Eddie Cantor

So he's on The Today Show, and they, uh, Bryant Gumbel goes to a pre-recorded segment where they're describing Jerry Lewis.

But what they're showing is this clip from Sammy Petrillo showing up on The Eddie Cantor Show a few months after he had already made his debut on The Colgate Comedy Hour.

And Sammy comes on looking exactly like Jerry, and, uh, Eddie Cantor's in a bed, and he gives him a thermometer, and takes his temperature.

And then Sammy eats it, and then looks at the camera, and goes, "I like it.

I like it." And walks out the door.

It was not Jerry Lewis.

It was Sammy Petrillo, a kid that I found walking on 53rd Street here in New York.

And I brought him out to Hollywood to work in a sketch with Dean and I, and then he worked with Eddie Cantor two weeks later.

People had seen sound, um, used very often in short films.

So De Forest Phonofilm had had, uh, very short films that had famous music stars like Eddie Cantor or even President Coolidge was on a Phonofilm making a short speech.

It didn't have that natural narrative immersive quality that the feature films of the nineteen twenties did.

So you can see that this idea of putting a play into a sound film really does something like that.

Movie stars, he, he brought them in and gave them free room and board.

Uh, Eddie Cantor, Johnny Weissmuller.

They were both huge stars in their day.

Eddie sang Making Whoopee, though probably not at The San.

Uh, I would have to say, uh, uh, uh, Leslie Gore.

And I would have to say, um, hmm, hmm, Eddie Cantor.

But that's only right now.

Yeah.

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Was there a big crowd there, Jack? Oh, sure.

Everybody was there; Joan Crawford, Eddie Cantor, Hedy Lamarr.

Oh, a whole flock of them.

Oh, boy, Jack, do you know Joan Crawford and Hedy Lamarr?

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