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...MILLIONS -- When you pack into one film Eddie Cantor, Ann Sothern, t h e gags of Sheekman, Perrin and Johnson, the songs of Donaldson, K a h n, Lane, Adamson and Berlin, the dances of Seymour Felix, and the color combinations of Willy Pogany you have a Goldwynesque extravaganza that will wow you for a full hour and a half without the slightest bit of effort on your part. Despite the fact that some of the gags are already great-grandparents, Director Roy Del Ruth puts the products of these stars together into such a truly creditable production that...
...highest-paid funnyman in the U. S. and a member of the Cinema Code Authority with President Emeritus Lowell of Harvard, his performances require such elaborate preparations that he can appear in only one a year. William Anthony McGuire, George S. Kaufman, Robert Sherwood, George Oppenheimer, Arthur Sheekman, Nat Perrin and Cantor himself collaborated on story or dialog for Roman Scandals. Several thousand showgirls received screen-tests for the chorus. The picture cost $1,100,000. The result is an extraordinary rigmarole containing everything from chariot races to a torch song by Ruth Etting...
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