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Palmy Days

  • 19311931
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 1h 17m
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
545
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101,420
22,356
Palmy Days (1931)
ComedyMusicalRomance
The assistant of a phony psychic leaves the fraudulent business and becomes an efficiency expert.The assistant of a phony psychic leaves the fraudulent business and becomes an efficiency expert.The assistant of a phony psychic leaves the fraudulent business and becomes an efficiency expert.
IMDb RATING
7.1/10
545
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
101,420
22,356
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    • Director
      • A. Edward Sutherland
    • Writers
      • Eddie Cantor(story and dialogue)
      • Morrie Ryskind(story and dialogue)
      • David Freedman(story and dialogue)
    • Stars
      • Eddie Cantor
      • Charlotte Greenwood
      • Barbara Weeks
    Top credits
    • Director
      • A. Edward Sutherland
    • Writers
      • Eddie Cantor(story and dialogue)
      • Morrie Ryskind(story and dialogue)
      • David Freedman(story and dialogue)
    • Stars
      • Eddie Cantor
      • Charlotte Greenwood
      • Barbara Weeks
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    • 15User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
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    Palmy Days (1931)
    Betty Grable, Loretta Andrews, Edna Callahan, Nadine Dore, Ruth Eddings, Gloria Faythe, Amo Ingraham, Adele Lacy, Jean Lenivich, Betty Lorraine, Neva Lynn, Nancy Nash, Faye Pierre, Nita Pike, Betty Slocum, Hyca Slocum, Betty Stockton, Dorothy White, Hazel Witter, and Mildred Dixon in Palmy Days (1931)
    Betty Grable, Loretta Andrews, Edna Callahan, Nadine Dore, Ruth Eddings, Gloria Faythe, Amo Ingraham, Adele Lacy, Jean Lenivich, Betty Lorraine, Neva Lynn, Nancy Nash, Faye Pierre, Nita Pike, Betty Slocum, Hyca Slocum, Betty Stockton, Dorothy White, Hazel Witter, and Mildred Dixon in Palmy Days (1931)
    Eddie Cantor, Spencer Charters, and Paul Page in Palmy Days (1931)
    Eddie Cantor in Palmy Days (1931)
    Mary Ashcraft, Nadine Dore, Ruth Eddings, Gloria Faythe, and Betty Lorraine in Palmy Days (1931)
    Eddie Cantor and Gloria Faythe in Palmy Days (1931)
    Eddie Cantor in Palmy Days (1931)
    Adele Lacy in Palmy Days (1931)
    Betty Grable, Loretta Andrews, Edna Callahan, Eddie Cantor, Ruth Eddings, Charlotte Greenwood, Barbara Weeks, and Mildred Dixon in Palmy Days (1931)
    Eddie Cantor, Charlotte Greenwood, Olive Hatch, and Edmund Mortimer in Palmy Days (1931)
    Eddie Cantor and Charlotte Greenwood in Palmy Days (1931)

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    Eddie Cantor
    Eddie Cantor
    • Eddie Simpson
    Charlotte Greenwood
    Charlotte Greenwood
    • Helen Martin
    Barbara Weeks
    Barbara Weeks
    • Joan Clark
    Spencer Charters
    Spencer Charters
    • Mr. Clark
    Paul Page
    Paul Page
    • Steve
    Charles Middleton
    Charles Middleton
    • Yolando
    George Raft
    George Raft
    • Joe - Yolando's Henchman
    Harry Woods
    Harry Woods
    • Yolando's Henchman
    Loretta Andrews
    Loretta Andrews
    • Goldwyn Girl
    • (uncredited)
    Mary Ashcraft
    Mary Ashcraft
    • Mary
    • (uncredited)
    Busby Berkeley
    Busby Berkeley
    • Fortune Teller
    • (uncredited)
    Edna Callahan
    Edna Callahan
    • Goldwyn Girl
    • (uncredited)
    Georgia Coleman
    • Swimmer
    • (uncredited)
    Mildred Dixon
    Mildred Dixon
    • Goldwyn Girl
    • (uncredited)
    Nadine Dore
    Nadine Dore
    • Goldwyn Girl
    • (uncredited)
    Ruth Eddings
    Ruth Eddings
    • Goldwyn Girl
    • (uncredited)
    Bill Elliott
    Bill Elliott
    • Party Guest
    • (uncredited)
    Gloria Faythe
    • Goldwyn Girl
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • A. Edward Sutherland
    • Writers
      • Eddie Cantor(story and dialogue)
      • Morrie Ryskind(story and dialogue)
      • David Freedman(story and dialogue)
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    • Trivia
      Fourteen-year old Betty Grable (the film was already completed before she celebrated her 15th Birthday), is easily recognizable as the Bakery Girl who takes the order for the chocolate cake with the pansy on it in the opening sequence, and then proceeds to lead the chorus line in the Bend Down Sister number.
    • Goofs
      In the scene where Eddie Cantor sings "There's Nothing Too Good For My Baby" in blackface, the sign above the loud-speakers on the outside is misspelled: "GLORIFIYNG THE AMERICAN DOUGHNUT".
    • Quotes

      Eddie Simpson: Love is grand, simply grand!/ I'm in love, so you'll understand/ Why I rave. It's hard to behave!/ She's so cute, she's so sweet,/ I consider it such a treat/ To do nice things for the one I adore/ Baby wants to shop and then/ I take her down to the five-and-ten/ There's nothing to good for my baby!/ Baby likes a limousine,/ I show her one in a magazine./ There's nothing too good for my baby! Baby wants lots of love?/ Baby gets lots of love!/ Baby wants petting? Baby gets petting!/ That's what I've plenty of!/ Do I give? Yes siree!/ I'm no fool, I just gave her me!/ There's nothing to good for my baby!/ Baby wants to shop and then/ I take her down to the five-and-ten./ There's nothing to good for my baby!/ Rainy nights/ We both stay in,/ But I do card tricks and Gunga Din./ There's nothing to good for my baby!/ Baby wants lots of love?/ Baby gets lots of love!/ Baby wants petting? Baby gets petting!/ That's what I've plenty of!/ For a kid, she's simply wild/ I let her play with my sister's child./ There's nothing too good for my ba-ba-ba-baby!/ Baby wants to shop and then/ I take her down to the five-and-ten./ There's nothing to good for my baby!/ We go out, on pleasure bent,/ I let her dunk to her heart's content!/ There's nothing too good for my baby!/ Baby wants lots of ya-da-da!/ Baby gets lots of ya-da-da!/ Baby wants vo-deo-doh? Baby gets vo-deo-doh!/ That's what I've plenty of!/ She wants a pearl, she told me once/ So I ate oysters for months and months./ There's nothing to good for my ba-ba-ba-baby!

    • Connections
      Featured in Vito (2011)
    • Soundtracks
      Bend Down, Sister
      (1931) (uncredited)

      Music by Con Conrad

      Lyrics by Ballard MacDonald and David Silverstein

      Sung by Charlotte Greenwood

      Danced by chorus

    User reviews15

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    Top review
    7/10
    Efficiency Expert Eddie
    PALMY DAYS (United Artists, 1931), directed by Edward Sutherland, became Samuel Goldwyn's second annual Eddie Cantor production, and another laugh fest with dance numbers and smiling chorines, compliments from choreographer, Busby Berkeley. This being the shortest Cantor musical in the Goldwyn series (77 minutes), it also consists of the least amount of songs (a total of three), plus a handful of funny dialog as well as some violent physical comedy that would be considered something of a throwback during the Mack Sennett silent comedy days.

    In this venture, Eddie Cantor plays Eddie Simpson, a nervous little man (as he was in his initial Goldwyn musical, WHOOPEE, in 1930, this time singing whenever he becomes excited), who becomes an unwitting assistant to Yolando (Charles Middleton), a phony spiritualist. Helen Martin (Charlotte Greenwood), a single woman in search for a husband, who manages a gymnasium, regularly attends Yolando's séances. Merry mix-ups follow when Helen mistakes Eddie for her future husband, while Eddie is mistaken for the predicted efficiency expert by Yolando's gullible but millionaire client, A.B. Clark (Spencer Charters), owner of a gigantic bakery business. Eddie becomes interested with Clark's doll-faced daughter, Joan (Barbara Weeks), whom he believes is in love with him, but she is really interested in Steve Clayton (Paul Page). Because Eddie stands in the way of Yolando's corrupt scheme to rob Clark of his $25,000, he hires his two thugs, Joe (George Raft) and Plug Moynihan (Harry Woods) to do away with him, but Eddie has his own problems being pursued by the man-chasing Miss Martin who won't take no for an answer from her "Romeo."

    The musical numbers for PALMY DAYS include: "Bend Down Sister" by Ballard MacDonald and Con Conrad (sung by Charlotte Greenwood and Goldwyn girls); "There's Nothing Too Good For My Baby" by Benny Davis, Harry Akst and Eddie Cantor (sung by Eddie Cantor in blackface); "My Honey Said Yes, Yes" by Cliff Friend (sung by Cantor/ performed by Goldwyn Girls); and "My Honey Said Yes, Yes" (finale reprise by Cantor and Greenwood). If the "My Honey Said Yes, Yes" score sounds familiar, it was later used for the 1981 Steve Martin musical, PENNIES FROM HEAVEN.

    Aside from two production numbers with the Busby Berkeley overhead camera shots and kaleidoscopic routines, trademarks that would make him famous, PALMY DAYS features several very funny comedy routines, including Greenwood giving Cantor a workout in the gymnasium, even at one point having him twisted in pretzel fashion like a contortionist; being offered a medicine ball with Cantor feeling it too big to swallow; and later being pursued by gangsters (Raft and Woods), hiding out into the company gym locker room while the girls prepare to take their daily swim, thus having Eddie disguising himself as one of the girls (looking almost amazingly like Jack Lemmon's cross dressing character in the 1959 comedy classic, SOME LIKE IT HOT), and being forced to strip by Helen Martin for a shower and a dip into the pool. (Watch Eddie get himself out of that!) The movie is highlighted with a comedic chase in the Clark bakery involving Eddie, Helen, Yolando and his gang over the $25,000 which is hidden in the dough of bread. The one brief scene in which Eddie tries to show off his operation to Mr. Clark (Spencer Charters), is a little inside humor lifted from their comedy routine in WHOOPEE. And let's not overlook a line uttered by Cantor during a séance early in the story, "There is a Minneapolis in heaven, just as there is a St. Paul."

    The chemistry between Eddie Cantor and Charlotte Greenwood is priceless. It's a pity they didn't do another movie together. In recent years, PALMY DAYS enjoyed some frequent cable television revivals briefly on Turner Network Television (TNT) in the early 1990s, the Nostalgia Channel, and on American Movie Classics during the season of 1992-93. It was distributed on video cassette, and one of the six package set of Cantor/Goldwyn musicals, but has since been discontinued, with the exception of ROMAN SCANDALS (1933) and KID MILLIONS (1934) which continued in video sale distribution for several years thereafter.

    PALMY DAYS would not rank as the American Film Institute's top 100 comedies of the twentieth century, but it's worth viewing, particularly due to Cantor's buffoonery that at times pre-dates the 1960s comedies of Jerry Lewis, but not to the extreme, and/or spotting some future film stars as George Raft (in a small role); watching the villainous Charles Middleton, five years before achieving fame as Ming the Merciless in the FLASH GORDON chaptered serials for Universal in 1936; and Betty Grable and Virginia Bruce, recognizable and visible in the opening dance routines. (***)
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    • Release date
      • October 3, 1931 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • På jakt efter en man
    • Filming locations
      • Samuel Goldwyn Studios - 7200 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Hollywood, California, USA
    • Production company
      • The Samuel Goldwyn Company
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      1 hour 17 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White

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