Okay Toots (1934)

[woofer32]

I love Eddie Cantor, great music. This is one of my favourite clips,  thank you for making this available. Harry Roy covered this song but I prefer this version.

[badnolar]

Osama was so rad in this.

[greekgal82]

Thanks for posting! Love watching this timeless classic... :D

[SatchmoSings]

My parents were teens when Goldwyn made his films with Danny Kaye but since I never grew up with neither Kaye nor Cantor when these films were first released, I vastly prefer Goldwyn-Cantor.

[spagandtuna]

Loved this number!! Didn't like Kid Millions first time out, but it does get better second time thanks to stuff like this!!

[Buddykeaton]

Is Lucille Ball the one with the stupid looking smile on the left side of the screen?

[gnativerson]

Eve Sully was so beautiful and funny that she stands out - terrific film making and Eddie Cantor - not even the opera guys hold anything over his singing :^)

[z978ady]

He is flat chested.

[susannreno]

Eddie Cantor was just about the greatest entertainer who ever lived. And certainly about the cutest. Keep posting those Cantor tunes. They are great.

[blinko656]

@susannreno He could sing dance and act. Clooney can't do that.

[LKayL1]

One of my favourite show tunes!

[neatoauctions]

If you look very, very closely, you may notice that some of the girls are D-cuppers!!

Wa!Hoo!!!

Yeah, and Lucille Ball's tummy is ironing-board flat! (A kissing tummy!)

[kerrybush000]

I love this. Eddie Cantor couldn't be more adorable.

[rrgallo]

As a kid I saw what I think is one of Eddie Cantor's movies. Don't remember much but I remember a big scene in which the characters eat and drink huge milkshakes on super high stools..Does anybody know if it is one of his movies and the name?

[neatoauctions]

The film is "Kid Millions" (1934). Cantor's goal in that flick is to own an ice cream factory. After making-off with a load of treasure, Eddie flies from the Middle East (in a single engine plane and presumably on one tank of gas) back to NYC where he buys/builds the factory of his dreams.

Uniquely, Kid Millions starts in B&W yet ends in color - five-years before creators of The Wizard of Oz would pull a similar stunt.

[rrgallo]

Thanks a lot. I had had those images in my mind for at least 30 years and never knew the name of the movie.

[neatoauctions]

Glad to be of service.

As you might have already seen, a clip of that scene can be found here on YouTube.

I watched it again recently and I'm genuinely confused: How was it that the films producers were able to safely hoist children two-stories high on those stools? It certainly didn't look safe and must have presented an engineering challenge which couldn't have been inexpensive to accomplish.

[rrgallo]

It a nice scene and after all this years i still remembered the big bellies. And yes...The technical side of the stool scene looks expensive and not safe but I guess Mr. cantor's movies made enough money to justify the expense and about the danger...I guess they ( parents and children) just assumed as part of what they were doing...But it is a nicely choreographed and realized scene. Thanks again!

[bubble22455]

wow so so old

[terminalsigma]

So old... yet so great!

[percyfurler]

Send Eddie to the Middle East. Problems solved.

[4EverDarling]

Was Lucille Ball the one on the left that took his hat off at 1:28? She's so great to see where she began before becomming such a huge legend.

[daris89]

yea it was her

[LKayL]

I love this song!

[GrenvilleT]

This is a wonderful Vaudeville act! Eddie is a great star.

[1singlet]

these are sure interesting!

[Dutchfan33]

The Goldwyn girls 2.24 - 2.29 are from eft to right: Wanda Perry [1917-1985] ,Lucille Ball [1911-1989] ,Mary Lou Dix [1914-1963] and Lynne Carver [1909-1955]

[Dutchfan33]

Other Goldwyn girls:2.54--3.00 :Charlotte Russell [1912-2002] [left] and Jane Hamilton [1915-2004] [right]

3.01-3.04: Mary Lange [1913-1973] [Left]

[KidMillions]

I think June Hamilton is my favorite. :)

And the girl on the right 3:06-3:12. Eddie also looks at her longer than necessary, if he's supposed to be thinking about Nora...

[Dutchfan33]

Forty years later,in 1974,Lucille Ball was filming the movie "Mame".One of the extra's was her former goldwyn-girl-colleague,Wanda Perry.

On the set,Ball recognized Perry immediately,and told her that she was "very happy to be working with her agian".

[stjn00]

Thanks Dutchfan! That's what I call information! Excellent!

[Dutchfan33]

I saw this movie "Kid Millions",a few years ago.

I recognized Lucille Ball as one of the Goldwyn-girls,but I started to wonder what happened to the other Goldwyngirls.

I started my search,and found out that a lot of these girls had very interesting lives and careers.

[Dutchfan33]

2.46 -253 are from left to right:Wanda Perry, Mary Lou Dix ,Lynne Carver, Helen Wood...[The girl on the far right,I don't recognize.

[blinko656]

@Dutchfan33 How cool was that for her. WOW..

[honeybeeisme]

Wonderful! Eddie is just fantastic! Five stars!

[solarvegan]

I love the song. And the fact that Eddie performed it made it even better. Funny scene too!