Eddie Cantor

Comedian

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Also Known As

Edward Israel Iskowitz

Birth Place

New York City, New York, USA

Born

January 31, 1892

Died

October 10, 1964

Cause of Death

Heart Attack

Biography

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Energetic vaudeville performer with famous rolling eyes, in Hollywood from 1926. Cantor was extremely popular in the 1930s on the radio, and in mostly routine movies that showcased his inimitable, infectious style of song, dance and (sometimes risque) comedy. He has a small part in the meager 1957 biopic "The Eddie Cantor Story," starring Keefe Brasselle....

Filmography

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Entertaining the Troops (1989)

The Eddie Cantor Story (1954)

The Story of Will Rogers (1952)

If You Knew Susie (1948)

Show Business (1944)

Hollywood Canteen (1944)

Photos & Videos

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Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Blues In The Night, John Garfield

Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943) -- (Movie Clip) They're Either Too Young Or Too Old

Family & Companions

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Ida Cantor

Wife

Married June 1915 until her death in 1962.

Bibliography

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"Eddie Cantor: A Bio-Bibliography"

James Fisher, Greenwood Press (1997)

Biography

Energetic vaudeville performer with famous rolling eyes, in Hollywood from 1926. Cantor was extremely popular in the 1930s on the radio, and in mostly routine movies that showcased his inimitable, infectious style of song, dance and (sometimes risque) comedy. He has a small part in the meager 1957 biopic "The Eddie Cantor Story," starring Keefe Brasselle.

Filmography

Cast (Feature Film)

Entertaining the Troops (1989)

The Eddie Cantor Story (1954)

The Story of Will Rogers (1952)

If You Knew Susie (1948)

Show Business (1944)

Hollywood Canteen (1944)

Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)

Himself/Joe Simpson

Forty Little Mothers (1940)

Gilbert Jordan Thompson

Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937)

Ali Baba [/Aloysius Babson/Himself]

Strike Me Pink (1936)

Kid Millions (1934)

Edward Grant Wilson, Jr.

Roman Scandals (1933)

Eddie, also known as Oedipus

The Kid from Spain (1932)

Eddie Williams, alias Don Sebastian II

Palmy Days (1931)

Whoopee! (1930)

Glorifying the American Girl (1929)

Special Delivery (1927)

Eddie, The Mail Carrier

Kid Boots (1926)

A Few Moments with Eddie Cantor (1923)

Writer (Feature Film)

Mr. Lemon of Orange (1931)

Palmy Days (1931)

Special Delivery (1927)

Producer (Feature Film)

If You Knew Susie (1948)

Show Business (1944)

Music (Feature Film)

Cinderella Man (2005)

Space Jam (1996)

Curly Sue (1991)

Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)

The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War (1984)

Song Performer ("If They Feel Like A War Let Them Keep It Over There")

Palmy Days (1931)

Misc. Crew (Feature Film)

Entertaining the Troops (1989)

Cast (Special)

The Mort Sahl Special (1960)

George Burns in the Big Time (1959)

Cast (Short)

The Friendship Train (1947)

Life Events

1906

Became professional entertainer

1926

Film acting debut

Photo Collections

Forty Little Mothers - Kapralik Trade Ad

Here is a trade ad for MGM's Forty Little Mothers (1940), starring Eddie Cantor. The art is by mixed-media caricaturist Jaques Kapralik. Trade Ads were placed by studios in industry magazines like Variety and The Hollywood Reporter.

Strike Me Pink - Movie Poster

Strike Me Pink - Movie Poster

Eddie Cantor - Candid photo

Here is a candid still of Eddie Cantor from 1935, signing autographs for a crowd of fans.

Videos

Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943) -- (Movie Clip) Blues In The Night, John Garfield Dinah Shore has just opened with the the title song, as radio host Don Wilson helps her segue to top-billed Eddie Cantor and the first big cameo, John Garfield (who co-founded the armed services pro-bono entertainment club the Hollywood Canteen, to which all the stars donated their salaries), with the Harold Arlen-Johnny Mercer tune, in one of the funniest bits in the bulky Warner Bros. wartime propaganda showcase, Thank Your Lucky Stars, 1943.

Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943) -- (Movie Clip) They're Either Too Young Or Too Old Bette Davis (like all the Warner Bros. stars, donating her salary to the Hollywood Canteen she co-founded), delivers an original by Arthur Schwartz and Frank Loesser which earned an Academy Award nomination and became a widely recorded hit, in the variety propaganda effort Thank Your Lucky Stars, 1943, Conrad Wiedell her dance partner.

Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943) -- (Movie Clip) That's What You Jolly Well Get The schtick for Errol Flynn (who like the other big names, donated his $50,000 salary to the armed services benefit Hollywood Canteen) for the wartime fundraiser show-within-a-show premise of the Warner Bros. propaganda feature is an original by Arthur Schwartz and Frank Loesser, staged by Leroy Prinz, in Thank Your Lucky Stars, 1943.

Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943) -- (Movie Clip) You Know Who You're Talking To? S.Z. “Cuddles” Sakall is the promoter with Edward Everett Horton of a fictional wartime benefit show, and they’re being driven nuts by (pretending) egomaniac star Eddie Cantor, so he doesn’t recognize Humphrey Bogart, maybe because of the impressive scruffy beard, in the Warner Bros. morale-Musical variety hit Thank Your Lucky Stars, 1943.

Strike Me Pink (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Shake It Off With Rhythm Some foul language in the tune by Harold Arlen and Lew Brown, but one of only two proper numbers with Ethel Merman, plus neat trick camera work by Gregg Toland on a dance by Sunnie O'Dea, in Samuel Goldwyn's Eddie Cantor vehicle, Strike Me Pink, 1936.

Strike Me Pink (1936) -- (Movie Clip) High And Low Nebbish Eddie Cantor in the crowd swooning over Ethel Merman, then 27 years old, her first scene, with a tune by Harold Arlen and Lew Brown, shot by Merrit Gerstad, from the Samuel Goldwyn production Strike Me Pink, 1936.

Kid from Spain, The -- (Movie Clip) Opening Credits Opening credits for Samuel Goldwyn's production of Eddie Cantor's 3rd Hollywood vehicle The Kid from Spain, 1932, directed by Leo McCarey, numbers by Busby Berkeley, songs by Burt Kalmar and Harry Ruby.

Kid from Spain, The -- (Movie Clip) What a Perfect Combination! Eddie (Eddie Cantor) in horrible black-face to escape villains, in Kalmar and Ruby's "What a Perfect Combination," staged by Busby Berkeley (said to feature Goldwyn Girls Betty Grable, Jane Wyman and Paulette Goddard) in The Kid from Spain, 1932.

Kid from Spain, The -- (Movie Clip) Bullfight A portion of the big bullfight sequence, in which incompetent Eddie (Eddie Cantor, a.k.a. "Don Sebastian") discovers the tame bull he's arranged for has been replaced, in Leo McCarey's The Kid From Spain, 1932.

Hollywood Canteen -- (Original Trailer) Half of Hollywood pitches in to help a serviceman and a starlet find love at the Hollywood Canteen (1944)

40 Little Mothers - (Original Trailer) A girls' school teacher (Eddie Cantor) stumbles on an abandoned baby in 40 Little Mothers (1940) directed by Busby Berkeley.

Show Business - (Original Trailer) Eddie Cantor and George Murphy star in the story of four vaudevillians who struggle to make it in Show Business (1944).

Thank Your Lucky Stars - (Original Trailer) An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort in Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943) with guest appearances by Bette Davis, Errol Flynn & Humphrey Bogart.

Family

Margie Cantor

Daughter

Died in 1959.

Natalie Cantor Clary

Daughter

Married to actor Robert Clary; died in 1997.

Companions

Ida Cantor

Wife

Married June 1915 until her death in 1962.

Bibliography

"Eddie Cantor: A Bio-Bibliography"

James Fisher, Greenwood Press (1997)

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