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
- Directed By
- Roy Del Ruth
- Written By
- Nunnally Johnson
- Genres
- Classics, Comedy, Musical & Performing Arts
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Nov 10, 1934 Wide
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Cast
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Eddie Cantor
as Eddie Wilson Jr.
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Stanley Fields
as Oscar
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Ann Sothern
as Joan Larrabee
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Doris Davenport
as Toots
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Ethel Merman
as Dot Clark
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Otto Hoffman
as Khoot
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George Murphy
as Jerry Lane
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Eve Sully
as Fanya
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Paul Harvey
as Sheik Mulhulla
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Warren Hymer
as Louie the Lug
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Jesse Block
as Ben Ali
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Berton Churchill
as Col. Larrabee
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Wally Albright
as Children on Tug
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Lucille Ball
as A 1934 Goidwyn Girl
- Bonnie Bannon
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Matthew 'Stymie' Beard
as Stymie
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Tommy Bond
as Tommy
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Harry C. Bradley
as Bartender
- Mary Jane Carey
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Louise Carver
as Native Woman
- Lynne Carver
- Steve Clemente
- John Collum
- Lalo Encinas
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Harry Ernest
as Page Boy
- Helen Ferguson
- Budd Fine
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Harrison Greene
as Spielers
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Sam Hayes
as Eddie's Announcer
- Carmencita Johnson
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Noble Johnson
as Attendant
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Tor Johnson
as Torturer
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Bobby Jordan
as Tourist
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Edgar Kennedy
as Herman
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Jack Kennedy
as Pop
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Leonard Kibrick
as Leonard
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Henry Kolker
as Attorney
- Bob Kortman
- Ivan Linow
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Theodore Lorch
as Native Fakir
- Art Mix
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Ed Mortimer
as Ship's Officer
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Clarence Muse
as Col. Witherspoon
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The Nicholas Brothers
as Specialty Number
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Edward Peil Sr.
as Assistant Bartender
- Barbara Pepper
- George Regas
- Mickey Rentschler
- Constantine Romanoff
- Billy Seay
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Guy Usher
as William Slade
- Malcolm Waite
- Fred Warren
- Zack Williams
- Leo Willis
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Helen Wood
as 1934 Goldwyn Girl
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William Arnold
as Steward
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Everett Brown
as Slave
- Jane Hamilton
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John Kelly
as Adolph
- Irene Bentley
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Larry Fisher
as Warrior
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Lon Poff
as Recorder
- Caryl Lincoln
- Wanda Perry
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Bob Reeves
as Trumpeteer
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Eddie Arden
as Busboy
- Mary Lou Dix
- Gail Goodson
- Silver Harr
- Mary Lange
- Gwen Seager
- Jacqueline Taylor
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Charlie Hall
as Native
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Robert Ellis
as Desert Rider
