Singer, songwriter ("Merrily We Roll Along"), comedian, author and actor, educated in public schools. He made his first public appearance in Vaudeville in 1907 at New York's Clinton Music Hall, then became a member of the Gus Edwards Gang, later touring vaudeville with Lila Lee as the team Cantor & Lee...See full bio »
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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)
1953The Eddie Cantor Story
(writer: "I Love to Spend Each Sunday with You" - uncredited)
1948If 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)
1947Big Time Revue
(short)
(writer: "I'll Have Vanilla" - uncredited)
1944Show Business
(performer: "The Curse of an Aching Heart" 1913 - uncredited, "I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad" 1911 - uncredited, "Sextette" 1935 - uncredited, "Alabamy Bound" 1924 - uncredited, "Dinah" 1925 - uncredited, "I Don't Want to Get Well" 1917 - uncredited, "Makin' Whoopee" 1928 - uncredited)
1943Thank 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)
1940Forty Little Mothers
(performer: "Little Curly Hair in a High Chair" 1940 - uncredited / "Little Curly Hair in a High Chair" 1940 - uncredited)
1937Ali 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)
1936Strike Me Pink
(performer: "First You Have Me High Then You Have Me Low" 1935 - uncredited, "The Lady Dances" 1935 - uncredited, "Calabash Pipe" 1935 - uncredited)
1934Kid 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)
1933Roman 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)
1932The 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)
1931Palmy 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, "Happy Days Are Here Again" 1929 - uncredited / "Yes, Yes My Baby Said Yes, Yes" 1931 - uncredited, "The Wedding March" 1843 - uncredited)
1930Whoopee!
(performer: "Makin' Whoopee" 1928 - uncredited, "A Girl Friend of a Boy Friend of Mine" 1930 - uncredited, "My Baby Just Cares for Me" 1930 - uncredited, "Ol' Man River" 1927 - uncredited / "Makin' Waffles" 1930 - uncredited)
1930Insurance
(short)
(writer: "Now That the Girls Are Wearing Long Dresses" - uncredited / performer: "Now That the Girls Are Wearing Long Dresses" - uncredited)
1930Getting a Ticket
(short)
(performer: "My Wife Is on a Diet" - uncredited)
1929A Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic
(short)
(performer: "I Faw Down an' Go Boom", "If I Give Up the Saxophone", "Eddie Cantor's Automobile Horn Song")
1929That Party in Person
(short)
(performer: "Hungry Women", "Here's That Party Now In Person")
1929Finding His Voice
(documentary short)
(writer: "Merrily We Roll Along" - uncredited)
1923A 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)
[on Al Jolson] He was more than just a singer or an actor. He was an experience.
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He invented the name "March of Dimes" for the donation campaigns of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (polio), a play on the "March of Time" newsreels. He began the first campaign on his own radio show in January 1938, asking people to mail a dime to the nation's most famous polio victim...
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