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25 Responses to “Ziegfeld Style Nightclub Act from 1929 (Part One)”

1. MackenzieM3 on October 2nd, 2009 at 4:12 pm

   weird but hilarious …
   weird but hilarious! The home pics my girlfriends and I took were almost as weird

2. WinnieMullins on October 2nd, 2009 at 4:12 pm

   Oh Mr. Zigfeld was …
   Oh Mr. Zigfeld was such a wonderful man. Don’t get me wrong, he could be strict, but if he liked you, he was a true gentleman. I loved those days in the chorus.

3. bambizzoozled on October 2nd, 2009 at 4:12 pm

   Have you seen …
   Have you seen Tropic Thunder?

4. ManilaSyndicate on October 2nd, 2009 at 4:12 pm

   Great historical …
   Great historical clip.

   Eddie Cantor was a good performer, and he looked funny in blackface. They should bring blackface back to the mainstream and be used by talented entertainers.

5. bigsexyshaq on October 2nd, 2009 at 4:12 pm

   You’re making …
   You’re making history too, feyd69. Aren’t we all?

6. feyd69 on October 2nd, 2009 at 4:12 pm

   I appreciate all …
   I appreciate all that YouTube and supporters like you, ‘perfectjazz78′ have to offer. You’re making history! Thank you.

7. perfectjazz78 on October 2nd, 2009 at 4:12 pm

   Probably not, this …
   Probably not, this was as STAGED Midnight Frolic Filmed at Paramount East Coast Studios in Long Island.

8. Belonginghouse on October 2nd, 2009 at 4:12 pm

   Eddie Cantor was …
   Eddie Cantor was probably in blackface because the Midnight Frolics opened following the curtain call at the Amsterdam Theatre. Zeigfeld featured his headliners in the nightclub upstairs. In Whoopee, Cantor ends the show in Blackface. There would have been no time to clean up. He didn’t always perform that way.

9. chalastay51 on October 2nd, 2009 at 4:12 pm

   Great to watch, …
   Great to watch, was Lucille Ball in any of these?

10. russo76 on October 2nd, 2009 at 4:12 pm

    Wild.
    Blackface …
    Wild.
    Blackface was so strange of a stage device by the 1920s in NYC and in vaudeville. Cantor is not even doing any racial roleplaying. He is just doing himself with blackface on.
    But Cantor was a strange blackface performer … less minstrel, more Jazz Age, just some weird sort of mask.
    Fasinating to see this … says volumes about the history of popular entertainment.

11. JAVMAN83 on October 2nd, 2009 at 4:12 pm

    Back when America …
    Back when America had some class…I was born in 1965, about 60 years too late for my tastes…glad to see such history come to life on YouTube.

12. betteroffsingle on October 2nd, 2009 at 4:12 pm

    Sigclu …
    How …
    Sigclu …
    How right you are. And I recall seeing it with my grandmother, and that’s when I became a fan of he and Jolson. Lifelong!

    My grandma was a girlhood friend of Sophie Tucker btw. And yeah, heaven bless Youtube.
    Wonder how long we’ll be able to enjoy same.
    You know, soon as enuff find some get pleasure, all fall down and go boom.
    Cheers.

13. sigclu on October 2nd, 2009 at 4:12 pm

    The older you get …
    The older you get the sweeter the memories. I can remember going to see the Eddie Cantor Story in the 50’s with my grandfather. Youtube does wonders for us old farts. It’s nice to see the likes of Cantor and Jolson, but to revive a memory of a time with my grandfather is priceless.

14. MidnightAndLulu on October 2nd, 2009 at 4:12 pm

    Eeee…with all the …
    Eeee…with all the perky energy of the 1920’s entertainment scene, I’m glad some forms of entertainment have been phased out…like utterly ridiculous makeup that says so much about societal naivete. To think this would’ve actually been considered a compliment to black performers of the era!

15. Montavanni on October 2nd, 2009 at 4:12 pm

    Absolutely! Thank …
    Absolutely! Thank you.

16. Montavanni on October 2nd, 2009 at 4:12 pm

    Thanks for posting …
    Thanks for posting this wonderful, historic stuff . . . was actually wondering if this was Ziegfeld’s rooftop club . . . more than likely a studio rendering of it. However, just to see the New Amsterdam and its marquee was thrilling. What happened to the class NYC used to have, eh? Too bad. But wonderful that these clips exist and are exhibited here.

17. lindyhoppers on October 2nd, 2009 at 4:12 pm

    Nice to hear the …
    Nice to hear the opening tune “A Precious Little Thing Called Love”, the theme song from the film “The Shopworn Angel” (1928) with Gary Cooper.
    Then you can see near the Paul Whiteman sign, one on the left advertising Richard Barthelmess’ movie “WEARY RIVER”, the one underneath is “Sins of the Fathers” with Emil Jannings.

    The New Amsterdam Theatre is still there!

18. dancebandfan on October 2nd, 2009 at 4:12 pm

    I quite agree!!You …
    I quite agree!!You tube has allowed things to be viewed that otherwise it is very unlikely would have ever been shown anywhere else!

19. umLunguUSA on October 2nd, 2009 at 4:12 pm

    I get a strange …
    I get a strange feeling knowing that some odd 80 years ago, this happened somewhere.

20. AnotherGoddess on October 2nd, 2009 at 4:12 pm

    You Tube is …
    You Tube is sooooooooooo wonderful. I never even imagined that I’d have a chance to see all this wonderful stuff.

21. solarvegan on October 2nd, 2009 at 4:12 pm

    You’re most likely …
    You’re most likely right. The opening credits state that this film was “Produced at Paramount Long Island Studios.” After hearing “I Faw Down and Go Boom” so many, many times it was wonderful to finally actually see him perform this number.

22. scenicdesigner on October 2nd, 2009 at 4:12 pm

    A valuable record …
    A valuable record of the man who helped create the screen actors’ guild, and was one of it’s first presidents. But, to be a stickler, I don’t think it’s actually the upstairs cabaret. I rehearsed there once, and it had theatre seats. My guess is that Paramount filmed this in Queens, where Kaufman-Astoria is today. But thanks for posting this. As I say, it’s a great document of a great era.

23. solarvegan on October 2nd, 2009 at 4:12 pm

    Now I’ve finally …
    Now I’ve finally gotten to see with my own eyes the places and people Eddie had written about in his autobiographies.

24. 31512299 on October 2nd, 2009 at 4:12 pm

    Eddie Cantor is the …
    Eddie Cantor is the Man!

25. bigsexyshaq on October 2nd, 2009 at 4:12 pm

    This is a taste of …
    This is a taste of culture that should be valuable to anyone. Thanks for uploading!!!

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