description
Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.
cast

Eddie Cantor
Eddie Pink

Ethel Merman
Joyce Lennox

Sally Eilers
Claribel Higg

Harry Parke
Parkyakarkus

William Frawley
Mr. Copple

Helen Lowell
Hattie 'Ma' Carson

Gordon Jones
Butch Carson

Brian Donlevy
Vance

Jack La Rue
Mr. Thrust

Sunnie O'Dea
Sunnie

Dona Drake
Mademoiselle Fifi

Edward Brophy
Killer

Don Brodie
Mr. Marsh

Stanley Blystone
Miller

Duke York
Smiley

Charles C. Wilson
Hardie

Agnes Anderson
Club Lido Patron (uncredited)
Reviews
CinemaSerf
June 19, 2022This is quite a fun, gentle, comedy that sees Eddie Cantor play "Eddie Pink"; a rather feeble dry-cleaner who get's picked upon by the local youth. He sends off for a sort of Charles Atlas course for cowardly lions that will give him courage and before he knows it he is running best pal Butch's mother's "Dreamland" amusement arcade - and has to face up to the local mobsters keen to get in on the act. Add to his troubles his infatuation with charismatic, slightly manipulative "Joyce Lennox" (Ethel Merman) who belts out a couple half decent Harold Arlen numbers along the way and you just know it's going to be heavy going for our timid hero. It's not laugh out loud, and the story is pretty predictable but Cantor and Merman play well together and the film hangs nicely as an enjoyable, if maybe 20 minutes too long, afternoon feature.
released year
January 24, 1936
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director

Norman Taurog
Chicago, Illinois, USAcast

Eddie Cantor
Eddie Pink

Ethel Merman
Joyce Lennox

Sally Eilers
Claribel Higg

Harry Parke
Parkyakarkus

William Frawley
Mr. Copple

Helen Lowell
Hattie 'Ma' Carson

Gordon Jones
Butch Carson

Brian Donlevy
Vance

Jack La Rue
Mr. Thrust

Sunnie O'Dea
Sunnie

Dona Drake
Mademoiselle Fifi

Edward Brophy
Killer

Don Brodie
Mr. Marsh

Stanley Blystone
Miller

Duke York
Smiley

Charles C. Wilson
Hardie

Agnes Anderson
Club Lido Patron (uncredited)
Reviews
CinemaSerf
June 19, 2022This is quite a fun, gentle, comedy that sees Eddie Cantor play "Eddie Pink"; a rather feeble dry-cleaner who get's picked upon by the local youth. He sends off for a sort of Charles Atlas course for cowardly lions that will give him courage and before he knows it he is running best pal Butch's mother's "Dreamland" amusement arcade - and has to face up to the local mobsters keen to get in on the act. Add to his troubles his infatuation with charismatic, slightly manipulative "Joyce Lennox" (Ethel Merman) who belts out a couple half decent Harold Arlen numbers along the way and you just know it's going to be heavy going for our timid hero. It's not laugh out loud, and the story is pretty predictable but Cantor and Merman play well together and the film hangs nicely as an enjoyable, if maybe 20 minutes too long, afternoon feature.
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