The Eddie Cantor Story

19531953
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1h 55m

IMDb RATING

5.6/10

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Eddie Cantor and his wife Ida arrive at Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, California, for a private screening of The Eddie Cantor Story . Just before the film rolls, Cantor whispers, "Ida, I'... Read allEddie Cantor and his wife Ida arrive at Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, California, for a private screening of The Eddie Cantor Story . Just before the film rolls, Cantor whispers, "Ida, I've never been so nervous in all my life." The story begins on New York's East Side in 1904... Read allEddie Cantor and his wife Ida arrive at Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, California, for a private screening of The Eddie Cantor Story . Just before the film rolls, Cantor whispers, "Ida, I've never been so nervous in all my life." The story begins on New York's East Side in 1904. Thirteen-year-old Eddie, eager to be accepted by neighborhood hoodlum Rocky Kramer, ente... Read all

IMDb RATING

5.6/10

196

YOUR RATING

Director
- Alfred E. Green
Writers
- Jerome Weidman(screen play by)
- Ted Sherdeman(screen play by)
- Sidney Skolsky(screen play by)
Stars

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Trivia
After attending the premiere of this film, Eddie Cantor said, "If that was my life, I didn't live."

Goofs
The film has someone calling him "Eddie" when he was 13. Cantor, whose real name was Israel Iskovitz, didn't change his name to Eddie Cantor until he was 21.

Quotes
Eddie Cantor: The stock market crashed. Everything is gone. Everything worked for, all of the sudden the bottom falls out of everything, down the drain. Just don't understand it, all these years of work, now everything's gone.

Connections
Referenced in Crazy Love (2007)

Soundtracks
If You Knew Susie
(uncredited)
Music by Joseph Meyer
Lyrics by Buddy G. DeSylva
Played during the opening credits and sung by Eddie in the Ziegfeld Follies

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Featured review

5/10

I really wanted to like this film, but........

The story of Eddie Cantor with plenty put in and taken out by 1950's Hollywood standards. Here Eddie grows up in a tough part of New York City, living with his grandmother. He catches a break when he wins a local amateur contest and gets a part with a group of young performers in a traveling show. When he grows out of the role, he marries his girlfriend Ida and struggles in getting new parts. Pal Jimmy Durante gives him a break in a show out in Los Angeles and leaves Ida pregnant with his first (of five) daughters. He comes back from LA and manages to get a part in a Ziegfeld show and his career takes off despite the loss of his grandmother and the strain it puts on his and Ida's marriage.

Plenty of liberties were taken with Cantor's life here, but the film is entertaining. Brasselle looks like Cantor but his performance isn't acting, its more on the line of an imitation. The fact that Cantor dubbed in all of the singing and the cameo by Eddie and Ida at the end of the movie are nice touches. It would have been nice to make more of Eddie's charitable work rather than condense it to 3 minutes at the end.

Like I said, a good film, but one I would have liked to enjoy more.

Rating 5 out of 10.

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