Eddie Cantor Story (1953)
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Eddie Cantor, beloved "banjo eyed" entertainer who conquered stage, films, radio and television, is given the Hollywood biopic treatment in this largely uninvolving film. Cantor is portrayed by Keefe Brasselle, a minor nightclub performer of the 1950s who couldn't hope to come within… More Eddie Cantor, beloved "banjo eyed" entertainer who conquered stage, films, radio and television, is given the Hollywood biopic treatment in this largely uninvolving film. Cantor is portrayed by Keefe Brasselle, a minor nightclub performer of the 1950s who couldn't hope to come within shouting distance of Cantor's appeal. The storyline charts Cantor's professional progress, from the lower East Side boyhood to his ascendancy as star of The Ziegfeld Follies. It also chronicles his enduring marriage to wife Ida (Marilyn Erskine). Surprisingly shortchanged in the film was Cantor's humanitarian work (primarily on behalf of the March of Dimes and various Jewish causes); instead, screen time is wasted on Aline MacMahon, as lachrymose as possible in the role of Eddie's grandmother, and Jackie Barnett, giving a gosh-awful performance as Jimmy Durante. At the beginning and end of the film, the real Eddie and Ida Cantor appear, ostensibly to watch the unspooling of The Eddie Cantor Story in a Warner Bros. screening room. At the fade-out, Eddie turns to Ida and says "I've never been so happy in my life." Now that was great acting! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Directed By
- Alfred E. Green
- Genres
- Musical & Performing Arts
Unrated,
- On DVD
- Feb 27, 1996
- Studio
- Warner Bros.
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Cast
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Keefe Brasselle
as Eddie Cantor
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Marilyn Erskine
as Ida
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Aline MacMahon
as Grandma Esther
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Marie Windsor
as Cleo Abbott
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Arthur Franz
as Harry Harris
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Jackie Barnett
as Durante
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Alex Gerry
as David Tobias
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Greta Granstedt
as Rachel Tobias
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Gerald Mohr
as Rocky
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William Forrest
as Florenz Ziegfeld
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Richard Monda
as Eddie (Age 13)
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Douglas Evans
as Leo Raymond
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Ann Doran
as Lillian Edwards
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Hal March
as Gus Edwards
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Susan Odin
as Ida at Age I I
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Owen Pritchard
as Boy Harris
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Will Rogers Jr.
as Will Rogers
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Steffi Sidney
as Edna Cantor
- Will Rogers
