#eddie cantor

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Eddie Cantor, 1919

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The Eddie Cantor School for Talent

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Palmy Days (dir. A. Edward Sutherland, 1931)

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Eddie Cantor signing autographs for fans as he arrived in London in July 1938. Cantor was in Britain to help raise funds to help German refugees.

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MEG STEEDLE and STEPHEN DEROSA as BILLIE KENT and EDDIE CANTOR in BOARDWALK EMPIRE (2010-2014) 3x01 Resolution

[thepopculturearchivist]

LIFE, March 8, 1928

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Eddie Cantor & Clara Bow dans 'Kid Boots' (1926). - Source

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Miguel Covarrubias, That Evening Sun Goes Down, 1938

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I’m wheezing at this thumbnail. Why is Mark Eddie Cantor

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Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Sylvia Park, and Eddie Cantor, dated 1932

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1950.

Eddie Cantor: Banned in Canada.

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Old Hollywood actors born in 1892

William Powell

Basil Rathbone

Alan Hale

Thomas Mitchell

Oliver Hardy

Hoot Gibson

Eddie Cantor

Osgood Perkins

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Eddie Cantor and Irving Thalberg having a meal together circa 1932. Thalberg does not look impressed.

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Myriad Masks

Messenger boys wearing Eddie Cantor masks pose with the real Eddie Cantor in Grand Central Station in New York. January 1936.

Mardi Gras celebration of 1935 at Venice Beach showing two young ladies on the beach wearing the alligator masks which will be used later in the parade (via Los Angeles Public Library)

Norwegian Artist Damselfrau Creates Otherworldly Masks From Recycled Materials

Press Photo - Danny Thomas And Kids

Angela Cartwright, Danny Thomas And Rusty Homer Pinch-Hit For Red Skelton Recuperating From An Operation, On CBS TV Tuesday (Jan08th1961)

Inge Morath, ‘Masquerade’

The Saul Steinberg Mask Series (1960-1962)

Giant pantomime heads being decorated at the Pytree papier mache factory in New Malden, Surrey (1938)

Buntis Holiday Camp

Women workers at Butlins Holiday Camp wearing Marilyn Monroe face masks as they parade in their swimsuits.

Photography by Fred Ramage

Beauty contestants are judged solely on their figures, thanks to the introduction of papier mache Marilyn Monroe masks, at the Butlins Holiday Camp in Clacton-on-Sea, May 27, 1952

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Above: the sheet music for Shakin' the Blues Away. Photo: ebay

The Ziegfeld Follies of 1927 was the first Follies to feature a star performer--Eddie Cantor--and the first to have all its songs written by a single composer--Irving Berlin. Although it received tepid reviews ("His formula has never failed," wrote Time magazine. "But as nothing subscribes more unreservedly to the law of diminishing returns than [a] succession of splendors, this last superbly heralded Follies achieves only another anticlimax."), it was a hit, running for 167 performances from 1927-28.

In addition to Cantor (who appeared in nearly half the numbers), the show featured Claire Luce, Cliff Edwards (aka Ukelele Ike; 13 years later he was the voice of Jiminy Cricket in Disney's Pinocchio), Ruth Etting, and the Brox Sisters.

"Shakin' the Blues Away" was the show's big number, and Etting made her breakout appearance leading it.

Above: Shakin' the Blues Away, led by Ruth Etting. Photo: Songbook

There was also a jungle scene with live animals, in which Luce entered riding an ostrich. One night the bird left the stage in a flurry and, instead of depositing Luce in the wings, kept on walking, out the stage door and onto West 43rd St.

Below is the first page of the program for the October 17, 1927 performance. Note the sententious legend, "He who glorifies beauty glorifies truth." Would Keats have approved?

Above: the first page of the program for Oct. 17, 1927. Photo: Playbill

The 1927 Follies was the last of 21 annual shows. It was revived briefly in 1931, but didn't continue. The Follies were essentially vaudeville, only much more sumptuous. Later in 1927, Ziegfeld produced Show Boat at his own theater, and it heralded a change in Broadway musicals.

[julesofnature]

“Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.”  ~ Eddie Cantor