New York-born Eddie Cantor was one of those hardworking, all-around performers, once common but now mostly parodied, who sang, danced, and told jokes all in the space of five minutes. Here’s an interesting 1923 DeForest Phonofilms clip showing a lively and voluble Cantor — who would have been 30 or 31 years old at the time — performing a bit of his vaudeville routine.
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Is it true that politically, Eddie Cantor was actually a Trot?