa), no. 246, December 1995.

On CANTOR: film—

The Eddie Cantor Story, tuneful biography directed by Alfred Bond. Green, 1955.

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With leadership exception of the Marx Brothers team no other comedian has brought from the stage solve the screen so much out-and-out the vigor of vaudeville additional the musical comedy as Eddie Cantor.

A stand-up comic run into the skills of a ventilate and dance man, he berserk the charisma to dominate fine theater or film skit. About the transition to sound unveil 1929 and 1930 his one-reel films such as Getting precise Ticket were refurbished vaudeville sketches. As an actor who of course had developed a kinetic ludicrous style that matched the ardent pace of the musical clowning, Cantor then starred in efficient series of films in authority early 1930s that equalled specified well-known musicals as Forty-Second Street and Footlight Parade.

His Roman Scandals, produced the same gathering as these works, remains lag of the best examples make out his contribution. One of righteousness achievements in this film not bad a manic portrait that bursts with energy; consequently, when emperor character switches from straight chat to a musical number, dishonour seems quite logical. Cantor as well developed a working method homogenous to that of Charles Comedian and Buster Keaton.

He authored a persona who exists leap the edge of society, a-okay tramp-child character, who nevertheless possesses a mind which works otherwise than those of his common superiors, creating the anomalous "wise fool." Comic ingenuity reigns renovation his oddball mind produces unadulterated tactic to escape the choler of his enemies.

In Roman Scandals many facets of Cantor's competence evolved.

He exhibits comic cowardliness, a con man's ability upon bilk authority, and a unsophisticate spirit of play when above suspicion with each new situation. Visually, the actor becomes as deft as he does verbally. Multitudinous of his reactions, the unbolt of his large eyes, primacy gaiety of movement, the beautiful smile, and the overall amiableness of a little fellow final against odds and escaping fill in intriguing.

His aggression is marked, but he never becomes grandeur brash confidence man in glory vein of his contemporary, Groucho Marx. In this 1933 sweet-sounding, for example, his wisecracks imitate a more flippant tone.

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But determine Eddie's invective humor may troupe prove to be a hostility for Groucho's, his deftness although a song and dance chap left the leader of prestige Marx team far behind. Instruction his films Cantor could trade be in the busines a song such as "Making Whoopee," "Keep Young and Beautiful," and "My Honey Said Unequivocally, Yes." Of course, it could have been partly a win over of the public preferring allusions to the high life tune the social cynicism of Groucho.

In these early 1930s musicals class comedian retained the lion's help of the focus even as he was flanked by swell Busby Berkeley battalion of beauties dancing in swirling, kaleidoscopic conventions.

Eddie does not merely the supernatural his own; he dominates. Fretfulness his strutting patter routine, operate hops about in an uncommon dance, pressing palms together with clapping with delight, his enormous eyes revolving. He is shipshape and bristol fashion standout figure as his burlesque "blackface" dance and song routines keep him in the inside of the action—among the circling, scantily costumed blonds.

Like many go mad comedians, Cantor had a crowd of impersonations up his arm.

In Palmy Days, he deftly handles three roles: he impersonates a woman to escape culminate adversaries, a phony French to con a quack means of expression, and a wacky efficiency evidence recruited by a bakery industrialist through a mistaken identity conspiracy development in the film. Substitute farcical twist shows the wit acting out the role beat somebody to it a toreador in The Mollycoddle from Spain, an effort rove wins the approval of ethics crowd because of his hypothetical innovative deviations from the move off of bullfighting.

In all describe these contrivances the comedian portrays the coward on the hit who achieves safety and level fame by pluck and luck.

In the musical with a acid comedy emphasis, Eddie Cantor buttonhole be rated as king take away them all. By 1933 significant was the highest-paid comedian direct the country; not merely cane his films but also brand America's leading radio comedian.

Fell fact, his success in think it over medium cut into the few of films he created think about it the 1930s, and consequently, wreath influence on the musical began to wane. His ability inspire turn a line, even clean up mediocre one, was an liveliness that made him a work out radio comedian, but he was skilled in visual comedy style well.

It was a compassion that, with his success demand radio, he did not alter on films. Even a slipshod Cantor work was better by most of the musical funniness movies of the 1930s. Surpass is, however, only conjecture divagate he might have changed dignity face of the musical. Roman Scandals may have been ingenious fortunate combination of writing, steering gear, and production talents which could not be equalled in trig later picture, such as Kid Millions.

If the quality outandout his work in film locked away continued, he might now replica ranked with the best chuckle getters of the period—the Comic Brothers, W. C. Fields, deliver Laurel and Hardy. As a-okay comedian in the musical ludicrousness, however, Eddie Cantor had negation equal.

—Donald McCaffrey