Word: cantors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eddie Cantor is himself but this time no more fantastic than the rest of the cast. Evidently unsatisfied with his aquaplane-ski-chariot ride in "Roman Scandals," Mr. Cantor again falls asleep to dream of the past in terms of the present, a la Conecticut Yaunkee, and to ride on a soaring carpet...
Paul G. Hamberg '38; Arthur Cantor '40; Sherwood D. Fox '39; Alfred R. Holowenko '38; George S. Kurland '40; Philip Levine '39; Nathan Myers '38; Harry Pollard '39; Robert H. Salk '38; and Charles Zibbell...
...Baba Goes to Town (Twentieth Century-Fox) transports taw-eyed, prancing little Eddie Cantor to ancient Bagdad, where he physics the ailing realm of Sultan Roland Young with panaceas borrowed from the New Deal. Haroun-al-Cantor's venture into political satire is tuneful, gay, imaginatively written, generously produced. The cumulative effect of its guying would not nettle even the income tax bureau, for Funnyman Cantor pokes lightly at an array of straw...
...authors (Gene Towne, Graham Baker, Gene Fowler), borrowing the Connecticut Yankee formula, have brought it aptly up to date. Cantor is a star-struck autograph hunter on his way to Hollywood for a rubberneck vacation among the famous faces. He stumbles on the desert location of a cinema company making an episode from the Arabian Nights, becomes an extra, falls asleep in the jar reserved for Ali Baba...
...Cantor joined Twentieth Century-Fox in September 1936 under a three-picture arrangement for a reputed $1,000,000, after having spent the previous seven years with Samuel Goldwyn and United Artists. He bought his release from the Goldwyn contract when Goldwyn failed to buy Three Men on a Horse for him. AH Baba Goes to Town is his first film under the Twentieth Century-Fox agreement...