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Palmy Days is a 1931 American Pre-Code musical comedy film written by Eddie Cantor, Morrie Ryskind, and David Freedman, directed by A. Edward Sutherland, and choreographed by Busby Berkeley (who makes a cameo appearance as a fortune teller). The film stars Eddie Cantor.
Eddie Cantor plays an assistant to a phony psychic who becomes an efficiency expert in an Art-Deco bakery. The film features songs, romance, and a plot involving a payroll robbery and a giant bread-slicer.
Brief Synopsis. Musical comedy antics in an art deco bakery (motto: "Glorifying the American Doughnut") with Eddie Cantor as an assistant to a phoney psychic, who is mistaken for an efficiency expert and placed in charge. Complications ensue when the psychic and his gang attempt to rub the payroll.
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Aug 4, 2015 · Product Description. Eddie Cantor, master of music and mirth, stars as Eddie Simpson, put-upon assistant to phony psychic Yolando (Charles Middleton). When Yoldano sets his sights upon A.B. Clark's (Spencer Charters) art deco bakery ("Glorifying the American Doughnut"), Eddie is accidentally mistaken for an efficiency expert.
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Palmy Days is a pre-Code film directed by A. Edward Sutherland and starring Eddie Cantor as an incompetent efficiency expert in a donut factory. The film features Busby Berkeley numbers, a love story, and a robbery plot.
- A. Edward Sutherland
Arts. Culture magazines. Palmy Days. views 2,905,312 updated. Palmy Days ★★½ 1931. Shy Eddie (Cantor) is involved with a phony medium, a scam involving a bakery, theft, romance, singing, and a disguise as a woman (the other bakery workers are the Goldwyn Girls, including Betty Grable ).
Purchase Palmy Days on digital and stream instantly or download offline. Eddie Cantor, master of music and mirth, stars as Eddie Simpson, put-upon assistant to phony psychic Yolando (Charles Middleton).
