Eddie Cantor- My Baby Just Cares For Me (2)

Check out the sweet dance moves! And yes, he's in blackface. Think what you'd like, but please, for the love of god, don't shoot the messenger.

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Film & Animation

Tags:

• Eddie
• Cantor
• Whoopee!
• two-strip
• technicolor

[WSenator1]

If you want a STARK contrast to this clip, check out Nina Simone's version of this song on YouTube.

[voglesque89]

@WSenator1 Nina Simone is pretty great

[RobbieTyler1]

MY BABYS NO GILBERT FAN... (John Gilbert American Actor died age 36 in 1936 of a heart attack. He suffered terribly when "talkies" came out due to having a funny voice put his name in youtube to hear him)

RONALD COLEMANS NOT HER MAN ( English actor died in 1958 at 67)

MY BABY DON'T CARE FOR LAWRENCE TIBBETT (American opera singer 1896 - 1960)

BUCK ROGERS IS NOT HER STYLE (popular sci- fi character) AND EVEN CHEVALIERS SMILE (Maurice Chevalier 1888-1972 was a French actor & singer)

[voglesque89]

@hcig I am not going to grant validity to a comparison between breakfast cereal leprechauns and the history of racial portrayance in american entertainment. What the original complaint would be similar to is me, for example, being offended by troll dolls because they're iconic of scandinavian culture. I'm all for keeping this argument grounded outside of fairy tale, which is why I took issue with the original poster making light of how blackface makes some people feel.

[CarlDuke]

Wonderful post. Eddie at his peak, and at that time few could equal his brilliance at comedy or in song.

[ajabrams]

In reference to one of the comments below--Eddie is singing "Bud Rogers is not her man" not Buck Rogers. The lyric refers to Buddy Rogers, a popular juvenile romantic lead at the time this film was made. Rogers was married to Mary Pickford.

[mineurbizness]

@RayDAider so sorry about your feelings theres no option in this u would have to get over it...to much money is being made on the name brand cereal

[ls3033]

@RayDAider I'm Irish too, but no. What would be the same is if lucky charms portrayed the Irish monkeyman caricatures that used to be common in Victorian England. (look that up if you don't know what it is) But that is not the case--please, learn from the history of oppression that the Irish people have suffered and understand that is a reason to EMPATHIZE with racial oppression, not to dismiss it.

[jknuttel]

@RobbieTyler1 Thanks for this info. A minor correction: There is no "e" in Ronald Colman's last name.

[jarsonist]

@voglesque89 Well yes it is! It's the same thing! Grow 0up or get the fuck out? The micks, the krauts, the paddys, the wops, the guineas, the polacks, the frogs, the HUNS! Fuck off, you moron!

[fromthesidelines]

Keep in mind that it wasn't "offensive" at that time for musical comedy stars such as Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson, George Jessel, et. al., to perform in "blackface" in vaudeville, on Broadway [as Eddie did in the original production of "Whoopee!']...and movies.

[maxiemom1]

@RobbieTyler1 Just for the record, John Gilbert' did NOT have a funny voice (ever seen "Queen Christina"? He sounds a lot like Joseph Cotton!). He was the victim of a vindictive L. B. Mayer who DELIBERATELY had the treble on his microphone turned up so his voice would sound funny... Also watch his "Romeo and Juliet" scene with Norma Shearer in the "Hollywood Revue" from 1929. which PROVES his voice was just fine. That story needs to DISAPPEAR!

[GooglFascists]

@baghend Don't EVER accuse our beloved Eddie of racism! He had a young

Sammy Davis Jr. on his TV show in the 50s and after a dance number Cantor

embraced Davis & wiped Davis' brow on camera. The sponsors threatened to

cancel Cantor's show, and his answer was to HOLD Sammy Davis over as a

guest for TWO MORE WEEKS.

Eddie Cantor was a national treasure and there's never been another like him.

If he was around today he would be a strident voice against the police state

advancing in America