KID MILLIONS

Kid Millions
Samuel Goldwyn / United Artists, 1934, B/W & Color, 90 minutes
Released November, 1934

Eddie Cantor's definitely one in a million in this riotous musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it. Don't miss the ice cream factory scene, done in early Technicolor. With Ethel Merman, George Murphy, Ann Sothern; look for Lucille Ball as a "Goldwyn Girl" and Tor Johnson as a torturer.

Produced by: Samuel Goldwyn
Directed by: Roy Del Ruth
Musical Numbers Directed by: Seymour Felix
Original Story and Screen Play by: Arthur Sheekman, Nat Perrin and Nunnally Johnson
Music and Lyrics by: Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn, Burton Lane and Harold Adamson
The song "Mandy" Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin
Piano Number presented by Jacques Fray and Mario Braggiotti
Musical Direction: Alfred Newman
Choreography: Seymour Felix
Art Direction: Richard Day
Costumes: Omar Kiam
Sound Recorded by: Vinton Vernon
Photography: Ray June
Special Effects: Ray Binger
Film Edited by: Stuart Heisler

Cast: Eddie Cantor [Eddie Wilson, Jr.], Ann Sothern [Joan Larrabee], Ethel Merman [Dot Clark], George Murphy [Jerry Lane], Jesse Block [Ben Ali], Eve Sully [Fanya], Berton Churchill [Col. Larrabee], Warren Hymer [Louie the Lug], Paul Harvey [Sheik Mulhulla], Otto Hoffman [Khoot], Doris Davenport [Toots], Edgar Kennedy [Herman], Stanley Fields [Oscar], Jack Kennedy [Pop], John Kelly [Adolph], Guy Usher [William Slade], Nicholas Brothers [Themselves], Stymie Beard [Stymie], Henry Kolker [Attorney], Tommy Bond [Tommy], Leonard Kibrick [Leonard], William Arnold [Steward], Harry C. Bradley [Bartender], Edward Peil Sr. [Assistant Bartender], Harry Ernest [Page Boy], Eddie Arden [Busboy], Ed Mortimer [Ship's Officer], Zack Williams, Everett Brown [Slaves], Fred Warren, Harrison Greene [Spielers], George Regas, Noble Johnson [Attendants], Lon Poff [Recorder], Constantine Romanoff, Tor Johnson [Torturers], Ivan Linow, Lalo Encinas, Budd Fine, Leo Willis, Larry Fisher [Warriors], Sam Hayes [Eddie's Announcer], Malcolm Waite, Bob Reeves [Trumpeteers], Clarence Muse [Col. Witherspoon], Steve Clemente, Art Mix, Silver Harr, M. Rourie, Bob Kortman, Robert Ellis [Desert Riders], Bobby Jordan [Tourist], Louise Carver [Native Woman], Theodore Lorch [Native Fakir], Bobbie La Manche [Native Boy], J. Macher, John Dowd, Charles D. Hall [Natives], Mickey Rentschler, Jacqueline Taylor, Carmencita Johnson, Patricia Ann Rambeau, Ada Mae Bender, Billy Seay, John Collum, Wally Albright [Children on Tug], Bess Flowers [Passenger on Ship], Lucille Ball, Bonnie Bannon, Irene Bentley, De Don Blunier, Mary Jane Carey, Lynne Carver, Mary Lou Dix, Helen Ferguson, Gail Goodson, Jane Hamilton, Betty-Joy Howard, Janice Jarratt, Vivian Keiffer, Mary Lange, Caryl Lincoln, Ruth Moody, Barbara Pepper, Wanda Perry, Virginia Reed, Charlotte Russell, Gwen Seager, Helen Wood [The 1934 Goldwyn Girls]

Musical Program: [0:00] Overture (played by Orchestra behind titles); [0:01] An Earful of Music (sung by Ethel Merman and The Goldwyn Girls); [0:10] When My Ship Comes In (sung by Eddie Cantor); [0:36] Your Head on My Shoulder (sung by Ann Sothern, George Murphy and Chorus); [0:37] Red Hot Rhythm (?) (short excerpt sung offscreen by Ethel Merman and Chorus behind montage); [0:38] I Want to Be a Minstrel Man (sung and danced by Harold Nicholas and The Goldwyn Girls); [0:52] Mandy (sung by Eddie Cantor, Ethel Merman, Ann Sothern, George Murphy, Harold Nicholas and The Goldwyn Girls; danced by the Nicholas Brothers, Eddie Cantor and The Goldwyn Girls); [0:58] Harem Dance (danced by The Goldwyn Girls); [1:03] Okay, Toots (sung by Eddie Cantor with The Goldwyn Girls); [1:23] Ice Cream Fantasy (Finale number in color - sung by Ethel Merman, Eddie Cantor, Doris Davenport, Warren Hymer and Childrens Chorus)