The assistant of a phony psychic leaves the fraudulent business and becomes an efficiency expert.The assistant of a phony psychic leaves the fraudulent business and becomes an efficiency expert.The assistant of a phony psychic leaves the fraudulent business and becomes an efficiency expert.
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- Mary
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- Fortune Teller
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- Goldwyn Girl
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- Swimmer
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- Goldwyn Girl
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- Goldwyn Girl
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- Goldwyn Girl
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- Party Guest
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- Goldwyn Girl
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- TriviaAmerican Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films 1931-1940 lists Ruth Etting as one of the Goldwyn Girls, but she does not appear in this film. AFI apparently confused her with Ruth Eddings, who does appear.
- GoofsIn the scene where Eddie Cantor sings "There's Nothing Too Good For My Baby" in blackface, the sign above the loud-speakers on the outside is misspelled: "GLORIFIYNG THE AMERICAN DOUGHNUT".
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Eddie Simpson: Love is grand, simply grand!/ I'm in love, so you'll understand/ Why I rave. It's hard to behave!/ She's so cute, she's so sweet,/ I consider it such a treat/ To do nice things for the one I adore/ Baby wants to shop and then/ I take her down to the five-and-ten/ There's nothing to good for my baby!/ Baby likes a limousine,/ I show her one in a magazine./ There's nothing too good for my baby! Baby wants lots of love?/ Baby gets lots of love!/ Baby wants petting? Baby gets petting!/ That's what I've plenty of!/ Do I give? Yes siree!/ I'm no fool, I just gave her me!/ There's nothing to good for my baby!/ Baby wants to shop and then/ I take her down to the five-and-ten./ There's nothing to good for my baby!/ Rainy nights/ We both stay in,/ But I do card tricks and Gunga Din./ There's nothing to good for my baby!/ Baby wants lots of love?/ Baby gets lots of love!/ Baby wants petting? Baby gets petting!/ That's what I've plenty of!/ For a kid, she's simply wild/ I let her play with my sister's child./ There's nothing too good for my ba-ba-ba-baby!/ Baby wants to shop and then/ I take her down to the five-and-ten./ There's nothing to good for my baby!/ We go out, on pleasure bent,/ I let her dunk to her heart's content!/ There's nothing too good for my baby!/ Baby wants lots of ya-da-da!/ Baby gets lots of ya-da-da!/ Baby wants vo-deo-doh? Baby gets vo-deo-doh!/ That's what I've plenty of!/ She wants a pearl, she told me once/ So I ate oysters for months and months./ There's nothing to good for my ba-ba-ba-baby!
- ConnectionsFeatured in Vito (2011)
- SoundtracksBend Down, Sister
(1931) (uncredited)
Music by Con Conrad
Lyrics by Ballard MacDonald and David Silverstein
Sung by Charlotte Greenwood
Danced by chorus
His innocent schnook character who turns the tables often on bigger and cleverer foes was finding real appeal with the movie going public. Cantor works for phony psychic Charles Middleton working all the special effects to convince Middleton's marks during séances that their dearly departed are actually communicating with them. One of Middleton's bigger suckers is bakery owner Spencer Charters who employs a flock of beautiful Goldwyn Girls as his bakers. Cantor who's been abused by Middleton decides to trip up one of his cons by getting a job at Charters's bakery, but Charters mistakes him for someone else and hires him as an efficiency expert. You have to love some of Cantor's brilliant ideas like sawing the corners of Charters's desk so that folks would not be tempted to linger awhile sitting on said corners and taking up his time.
Eddie also hooks up with Amazonian physical culturist Charlotte Greenwood who is always a delight. The two worked well together, they should have done more joint films. Charlotte also has the first musical number in the film Bend Down Sister or exercising with the Goldwyn Girls. Busby Berkeley did the choreography and while he hadn't really reached the creative heights as he did with Warner Brothers his style is unmistakable.
Cantor gets two numbers My Baby Said Yes Yes and There's Nothing Too Good For My Baby. Both are delivered in his quick tempo style, Michael Jackson had nothing on Eddie Cantor when it came to moving about on stage.
Of course Middleton is down, but not out. Cantor and Greenwood have a hilarious climax with Middleton and his two torpedoes Harry Woods and George Raft in the bakery. This was one of Raft's earliest films and he barely gets any dialog, but casting him as a gangster was definitely something he could always handle.
Palmy Days holds up well after more than 80 years, it's classic comedy is timeless and the film is great introduction to one of the funniest men of the last century Eddie Cantor.
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- Runtime1 hour 17 minutes
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