Eddie Cantor – MRQE

Special Delivery

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The second and last of Eddie Cantor’s silent vehicles, Special Delivery casts the wide-eyed comedian as a hapless mailman. While going through his swiftly appointed rounds, Eddie stumbles upon a gang of crooks who are planning a large-scale confidence scam. He exposes the villains and wins the love of heroine Madge (Jobyna Ralston). Though Cantor was a fine physical comic, he didn’t truly score in films until the arrival of talkies allowed his fans to hear as well as see him. Special Delivery was directed by “William Goodrich,” who in reality was comedian Fatty Arbuckle, hoping to stage a comeback after the sex scandal that destroyed his career.

Yesterday and Today

Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A compilation of early-day silent films that serves as a glimpse back to the formative days of the movie industry as a salute to Hollywood’s Golden Year, so proclaimed by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce as 1953.

If You Knew Susie

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, except Sam and Susie Parker. One day, however, they find a letter written by George Washington that mentions the bravery of a Revolutionary War hero named Parker.

Hollywood Canteen

Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.

Show Business

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Musical about vaudeville performers, from 1944.

Thank Your Lucky Stars

Tue, 16 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.

Ali Baba Goes to Town

Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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-name guest stars playing themselves.

Strike Me Pink

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.

Kid Millions

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.

Roman Scandals

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

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, where he gets mixed up with court intrigue and a murder plot against the Emperor.