Kid Millions (1934)

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Brooklyn tugboat worker Eddie (Eddie Cantor), bullied and cowed by his tough-guy stepfather and stepbrothers (a la Harold Lloyd's The Kid Brother), inherits $77 million from his uncle, an Egyptologist. Con artist Dot (Ethel Merman) wants to get her lunchhooks on the money, and to this end offers… More Brooklyn tugboat worker Eddie (Eddie Cantor), bullied and cowed by his tough-guy stepfather and stepbrothers (a la Harold Lloyd's The Kid Brother), inherits $77 million from his uncle, an Egyptologist. Con artist Dot (Ethel Merman) wants to get her lunchhooks on the money, and to this end offers herself as Eddie's adopted mother (never mind that she's nearly 20 years younger), intending to have her thuggish brother Louie (Warren Hymer) bump off our hero at the first opportunity. The nonsensical plotline ends up with Eddie, Dot, Louie, pompous Southern colonel Larrabee (Berton Churchill), and nominal romantic leads Jerry (George Murphy in his film debut) and Jane (Ann Sothern) trapped in the palace of Arab potentate Mulhulla (Paul Harvey). The better-than-average comic banter includes some funny bits between Cantor and Eve Sully, of the comedy team of "Block and Sully" (her husband-partner Jesse Block is also in the picture, but just barely). Spotted among the featured players in Kid Millions are such "Our Gang" members as Stymie Beard, Scotty Beckett and Tommy Bond, and there's a specialty by the Nicholas Brothers during Cantor's obligatory "blackface" number; and yes, that's Lucille Ball as a blonde Goldwyn Girl in the harem sequence. PS: According to Ethel Merman, the film's elaborate Technicolor ice-cream factory finale, in which Eddie allows dozens of tenement kids to gorge themselves on his tasty confections, posed censorship problems: while producer Sam Goldwyn was allowed to show the little boys with comically extended stomachs, he was not permitted to do so with the little girls, for fear that the audience might think the female moppets were pregnant! ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Rating, Runtime: Unrated, 1 hr. 30 min.
Directed By: Roy Del Ruth
Written By: Nunnally Johnson
Genres: Musical & Performing Arts, Classics, Comedy

In Theaters: Nov 10, 1934 Wide

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Cast

            Eddie Cantor as Eddie Wilson Jr.

            Stanley Fields as Oscar

            Ann Sothern as Joan Larrabee

            Doris Davenport as Toots

            Ethel Merman as Dot Clark

            Otto Hoffman as Khoot

            George Murphy as Jerry Lane

            Eve Sully as Fanya

            Paul Harvey as Sheik Mulhulla

            Warren Hymer as Louie the Lug

            Jesse Block as Ben Ali

            Berton Churchill as Col. Larrabee

            Wally Albright as Children on Tug

            Lucille Ball as A 1934 Goidwyn Girl

            Bonnie Bannon
            
            Matthew 'Stymie' Beard as Stymie

            Tommy Bond as Tommy

            Harry C. Bradley as Bartender

            Mary Jane Carey
            
            Louise Carver as Native Woman

            Lynne Carver
            
            Steve Clemente
            
            John Collum
            
            Lalo Encinas
            
            Harry Ernest as Page Boy

            Helen Ferguson
            
            Budd Fine
            
            Harrison Greene as Spielers

            Sam Hayes as Eddie's Announcer

            Carmencita Johnson
            
            Noble Johnson as Attendant

            Tor Johnson as Torturer

            Bobby Jordan as Tourist

            Edgar Kennedy as Herman

            Jack Kennedy as Pop

            Leonard Kibrick as Leonard

            Henry Kolker as Attorney

            Bob Kortman
            
            Ivan Linow
            
            Theodore Lorch as Native Fakir

            Art Mix
            
            Ed Mortimer as Ship's Officer

            Clarence Muse as Col. Witherspoon

            The Nicholas Brothers as Specialty Number

            Edward Peil Sr. as Assistant Bartender

            Barbara Pepper
            
            George Regas
            
            Mickey Rentschler
            
            Constantine Romanoff
            
            Billy Seay
            
            Guy Usher as William Slade

            Malcolm Waite
            
            Fred Warren
            
            Zack Williams
            
            Leo Willis
            
            Helen Wood as 1934 Goldwyn Girl

            William Arnold as Steward

            Everett Brown as Slave

            Jane Hamilton
            
            John Kelly as Adolph

            Irene Bentley
            
            Larry Fisher as Warrior

            Lon Poff as Recorder

            Caryl Lincoln
            
            Wanda Perry
            
            Bob Reeves as Trumpeteer

            Eddie Arden as Busboy

            Mary Lou Dix
            
            Gail Goodson
            
            Silver Harr
            
            Mary Lange
            
            Gwen Seager
            
            Jacqueline Taylor
            
            Charlie Hall as Native

            Robert Ellis as Desert Rider
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