A simple filmed performance featuring Cantor, done up in his stage minstrel makeup, allegedly at the Ziegfeld Theatre Roof Garden, but actually filmed on a soundstage at the Paramount Astoria studio.
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Eddie Cantor as Self
Richard Dix as Self
Mary Eaton as Self
Oscar Shaw as Self
Eddie Elkins as Self
Joseph Santley Director
United States 04 May 1929
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