The Eddie Cantor Story

1h 55m
MusicDrama
5

Film biography of entertainer Eddie Cantor, with Keefe Brasselle starring as the popular stage, radio and movie comic.

Cast

Keefe Brasselle
Eddie Cantor
Marilyn Erskine
Ida Tobias Cantor
Aline MacMahon
Grandma Esther
Arthur Franz
Harry Harris
Alex Gerry
David Tobias
Greta Granstedt
Rachel Tobias
Gerald Mohr
Rocky Kramer
William Forrest
Florenz Ziegfeld
Jackie Barnett
Jimmy Durante
Richard Monda
Eddie (age 13)
Marie Windsor
Cleo Abbott
Ann Doran
Lillian Edwards
Hal March
Gus Edwards
Douglas Evans
Leo Raymond
Susan Odin
Ida (age 11)
Will Rogers Jr.
Will Rogers
Owen Pritchard
Harry (as a boy)
James Flavin
Kelly
Barbara Pepper
Beer Garden Patron
Eddie Cantor
Himself (epilogue)
Ida Cantor
Herself (epilogue)
Bobby Jordan
Customer
Nedrick Young
Jack

Crew

Craig Rice
treatment
Alfred E. Green
Director
Ted Sherdeman
Writer
Jerome Weidman
Writer
Sidney Skolsky
Screenplay
William Wallace
Set Decoration
Pat Clark
Still Photographer

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