Cast: Eddie Cantor

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Eddie Cantor. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Roman Scandals

1933 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tuttle

Cast Eddie Cantor · Ruth Etting · Gloria Stuart · Edward Arnold

Synopsis A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden Rome, where he gets mixed up with court intrigue and...

5.8

48 votes

5.8

48 votes

Hollywood Canteen

1944 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Delmer Daves

Cast John Garfield · Joan Leslie · Dane Clark · Robert Hutton

Synopsis Two soldiers on sick leave spend three nights at the Hollywood Canteen before going back to active duty. With a little friendly help from John Garfield, Slim gets to kiss Joan Leslie, who he has been dreaming about while in...

5.5

45 votes

5.5

45 votes

The Kid from Spain

1932 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Eddie Cantor · Lyda Roberti · Robert Young · Ruth Hall

Synopsis An innocent man accused of robbing banks masquerades as a bullfighter to escape the police.

5.2

39 votes

5.2

39 votes

Thank Your Lucky Stars

1943 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction David Butler

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Eddie Cantor · Bette Davis · Olivia de Havilland

Synopsis Eddie Cantor insists upon being chairman of the Cavalcade of Stars benefit show, in return for the use of his vocalist, Dinah Shore. Cantor disrupts the producers' plans with his own egocentric ideas. When they discover a talented bus driver...

5.1

48 votes

5.1

48 votes

Show Business

1944 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Edwin L. Marin

Cast Eddie Cantor · George Murphy · Joan Davis · Nancy Kelly

Synopsis A song-and-dance man and his comic partner undergo romantic ups and downs when they team up with a female duo and transition from burlesque to vaudeville.

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Palmy Days

1931 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction A. Edward Sutherland

Cast Eddie Cantor · Harry Woods · George Raft · Charles Middleton

Synopsis Musical comedy antics in an art deco bakery (motto: "Glorifying the American Doughnut") with Eddie Cantor as an assistant to a phoney psychic, who is mistaken for an efficiency expert and placed in charge. Complications ensue when the psychic and...

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Ali Baba Goes to Town

1937 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction David Butler

Cast Eddie Cantor · Tony Martin · Roland Young · June Lang

Synopsis A movie company is doing the Arabian Nights when a hobo enters their camp, falls asleep and dreams he's back in Baghdad as advisor to the Sultan. In a spoof of Rosevelt's New Deal, he organizes work programs, taxes the...

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The Story of Will Rogers

1952 · Movie · 109 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Will Rogers Jr. · Jane Wyman · Carl Benton Reid · Eve Miller

Synopsis Oklahoma lad grows up to become America's favorite humorist.

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Whoopee!

1930 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Thornton Freeland

Cast Eddie Cantor · Ethel Shutta · Paul Gregory · Eleanor Hunt

Synopsis Western sheriff Bob Wells is preparing to marry Sally Morgan; she loves part-Indian Wanenis, whose race is an obstacle. Sally flees the wedding with hypochondriac Henry Williams, who thinks he's just giving her a ride; but she left a note...

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Forty Little Mothers

1940 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Busby Berkeley

Cast Eddie Cantor · Judith Anderson · Ralph Morgan · Rita Johnson

Synopsis An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an abandoned child which he takes under his wing, despite the school's rules against teachers...

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Kid Millions

1934 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Roy Del Ruth

Cast Eddie Cantor · Ann Sothern · Ethel Merman · George Murphy

Synopsis A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy (Eddie Cantor) who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.

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Strike Me Pink

1936 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Norman Taurog

Cast Eddie Cantor · Ethel Merman · Sally Eilers · Harry Parke

Synopsis After helping a numbskull graduate college, a nebbish blunders into a job running an amusement park. There he wards off a variety of con artists and other miscreants while he pursues a nightclub singer.

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Special Delivery

1927 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

Cast Eddie Cantor · Jobyna Ralston · William Powell · Mabel Julienne Scott

Synopsis An inept Secret Service agent goes undercover as a mailman to catch a notorious criminal and impress his father, his boss.

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If You Knew Susie

1948 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Gordon Douglas

Cast Eddie Cantor · Joan Davis · Allyn Joslyn · Charles Dingle

Synopsis In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, except Sam and Susie Parker. One day, however, they find a letter written by George Washington that mentions the bravery of a Revolutionary War...

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Kid Boots

1926 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

Direction Frank Tuttle

Cast Eddie Cantor · Clara Bow · Billie Dove · Lawrence Gray

Synopsis A salesman is helped out of a jam with an angry customer by a wealthy playboy. In return, he agrees to help the playboy get a divorce from his wife, only to find himself falling for the girlfriend of the...

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Glorifying the American Girl

1929 · Movie · 95 min. · United States

Direction Millard Webb

Cast Mary Eaton · Eddie Cantor · Helen Morgan · Rudy Vallee

Synopsis The rise of a showgirl, Gloria Hughes, culminating in a Ziegfeld extravaganza "Glorifying the American Girl".

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The Eddie Cantor Story

1953 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction Alfred E. Green

Cast Keefe Brasselle · Marilyn Erskine · Aline MacMahon · Arthur Franz

Synopsis Eddie Cantor, beloved "banjo eyed" entertainer who conquered stage, films, radio, and television, is given the Hollywood biopic treatment in this largely uninvolving film. The storyline charts Cantor's professional progress, from his lower East Side boyhood to his ascendancy as...

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