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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.

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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Green, Alfred E., 1889-1960, director.
Skolsky, Sidney, producer, screenwriter.
Weidman, Jerome, 1913-1998, screenwriter.
Sherdeman, Ted, screenwriter.
Brasselle, Keefe, performer.
Erskine, Marilyn, 1924- performer.
MacMahon, Aline, 1899-1991, performer.
Heindorf, Ray, 1908-1980, composer.
Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967), producer.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, producer.
Harvey Sheldon Jewish American Music Video Research Library (University of Pennsylvania)
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.

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