Kid Millions (1934)
HE HAD PLENTY OF DOLLARS AND NO SENSE!
A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.
- Date of release
- 1934-11-10
- TMDB
- 6.7 / 10 (7)
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Music, Comedy, Drama
- Director
- Roy Del Ruth, Willy Pogany
Casting
- Eddie Cantor — Eddie Wilson Jr.
- Ann Sothern — Joan Larrabee
- Ethel Merman — Dot Clark
- George Murphy — Jerry Lane
- Berton Churchill — Harrison Larrabee
- Warren Hymer — Louie the Lug
- Paul Harvey — Shiek Mulhulla
- Jesse Block — Ben Ali
- Eva Sully — Princess Fanya
- Otto Hoffman — Khoot
- Stanley Fields — Oscar Wilson
- Edgar Kennedy — Herman Wilson
Interesting facts
Kid Millions is a 1934 American musical film directed by Roy Del Ruth, produced by Samuel Goldwyn Productions, and starring Eddie Cantor. Its elaborate "Ice Cream Fantasy Finale" production number was filmed in three-strip Technicolor, one of the earliest uses of that process in a feature-length film.
Production notes
The film's "ice cream fantasy sequence" was Goldwyn's first attempt at film with three-strip Technicolor. The cast of Our Gang appears among the children in this sequence.
Cantor originally introduced the song "Mandy", with Marilyn Miller, in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1919.
Among the Goldwyn Girls in this film are Lucille Ball, Paulette Goddard, Mae Madison, Jane Hamilton, Lynne Carver, Helen Wood, and Barbara Pepper.
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