Eddie Cantor

On stage 7 productions, 24 years

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Worked with more than once10 names

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Also credited on1 work

Ziegfeld Follies

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In the literature8 passages

• Eddie Cantor (Carnegie Hall, March 21, 1950, limited engagement of one performance)ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• This one-man show with Eddie Cantor was subtitled “My Forty Years in Show Business”; the legendary Broadway comic was accompanied by pianists George Tibboth and Arthur Siegel, the latter of whom composed music for a number of the era’s revues (including New Faces of 1952 ).ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
• JANET GARI: My father would say, “There is no such thing as a bad audience. You just haven’t got to them yet.” Eddie Cantor loved his audiences as much as they loved him. He and Jimmy Durante started out together as singing waiters in Coney Island. They sang song requests, and people would always try to stump them. “How about singing ‘Sta…ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• Eddie Cantor did the bulk of his work on Broadway in the Ziegfeld Follies , where he became good friends with W. C. Fields, Will Rogers, Fanny Brice. And then there was a twelve-year absence that ended Christmas Night 1941, when Banjo Eyes opened. The war had begun just a few weeks before and it was the first musical to open on Broadway s…ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• A big crowd outside the theater waited for Eddie Cantor’s family to arrive. There were so many of us, we took up two cabs. And as we got out, the crowd screamed: “There’s Ida! There’s Ida!” Then they counted, “One! Two! Three! Four! Five!” as each of my four sisters and I stepped out.ebooks/Frommer, Myrna Katz & Frommer, Harvey/It Happened on Broadway_ An Oral History of the Great White Way - Myrna Katz Frommer & Harvey Frommer.txt
• Cast: Marilyn Miller, Eddie Cantor, W. C. Fields, Will Rogers, Harry Kelly, Ann Pennington, Lillian Lorraine, Savoy & Brennan, Fairbanks Twinsebooks/Green, Stanley/Broadway Musicals, Show By Show - Seventh Edition - Stanley Green & Cary Ginell.txt

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