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Title: The Eddie Cantor Story (1953)
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| 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 | ... | Flo Ziegfeld | |
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Jackie Barnett | ... | Jimmy Durante |
| Richard Monda | ... | Eddie - age 13 | |
| Marie Windsor | ... | Cleo Abbott | |
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Douglas Evans | ... | Leo Raymond |
| Ann Doran | ... | Lillian Edwards | |
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Hal March | ... | Gus Edwards |
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Susan Odin | ... | Ida - age 11 |
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
20 January 1954 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Glória do Passado See more »Filming Locations:
Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USACompany Credits
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(uncredited)
Music by Walter Donaldson
Lyrics by Gus Kahn
Sung by Eddie in Whoopee
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Did You Know?
Goofs
The film has someone calling him "Eddie" when he was 13. Cantor, whose real name was Israel Iskovitz, didn't change his name to Eddie Cantor until he was 21. See more »Soundtracks
Makin' Whoopee(uncredited)
Music by Walter Donaldson
Lyrics by Gus Kahn
Sung by Eddie in Whoopee
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Not to be out done by his late rival Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor got a biographical film of his own. It's no more true to life than The Jolson Story in fact it may be less true. Cantor had his faults, but on the whole was a nicer person than Jolson. But in fact these films are only an excuse to hear the many songs identified with Cantor over the course of his almost 50 years as an active performer beginning with him as a child working in one of Gus Edwards productions for talented kids.
Keefe Brasselle is superficially suggestive of Cantor and the lipsynching of Cantor standards is performed well. I don't think he came close to capturing the inner Cantor. Best in the film is Aline McMahon as Eddie's fabled Grandma Esther who raised him after he was orphaned.
At least the Jolson Story got it right that Al Jolson was not the man's birth name, he's presented to us as Asa Yoelson the cantor's son (no pun intended) from the beginning. Eddie Cantor's real name was Izzy Ishkowitz, but that was never brought up at all. It's the biggest error of the film.
The film stops in the early 30s and Cantor had at least 20 more years of active performing. It's adequate, but catch some of his films if you want to know what a marvelous performer Eddie Cantor was.