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Roman Scandals is a 1933 American black-and-white pre-Code musical film starring Eddie Cantor, Ruth Etting, Gloria Stuart, Edward Arnold and David Manners. It was directed by Frank Tuttle. The film features a number of intricate production numbers choreographed by Busby Berkeley.
Roman Scandals: Directed by Frank Tuttle. With Eddie Cantor, Ruth Etting, Gloria Stuart, Edward Arnold. A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma.
Warren F. Cooper, the leading citizen of West Rome, is outraged to find Eddie, a beloved local "little guy," sleeping on the statue of the Empress Agrippa in the Museum of Roman Art, which Cooper donated to the town.
The plot kicks off with Eddie playing ‘Eddie’, a young, nice guy bum in the town of West Rome who unfortunately can’t make enough money to afford his own place. So he spends his nights at the Roman museum built by the town’s banker, Warren Finley Cooper (Willard Robertson).
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Roman Scandals. A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma.
Kicking off Film Forum's Busby Berkeley retrospective is Roman Scandals, the last of Berkeley's work for Samuel Goldwyn's production company and with vaudevillian Eddie Cantor. In 1933, Goldwyn set out to capitalize on the popularity of Roman epics by adapting George Bernard Shaw's Androcles and the Lion .
