An Eddie Cantor Finding Aid

Clap hands, it’s Eddie Cantor’s birthday! In celebration we have spent all day sprucing up the Eddie Cantor section of Travalanche, and present you now with this handy finding aid to help you navigate your way around my two dozen articles on old Banjo Eyes. These are the posts:

Main Biographical Post

STAGE

Jean Bedini: Cantor’s Vaudeville Partner and Boss

Eddie Joins the Ziegfeld Follies

Eddie’s Broadway Vehicles

SCREEN

Eddie’s Silent Movies

Eddie’s Talkie Shorts

Glorifying the American Girl (1929)

Whoopee! (1930)

Palmy Days (1931)

The Kid from Spain (1932)

Roman Scandals (1933)

Kid Millions (1934)

Strike Me Pink (1936)

Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937)

Forty Little Mothers (1940)

Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)

Show Business (1944)

Hollywood Canteen (1944)

If You Knew Susie (1948)

The Eddie Cantor Story (1953)

RADIO

Bert Gordon a.k.a. The Mad Russian

Harry Einstein a.k.a. Parkyakarkus

Cantor’s Radio Work (pending)

TELEVISION

The Colgate Comedy Hour

Cantor’s TV variety work (pending)

OTHER

A Biography on Cantor by David Weinstein

For more on show business history,consult No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous, for more on silent movies please check out my book: Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube, and please stay tuned for the upcoming Electric Vaudeville: A Century of Radio and TV Variety.