Eddie Cantor
Ali Baba
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Ali Baba Goes to Town is a 1937 American musical comedy film directed by David Butler and starring Eddie Cantor, Tony Martin, and Roland Young. Cantor plays a hobo named Aloysius "Al" Babson, who walks into the camp of a movie company that is making the Arabian Nights.
Ali Baba Goes to Town. A movie company is filming the "Arabian Nights" when a hobo enters their camp, falls asleep and dreams he's back in Baghdad as advisor to the Sultan. In a spoof of Roosevelt's New Deal, he organizes work programs, taxes the rich and abolishes the army.
Ali Baba Goes to Town. All Al Babson (Eddie Cantor) wants when he stumbles onto the set of a movie about Ali Baba is an autograph. Instead, he winds up with a head injury. Wanting to...
- Musical, Comedy, Fantasy
Cantor plays Al Babson, a star-struck movie fan who's headed for Hollywood to ogle stars when he stumbles upon a movie company making an Arabian Nights film in the desert. Working as an extra in the film, Al falls asleep and dreams his own Arabian fantasy.
Starring Eddie Cantor, Tony Martin, Roland Young, John Caradine, and Gypsy Rose Lee.
Overview. While visiting Hollywood a starstruck movie fan (Eddie Cantor) fantasizes about himself cast in an Arabian adventure. Director David Butler's comedy--with many songs--also features Tony Martin, Roland Young, Gypsy Rose Lee (billed as Rose Hovick), John Carradine, June Lang, Virginia Field, Charles Lane, The Peters Sisters and many big ...
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