A Few Moments with Eddie Cantor
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- čas přidán 19. 11. 2006
- Stage, radio and film star Eddie Cantor puts on a classic vaudeville routine including a few jokes in between breaking into song.
One of the biggest entertainers of the early 20th century, the type self-deprecating humor he helped define can still has influence today with comedians such as Letterman, Conan and Jon Stewart.
Musical numbers include the daffy "Oh, Gee, Georgie" and the irreverent "The Dumber They Come, The Better I Like 'Em," arguably a classic even by today's standards.
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This song speaks to me
my hope is that he has to sing this for all eternity in the afterlife.
thx for posting this. this is a great opportunity to feel like you're in a the theater of a 1920's Cantor show, you get the same feeling.
tough crowd!
"I'm not Tommy Meeham". Tommy Meeham was a famous Eddie Cantor impersonator back then.
just came upon the video because of Boardwalk Empire, so I now know that this guy Eddie Cantor is real an not a fictional character, suddenly I'm very interested in this time period, my favs on the show, Jimmy Darmody, Chalky White, Lucky Luciano and Arnold Rothstein,
"you remember we had the week before christmas last year?" hahaha
Nearly all major characters in all HBO period drama shows are actual characters. As far as I can tell most performers that sing or play on instruments in BE are real characters and so are most big gangsters and politicians including Nucky, Al Capone and that dude from New York.
Yeah I love that show, it brought me here too. I bought the soundtrack to the first season, it's great. Jimmy Darmondy is totally fictional. Lucky Luciano and Arnold Rothstein were real gangsters of the period. The character of Nucky Thompson is based on the Atlantic county treasurer Enoch Johson, who was also very corrupt, but not a murderer.
i agree with eddy bout the dumb ones
the first song plays at boardwalk empire, americans can be fuckin smart...
How would I imatate that set up? I mean everything, the guy standing on a (stage?) in front of a black background adddressing the audience in black and white with the poor sound quality.
I'm guessing this wasn't filmed in front of an audience and they didn't have laughter tracks back then?
Yup. He's just barreling through his act for the camera. This is an experimental sound film from 1923, so early that they had no idea yet how to do it for best effect. The smattering of applause you hear is probably from the off-stage band that accompanies him.