Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303922362 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC ISBN: 6303922368 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: September 01, 1998 Running Time: 115 minutes Sales Rank: 17819 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: January 20, 1954
Description: Musical biopic featuring the vocals of Cantor himself during the musical numbers. Cantors greatest hits are featured, including Ida, Sweet As Apple Cider, If You Knew Susie, Potatos are Cheaper, Margie, and Ichr(39)d Like to Spend Each Sunda With you. Jac
Amazon.com: A big slice of show-biz cheese, The Eddie Cantor Story follows the Broadway legend from childhood, when he narrowly escaped delinquency, through his youth in vaudeville to his years of success as the star of Florenz Ziegfeld's smash revues. Impersonated with eye-rolling hamminess by Keefe Brasselle (who hosted a brief-lived variety show in the 1960s), Cantor is an archetypal go-getter, a relentless workaholic who sacrificed his family life to sing Tin Pan Alley classics like 'Makin' Whoopee' before an adoring crowd. The cliches fly fast and furious; the best bit is when a venomous actress (film noir queen Marie Windsor, The Killing, The Narrow Margin), sick of Cantor upstaging her, tries to sabotage Cantor by pretending to arrange an audition for him. Along the way are overdone imitations of Jimmy Durante and Will Rogers telling Cantor how great he is. Contemporary audiences are apt to be startled by the cheerful performances in blackface, which the movie blithely embraces as good-natured fun. This ends up being The Eddie Cantor Story's most intriguing aspect, though more for sociological interest than entertainment value. --Bret Fetzer
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Rating: - Highly Enjoyable
Eddie Cantor was a popular entertainer from the beginning of the 20th century. He grew up in the slums of New York, finding himself in trouble with the local gangs, though at heart he was always a good boy (Richard Monda). Fearful that her son might grow up the wrong way, his grandmother (Aline MacMahon) lets him go on the stage with Gus Edwards (Hal March). He (Keefe Brasselle) grows up to be quite the attention hog, but always a good hearted man. Slowly, his fame rises, but with each new set of hands to applaude, Cantor becomes even more restless in the pursuit of fame, even at the expense of his wife (Marilyn Erskine), children, and health.
There are many other famous names peppered throughout the film including Florenz Ziegfeld, Will Rogers and Jimmy Durante.
There are also several problems with the film. Brasselle's performance is sometimes a bit too exaggerated, making Old Banjo Eyes ... Read More
Rating: - little truth to the story and vocals are by an aging Cantor
If you want to see what the real Eddie Cantor was like in his prime, watch Palmy Days or Roman Scandals, both made in the early 1930s. Even though the vocals in this biopic were recorded by Eddie, he was older and in poor health and did not sing as well as when he was younger. Sadly, the movie does not tell about Cantor's humanitarian nature: his verbal attack on the character of anti-semitic Father Coughlin in 1939 that put an end to Cantor's half-million dollar radio contract; his having Sammy Davis Jr. as a return guest on the Colgate Comedy hour in the early 1950s after Sammy's first visit caused an outpouring of hate mail; his coining the phrase "March of Dimes" when FDR asked Cantor for advice in raising money to fight polio.
Rating: - Much Better than what the critics stated
I just recently purchased this movie--I remember looking at on tv, when I was a kid, and I did enjoy it then, and I enjoyed it even better now, since I was now looking at it in color!!
The only flaw I saw in the movie was that Mr Brasselle did overplay Mr Cantor's mannerisms just a little, but the blame should not have been on the actor alone, but also the director, who supervised the whole movie while it was still in production--and where was Mr. Cantor when this movie was being made?? It seemed he should have been around for just a couple of scenes, and made his comments known before the movie was finished--Instead after he reviewed the whole picture, his comment was, "If that was me, I didn't live".
The actor must have been devastated, along with the comments of the critics--This man's career was never the same again!!
It seems a shame to blame only the actor for the quality ... Read More
Rating: - A Great Old Time Story that will melt your heart.
I have a sentimental place in my heart for this movie. My mother and I used to watch it late night--black and white--many years ago--and cry everytime at the touching parts.
It's a great musical and reveals how the Follies were done and how wonderful the big shows were.
Anyway, I'd buy it again and since I now have it, will watch it over and over.
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