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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.
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- Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
- Frank Tuttle
- 1933-12-29
Roman Scandals did, however, mark her first starring role in a feature film. In a modern interview, Berkeley stated that Paulette Goddard was one of the Goldwyn girls, and that the Goldwyn girls in the slave market scenes were completely nude under their long blonde wigs.
- Frank Tuttle, Busby Berkeley, Ralph Cedar
- Eddie Cantor
Roman Scandals is pretty dopey on a couple of levels. Let’s be honest, outdoor Rome probably doesn’t resemble Southern California quite as much as this movie would have you believe, and, as noted above, the racial politics are pretty much everything bad about the 30s in one solid package.
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A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden Rome,...
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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. Shaw refused to give permission, so ...
