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Roman Scandals: Directed by Frank Tuttle. With Eddie Cantor, Ruth Etting, Gloria Stuart, Edward Arnold. A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma.
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- Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
- Frank Tuttle
- 1933-12-29
Roman Scandals is a 1933 American black-and-white pre-Code musical film starring Eddie Cantor, Ruth Etting, Gloria Stuart, Edward Arnold and David Manners. It was directed by Frank Tuttle. The film features a number of intricate production numbers choreographed by Busby Berkeley.
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“The empress Agrippa, the one I was sleeping with, was his wife.”The chief of police is named ‘Charles A. Pratt’.Cantor’s reaction to briefly holding a baby seems to indicate that it pooped itself.Lots of skin. Eddie accidentally vacuums a woman’s dress off, and moves a curtain to cover her only to reveal a woman showering.Lucky they weren’t Scottish or they may have let him keep going.Tells a Roman soldier to put on some pants and then playfully flips up his skirt.“I can take care of the children. If there are no children, I can take care of that.”Eddie Cantor has never really been my cup of tea. If you think I’m exaggerating, you can check out my Kid From Spain or Whoopee!review. Cantor was a big box office draw in the early thirties, both on Broadway and on the screen. His films often slip into trainwrecks of overblown inanity, and, because Cantor’s fondness and fame for blacking up always...
This film constitutes one of the earliest appearances of Lucille Ball on film debut. (She’s hard to miss.) You can read more about her lengthy friendship with Eddie Cantor over at A Trip Down Memor...
This film is available from Amazon.Roman Scandals. Also today: a special illustrated holiday edition of Ms. 35, Cinephile Gift Guide. Kicking off Film Forum's Busby Berkeley retrospective is Roman Scandals, the last of Berkeley's work for Samuel Goldwyn 's production company and with vaudevillian Eddie Cantor.
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A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden Rome, where he gets mixed up with court intrigue and a murder plot against the Emperor. Frank Tuttle. Director. George S. Kaufman. Story. Robert E. Sherwood.
