2 options
The Eddie Cantor story / Warner Bros. Pictures ; screen play by Jerome Wiedman, Ted Sherdeman and Sidney Skolsky ; produced by Sidney Skolsky ; directed by Alfred E. Green.
LIBRA DVD Judaica 64
Available from offsite location
LIBRA DVD Judaica 65
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cantor, Eddie, 1892-1964.
- Cantor, Eddie.
- Entertainers--United States--Biography.
- Entertainers.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Musicals.
- Feature films.
- Biographical films.
- Video recordings.
- Penn Provenance:
- Sheldon, Harvey (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [between 2000 and 2009]
- System Details:
- DVD-R.
- digital
- optical
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- This musical biography of Eddie Cantor traces the showman's rise from singing waiter to vaudeville sensation and Ziegfeld Follies headliner, from pioneering radio days to his lifelong devotion to humanitarian caused. Cantor himself sings on the soundtrack, performing Makin' Whoopee, If You Knew Susie and other signature tunes.
- Participant:
- Keefe Brasselle, Marilyn Erskine, Aline MacMahon, Arthur Franz, Alex Gerry, Greta Granstedt, Gerald Mohr, William Forrest, Jackie Barnett and Will Rogers, Jr.
- Credits:
- Musical numbers staged and directed by Leroy Prinz ; musical direction by Ray Heindorf; photography, Edwin DuPar; editor, William Ziegler.
- Notes:
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1953.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries by Harvey Sheldon.
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.