Eddie Cantor

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The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater (1955)

Cinderella Man (2005)

Blazing Saddles (1974)

Space Jam (1996)

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2010 Lost Boys: The Thirst (video) (writer: "Merrily We Roll Along")

2007-2009 The Angry Video Game Nerd (TV series)

– Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle (2009) (music: "Merrily We Roll Along" - uncredited)

– Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout (2007) (music: "Merrily We Roll Along" - uncredited)

2009 Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1930s: Dancing Away the Great Depression (video documentary) (performer: "Okay, Toots" - uncredited, "Mandy" - uncredited, "Build a Little Home" - uncredited)

2008 Hollywood Singing and Dancing: A Musical History - The 1920s: The Dawn of the Hollywood Musical (video documentary) (writer: "The Dumber They Come, the Better I Like 'em" - uncredited / performer: "Oh, Gee, Georgie!" - uncredited, "The Dumber They Come, the Better I Like 'em" - uncredited, "Makin' Whoopee" - uncredited)

2005 Cinderella Man (performer: "Cheer Up, Smile, Nertz" 1931)

2003 Looney Tunes: Back in Action (lyrics: "Merrily We Roll Along")

1996 Space Jam (writer: "Merrily We Roll Along")

1994 Bullets Over Broadway (performer: "Ma He's Making Eyes At Me")

1993 Animaniacs (TV series)

– Video Review/When Mice Ruled the Earth (1993) (music: "Merrily We Roll Along" - uncredited)

– Roll Over, Beethoven/The Cat and the Fiddle (1993) (music: "Merrily We Roll Along" - uncredited)

– H.M.S. Yakko/Slappy Goes Walnuts/Yakko's Universe Song (1993) (music: "Merrily We Roll Along" - uncredited)

– De-Zanitized/The Monkey Song/Nighty-Night Toon (1993) (music: "Merrily We Roll Along" - uncredited)

1991 Curly Sue (writer: "Merrily We Roll Along")

1991 Rover Dangerfield (writer: "Merrily We Roll Along")

1990 Tiny Toon Adventures (TV series)

– Who Bopped Bugs Bunny? (1990) (music: "Merrily We Roll Along" - uncredited)

– Animaniacs! (1990) (music: "Merrily We Roll Along" - uncredited)

– Gang Busters (1990) (music: "Merrily We Roll Along" - uncredited)

1990 Gremlins 2: The New Batch (writer: "MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG")

1990 Men Don't Leave (writer: "MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG")

1975 Brother Can You Spare a Dime (documentary) (performer: "Now's the Time to Fall in Love" 1931)

1974 Blazing Saddles (writer: "Merrily We Roll Along")

1967 Bonnie and Clyde (writer: "I Love to Spend Each Sunday with You" - uncredited / performer: "I Love to Spend Each Sunday with You" - uncredited)

1958 The Eddie Fisher Show (TV series)

– Episode dated 23 October 1958 (1958) (performer: "About a Quarter to Nine" - uncredited, "The Anniversary Song" - uncredited, "April Showers" - uncredited, "I'm Sitting on Top of the World" - uncredited, "Liza All the Clouds'll Roll Away" - uncredited, "Rock-a-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody" - uncredited, "Swanee" - uncredited, "Sonny Boy" - uncredited, "Toot, Toot, Tootsie Goo' Bye!" - uncredited)

1953 The Eddie Cantor Story (writer: "I Love to Spend Each Sunday with You" - uncredited)

1952 The Story of Will Rogers (performer: "Ma He's Making Eyes at Me" - uncredited)

1948 If You Knew Susie (performer: "If You Knew Susie" 1925, "What Do I Want with Money" 1948, "My, How the Time Goes By" 1948, "Sextette" 1835 - uncredited)

1947 Big Time Revue (short) (writer: "I'll Have Vanilla" - uncredited)

1944 Hollywood Canteen (performer: "We're Having a Baby" 1941)

1944 Show Business (performer: "The Curse of an Aching Heart", "I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad", "Dinah", "Sextette", "Makin' Whoopee", "I Don't Want to Get Well", "Alabamy Bound")

1943 Thank Your Lucky Stars (performer: "Now's the Time to Fall in Love" 1931 - uncredited, "We're Staying Home Tonight" 1943 - uncredited / "London Bridge Is Falling Down" - uncredited)

1940 Forty Little Mothers (performer: "Little Curly Hair in a High Chair" 1940 - uncredited / "Little Curly Hair in a High Chair" 1940 - uncredited)

1939 The Bear That Couldn't Sleep (short) (lyrics: "Merrily We Roll Along")

1937 Ali Baba Goes to Town (performer: "Laugh Your Way Through Life" 1937 - uncredited, "Swing Is Here to Sway" 1937 - uncredited, "Vote for Honest Abe" 1937 - uncredited / "Pennies from Heaven" 1936 - uncredited, "Dinah" 1925 - uncredited)

1936 Strike Me Pink (performer: "First You Have Me High Then You Have Me Low" 1935 - uncredited, "The Lady Dances" 1935 - uncredited, "Calabash Pipe" 1935 - uncredited)

1935 Billboard Frolics (short) (lyrics: "Merrily We Roll Along")

1935 Devil Dogs of the Air (lyrics: "Merrily We Roll Along" - uncredited)

1934 Kid Millions (performer: "When My Ship Comes In" 1934 - uncredited, "Mandy" 1918 - uncredited, "Okay, Toots" 1934 - uncredited, "Let My People Go" - uncredited, "Ice Cream Fantasy" 1934 - uncredited / "The Man on the Flying Trapeze" 1867 - uncredited)

1933 Roman Scandals (performer: "Build a Little Home" 1933 - uncredited, "Keep Young and Beautiful" 1933 - uncredited, "Put a Tax on Love" 1933 - uncredited / "All of Me" 1931 - uncredited, "Dinah" 1925 - uncredited, "Kickin' the Gong Around" 1931 - uncredited)

1932 The Kid from Spain (performer: "In the Moonlight" 1932 - uncredited, "Look What You've Done" 1932 - uncredited, "What a Perfect Combination" 1932 - uncredited, "La Paloma" / "What a Perfect Combination" 1932 - uncredited)

1931 Palmy Days (music: "There's Nothing Too Good For My Baby" 1931 - uncredited / lyrics: "There's Nothing Too Good For My Baby" 1931 - uncredited / performer: "There's Nothing Too Good For My Baby" 1931 - uncredited, "Yes, Yes My Baby Said Yes, Yes" 1931 - uncredited / "Yes, Yes My Baby Said Yes, Yes" 1931 - uncredited, "Falling in Love Again" 1930 - uncredited, "Happy Days Are Here Again" 1929 - uncredited, "The Wedding March" 1843 - uncredited)

1930 Whoopee! (performer: "Makin' Whoopee" 1928 - uncredited, "A Girl Friend of a Boy Friend of Mine" 1930 - uncredited, "My Baby Just Cares for Me" 1930 - uncredited / "Makin' Waffles" 1930 - uncredited, "Ol' Man River" 1927 - uncredited)

1930 Insurance (short) (writer: "Now That the Girls Are Wearing Long Dresses" - uncredited / performer: "Now That the Girls Are Wearing Long Dresses" - uncredited)

1930 Getting a Ticket (short) (performer: "My Wife Is on a Diet" - uncredited)

1929 A Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic (short) (performer: "I Faw Down an' Go Boom", "If I Give Up the Saxophone", "Eddie Cantor's Automobile Horn Song")

1929 Finding His Voice (documentary short) (writer: "Merrily We Roll Along" - uncredited)

1923 A Few Moments with Eddie Cantor, Star of 'Kid Boots' (short) (writer: "The Dumber They Come, the Better I Like 'em" 1923 - uncredited / performer: "The Dumber They Come, the Better I Like 'em" 1923 - uncredited, "Oh, Gee, Georgie!" - uncredited)

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Ziegfeld Follies of 1920 (1920). Musical revue/spectacle. Music by Irving Berlin, Dave Stamper, Gene Buck, Joseph McCarthy, Harry Tierney and Victor Herbert. Lyrics by Irving Berlin, Dave Stamper, Gene Buck, Joseph J. McCarthy, Harry Tierney and Victor Herbert. Musical Director: Frank Tours. Music orchestrated by Maurice De Packh, Charles Grant, Stephen Jones and Frank Saddler. Featuring songs with lyrics by James Montgomery, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Gus Van, Joe Schenck, Eddie Cantor, Mac Emery, King Zany, George Fairman , Alex Gerber, Abner Silver, Jack Yellen, Abe Olman, Roger Lewis and Ernie Erdman. Tableaux by Ben Ali Haggin. Directed by Edward Royce. New Amsterdam Theatre: 22 Jun 1920- 16 Oct 1920 (123 performances). Cast: Delyle Alda, William Blanche, Fanny Brice, Lillian Broderick, Eddie Cantor, Jane Carroll, Juliet Compton, Olive Cornell, Eleanor Dell, Jack Donohue, Ray Dooley, Emily Drange, Doris Eaton, Mary Eaton, W.C. Fields, Edna French, Eva Grady, Bernard 'Bunny' Granville, Ethel Hallor, Margaret Irving, Jerome & Herbert, Alta King, Phebe Lee, Gladys Loftus, Jack Mahan, Albertine Marlowe Beatrice Milner, Moran and Mack, Margaret Morris, Betty Morton, Carl Randall, Jessie Reed, Helen Shea, John Steel, Avonne Taylor, Van and Schenck, Olive Vaughn, Charlotte Wakefield, Florence Ware, Charles Winninger, Addison Young. Produced by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.. See more »

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2 Biographical Movies | 7 Print Biographies | See more »

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Official Eddie Cantor Website | See more »

Height:

5' 8" (1.73 m)

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[after attending the premiere of the film The Eddie Cantor Story] If that was my life, I didn't live. See more »

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At one time, when the rights to The Wizard of Oz were owned by Samuel Goldwyn, Cantor was considered for the role of the Scarecrow. Goldwyn eventually sold the rights to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. See more »

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The Apostle of Pep See more »

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Aquarius

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