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Kid Millions

  • 19341934
  • PassedPassed
  • 1h 30m
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
546
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Eddie Cantor in Kid Millions (1934)
ComedyMusicalRomance
A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy (Eddie Cantor) who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but must go to Egypt to claim it.A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy (Eddie Cantor) who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but must go to Egypt to claim it.A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy (Eddie Cantor) who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but must go to Egypt to claim it.
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
546
YOUR RATING
    • Roy Del Ruth
    • Willy Pogany(Technicolor sequence)
    • Arthur Sheekman(original story and screen play)
    • Nat Perrin(original story and screen play)
    • Nunnally Johnson(original story and screen play)
  • Stars
    • Eddie Cantor
    • Ann Sothern
    • Ethel Merman
    • Roy Del Ruth
    • Willy Pogany(Technicolor sequence)
    • Arthur Sheekman(original story and screen play)
    • Nat Perrin(original story and screen play)
    • Nunnally Johnson(original story and screen play)
  • Stars
    • Eddie Cantor
    • Ann Sothern
    • Ethel Merman
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 19User reviews
    • 6Critic reviews
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    Ethel Merman, Eddie Cantor, KID MILLIONS, United Artists, 1934, **I.V.
    Lucille Ball, Bonnie Bannon, Irene Bentley, Dudone Blumier, Amelia Batchelor, and The 1934 Goldwyn Girls in Kid Millions (1934)
    "Kid Millions" Ethel Merman 1934 UA / **I.V.
    Eddie Cantor and Carmencita Johnson in Kid Millions (1934)
    Carl R. Botefuhr, Wally Albright, Carlena Beard, Matthew 'Stymie' Beard, Harold Belfer, Tommy Bond, Ann Bupp, Sonny Bupp, Tommy Bupp, John 'Uh huh' Collum, Dix Davis, Tim Davis, Jack Egger, Edith Fellows, Douglas Greer, Donald Haines, Ada Mae Bender, Carmencita Johnson, Cullen Johnson, Dickie Jones, Leonard Kibrick, Jacqueline Taylor, Mickey Martin, Patricia Ann Rambeau, Mickey Rentschler, Billy Seay, Buster Slaven, Virginia Weidler, Barbara Jean Wong, Maybelle Lee, Robert Tucker, Billy Tucker, and James Hoyt Jr. in Kid Millions (1934)
    Lucille Ball, Paulette Goddard, Bonnie Bannon, Irene Bentley, Dudone Blumier, Mary Jane Carey, Lynne Carver, Mary Lou Dix, Betty Dotson, Helen Ferguson, June Glory, Gail Goodson, Jane Hamilton, Betty-Joy Howard, Janice Jarrett, Vivian Keefer, Mary Lange, Caryl Lincoln, Shirley Lloyd, Mae Madison, Ruth Moody, Fayard Nicholas, Harold Nicholas, Barbara Pepper, Wanda Perry, Donna Mae Roberts, Charlotte Russell, Gwen Seager, Helen Wood, The Nicholas Brothers, Amelia Batchelor, Marguerite Caverley, Katherine Ferguson, and The 1934 Goldwyn Girls in Kid Millions (1934)
    Lucille Ball, Bonnie Bannon, Irene Bentley, Dudone Blumier, Mary Jane Carey, Lynne Carver, Harold Nicholas, Amelia Batchelor, and Marguerite Caverley in Kid Millions (1934)
    Lucille Ball, Bonnie Bannon, Irene Bentley, Dudone Blumier, Mary Jane Carey, Lynne Carver, Mary Lou Dix, Harold Nicholas, Amelia Batchelor, Marguerite Caverley, and The 1934 Goldwyn Girls in Kid Millions (1934)
    Harold Nicholas in Kid Millions (1934)
    Harold Nicholas in Kid Millions (1934)
    Harold Nicholas in Kid Millions (1934)
    Harold Nicholas in Kid Millions (1934)

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    Eddie Cantor
    Eddie Cantor
    • Eddie Wilson Jr.
    Ann Sothern
    Ann Sothern
    • Joan Larrabee
    Ethel Merman
    Ethel Merman
    • Dot Clark
    George Murphy
    George Murphy
    • Jerry Lane
    Berton Churchill
    Berton Churchill
    • Col. Harrison Larrabee
    • (as Burton Churchill)
    Warren Hymer
    Warren Hymer
    • Louie the Lug
    Paul Harvey
    Paul Harvey
    • Sheik Mulhulla
    Jesse Block
    • Ben Ali
    Eva Sully
    • Princess Fanya
    Otto Hoffman
    Otto Hoffman
    • Khoot
    Stanley Fields
    Stanley Fields
    • Oscar Wilson
    Edgar Kennedy
    Edgar Kennedy
    • Herman Wilson
    Jack Kennedy
    • Pop Wilson
    John Kelly
    John Kelly
    • Adolph Wilson
    Doris Davenport
    Doris Davenport
    • Nora aka 'Toots'
    The Nicholas Brothers
    The Nicholas Brothers
    • Dance Specialty on Ship
    • (as Nicholas Brothers)
    The 1934 Goldwyn Girls
    • Show Girls
    Wally Albright
    Wally Albright
    • Little Boy in Ice Cream Number
    • (uncredited)
      • Roy Del Ruth
      • Willy Pogany(Technicolor sequence) (uncredited)
      • Arthur Sheekman(original story and screen play)
      • Nat Perrin(original story and screen play)
      • Nunnally Johnson(original story and screen play)
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    • Trivia
      The music of I Want to Be a Minstrel Man, sung by Harold Nicholas and chorus girls (Lucille Ball is clearly visible at 39:10 for a few seconds), was reused by composer Burton Lane in Royal Wedding (1951) as You're All the World to Me, where Astaire dances on the floor, walls and ceiling.
    • Quotes

      Dot Clark: I'm your mother, Junior.

      Eddie Wilson Jr.: You are my mother?

      Dot Clark: That's right.

      Eddie Wilson Jr.: How old are you, Mommy?

      Dot Clark: 19.

      Eddie Wilson Jr.: 19?

      Dot Clark: That's right.

      Eddie Wilson Jr.: I'm 25 and you're 19. Maybe I'm YOUR mother.

    • Connections
      Featured in Biography: The Nicholas Brothers: Flying High (1999)
    • Soundtracks
      An Earful of Music
      (1934) (uncredited)

      Music by Walter Donaldson

      Lyrics by Gus Kahn

      Sung by Ethel Merman and chorus

    User reviews19

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    9/10
    Eddie Gets His Millions
    In a recent and long overdue biography of Eddie Cantor it turns out that Cantor's daughter Marilyn was responsible for the casting of Ethel Merman in this and a subsequent film of her father's. The Cantors and the San Goldwyns saw each other socially quite a bit and young Marilyn Cantor became a fan of Merman's after seeing her on the Broadway stage. She lobbied with Goldwyn to get Merman opposite her father and the man relented.

    Cantor and Merman did work well together here and in Strike Me Pink. Eddie is playing his usual bullied schnook who is living with what I guess would be considered a foster family on the New York docks. But it turns out he's the son of an archaeologist who went to Egypt and went missing, but who found a reputed treasure. All he has to do is claim the treasure over in Egypt. Of course there are some other people who think they have a claim.

    Berton Churchill and daughter Ann Sothern helped finance the expedition and Ethel Merman claims a common-law relationship, a scheme cooked up by her hoodlum boy friend Warren Hymer.

    All of these people perform well and I have to say that Warren Hymer who never exactly played intellectuals on the screen actually dumbs HIS usual character down for the film. But I have to say that the man who seemed to be enjoying himself most playing the villainous Arab sheik is character actor Paul Harvey. He overacts outrageously in his part and I'm sure he was grateful for the false beard and mustache he had to wear to contain the grins he must have had on his face.

    Playing the Harvey's daughter and her beloved are the vaudeville team of Eva Sully and Jesse Block in their only screen appearance. I'm betting Cantor was responsible for their casting. Eva in her harem outfit and Jewish accent develops a crush on Cantor who's who'd rather be boiled in the sheik's oil than marry her. But that's part of the whole wonderfully silly plot.

    A whole host of song writing talents contributed to this film, Irving Berlin, Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn and Burton Lane and Harold Adamson. Some sharp ears might recognize a Lane tune that was revived with a different lyric by Alan Jay Lerner and danced to by Fred Astaire in Royal Wedding then called You're All the World To Me.

    There is also one of the strangest minstrel numbers ever shot on screen where no one but Cantor is in blackface. During it he has to dance with the Nicholas Brothers and I'm sure in the primitive minds back then it was felt he'd better look like them. He shouldn't have tried because Fayard and Harold dance him right off the screen.

    Other than the minstrel number, Kid Millions is one of the best musicals from out of the Thirties and another showcase of the talented Eddie Cantor.
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      • November 10, 1934 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
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      • Calabasas, California, USA
    • Production company
      • The Samuel Goldwyn Company
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