Ziegfeld Style Nightclub Act from 1929 (Part One)

[kalash12345]

1:20 - 2:51

[dobrov1]

Thanks for uploading this SO MUCH. I really appreciate!

[psperrazza]

i believe this video was from the rooftop theater at The New AmsterDam

[TVWriterGuy]

Would give my arm for one of those light fixtures.

[Percival892]

Seconding "Thats normal womens legs." The problem is that if these women were around today, I'd be in big trouble with my wife. No joke.

[piratecaptaincane]

Izzy Izkowitz! I can hardly believe it. I should live so long. Such a good boy and a great actor. What ever happened to variety (vaudeville)?

[jrider4]

Anyone know the name/composer of the song the "12 famous dancing girls" are dancing to?

[perfectjazz78]

@jrider4 I think it's 'Alabamy Bound'

[antoniod]

Part of this was allegedly in 3-D.

[onebaud]

I am old enough to have performed in blackface on a stage. I was very young then and had no idea that it could hurt any one. I am so glad that period of history is over.

[TVWriterGuy]

@onebaud re: performing on stage. Did you perform in variety or vaudeville?

[MrHendrix1959]

this is what women should look like not the skinny bitches you see today

[impCaesarAvg]

Eddie Cantor was a talented performer, but blackface sure looks stupid. I'm glad it was out of fashion by the time I was born.

[paulj0557]

I just don't know what I'd do without these wonderful old films. Some people out there might think that these gals are over weight. These gals worked constantly and what you are looking at is solid muscle! Look at the 30's honies, just a matter of taste really, but the chorus girls in those films did a lot of standing around. Still though I think they are the most desirable females I have ever laid my eyes on.

[skot66]

2 people have no clue...

[rogharm]

i live near the paramount long island studios. now known as kaufman astoria studios in astoria queens nyc. great post. love it ROGHARM

[serg549999]

perfectjazz78,this video in 3d??????i see that in wikipedia/

[peterjohndean]

They all had fat legs .

[cushtichavi]

@peterjohndean no that's normal no size '0' thing from nowadays.

[cushtichavi]

@peterjohndean Thats normal womens legs

[blacsouljah]

@cushtichavi

Right. Where did we go wrong thinking otherwise?

[Aquired2]

@peterjohndean Ehm. No.

[Gaygarious]

@peterjohndean Styles were different then, no bony gals!

[bouncerhiphop]

good stuff :)

[WinnieMullins]

Oh Mr. Zigfeld was such a wonderful man. Don't get me wrong, he could be strict, but if he liked you, he was a true gentleman. I loved those days in the chorus.

[ManilaSyndicate]

Great historical clip.

Eddie Cantor was a good performer, and he looked funny in blackface. They should bring blackface back to the mainstream and be used by talented entertainers.

[bambizzoozled]

Have you seen Tropic Thunder?

[bigsexyshaq]

You're making history too, feyd69. Aren't we all?

[feyd69]

I appreciate all that YouTube and supporters like you, 'perfectjazz78' have to offer. You're making history! Thank you.

[chalastay51]

Great to watch, was Lucille Ball in any of these?

[mookindahouse]

Lucy's not in this. She does appear w/ Cantor as a Goldwyn Girl in Roman Scandals and Kid Millions

[russo76]

Wild.

Blackface was so strange of a stage device by the 1920s in NYC and in vaudeville. Cantor is not even doing any racial roleplaying. He is just doing himself with blackface on.

But Cantor was a strange blackface performer ... less minstrel, more Jazz Age, just some weird sort of mask.

Fasinating to see this ... says volumes about the history of popular entertainment.

[Belonginghouse]

Eddie Cantor was probably in blackface because the Midnight Frolics opened following the curtain call at the Amsterdam Theatre. Zeigfeld featured his headliners in the nightclub upstairs. In Whoopee, Cantor ends the show in Blackface. There would have been no time to clean up. He didn't always perform that way.

[perfectjazz78]

Probably not, this was as STAGED Midnight Frolic Filmed at Paramount East Coast Studios in Long Island.

[JAVMAN83]

Back when America had some class...I was born in 1965, about 60 years too late for my tastes...glad to see such history come to life on YouTube.

[sigclu]

The older you get the sweeter the memories. I can remember going to see the Eddie Cantor Story in the 50's with my grandfather. Youtube does wonders for us old farts. It's nice to see the likes of Cantor and Jolson, but to revive a memory of a time with my grandfather is priceless.

[betteroffsingle]

Sigclu ...

How right you are. And I recall seeing it with my grandmother, and that's when I became a fan of he and Jolson. Lifelong!

My grandma was a girlhood friend of Sophie Tucker btw. And yeah, heaven bless Youtube.

Wonder how long we'll be able to enjoy same.

You know, soon as enuff find some get pleasure, all fall down and go boom.

Cheers.

[MidnightAndLulu]

Eeee...with all the perky energy of the 1920's entertainment scene, I'm glad some forms of entertainment have been phased out...like utterly ridiculous makeup that says so much about societal naivete. To think this would've actually been considered a compliment to black performers of the era!

[lindyhoppers]

Nice to hear the opening tune "A Precious Little Thing Called Love", the theme song from the film "The Shopworn Angel" (1928) with Gary Cooper.

Then you can see near the Paul Whiteman sign, one on the left advertising Richard Barthelmess' movie "WEARY RIVER", the one underneath is "Sins of the Fathers" with Emil Jannings.

The New Amsterdam Theatre is still there!

[umLunguUSA]

I get a strange feeling knowing that some odd 80 years ago, this happened somewhere.

[AnotherGoddess]

You Tube is sooooooooooo wonderful. I never even imagined that I'd have a chance to see all this wonderful stuff.

[dancebandfan]

I quite agree!!You tube has allowed things to be viewed that otherwise it is very unlikely would have ever been shown anywhere else!

[Montavanni]

Absolutely! Thank you.

[scenicdesigner]

A valuable record of the man who helped create the screen actors' guild, and was one of it's first presidents. But, to be a stickler, I don't think it's actually the upstairs cabaret. I rehearsed there once, and it had theatre seats. My guess is that Paramount filmed this in Queens, where Kaufman-Astoria is today. But thanks for posting this. As I say, it's a great document of a great era.

[solarvegan]

You're most likely right. The opening credits state that this film was "Produced at Paramount Long Island Studios." After hearing "I Faw Down and Go Boom" so many, many times it was wonderful to finally actually see him perform this number.

[Montavanni]

Thanks for posting this wonderful, historic stuff . . . was actually wondering if this was Ziegfeld's rooftop club . . . more than likely a studio rendering of it. However, just to see the New Amsterdam and its marquee was thrilling. What happened to the class NYC used to have, eh? Too bad. But wonderful that these clips exist and are exhibited here.

[solarvegan]

Now I've finally gotten to see with my own eyes the places and people Eddie had written about in his autobiographies.

[31512299]

Eddie Cantor is the Man!

[bigsexyshaq]

This is a taste of culture that should be valuable to anyone. Thanks for uploading!!!