Eddie Cantor in Blackface Colgate Comedy Hour 20 Jan 1952
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
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Eddie Cantor performs in blackface on the Colgate Comedy Hour. Also in blackface is Robert Clary, who later played Corporal LeBeau in Hogan's Heroes. The song they sing (Somebody Loves Me) seems a little gay, but that's because Clary is playing a blackface wench. Near the end, Cantor introduces the choir director Herman McCoy and shakes his hand. McCoy, the black director of the all-white Herman McCoy Collegian Singers, grimace-smiles through it.
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It looks more like the aliens from They Live
Fantastic!
This is the guy who dubbed the March of dimes slogan. That's wild
I loved watching Eddie Cantor movies as a kid in the 70's. Too bad this is why they never play them anymore, even on the classic movie channel. Does laughter keep you young? Well, Mel Brooks is 97, and Dick Van Dyke is 98, as of this posting in 2024.
I used to see Jack Benny in blackface on the Jewish Life TV network. If they, another oppressed group, didn't have an issue with it, why should anyone else? History is history. It may be offensive, but why was it being shown by Jews, I'm genuinely curious.
@@PotterPossum1989 I have never seen Benny in blackface. Maybe on one show, for some reason or other, I don't know. Are you sure?
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Robert Clary who would later be a part of Hogan's Heroes television show and he was also married to one of Eddie Cantor's daughters. Still going strong in 2022. Nice man.
Robert passed away later in the year, Nov. 16, 2022. RIP
@@pgh45rpms I had the pleasure of writing a comedy skit for him when I was working at the CBS affiliate KMOX Radio in 1988. He was out guest on the morning show. I still have it here on tape. I had him playing a dictionary salesman. He comes upon a rural couple living up in the Ozark hills. Great fun. Nice man.
Eddie Cantor was an example of something that people don't like to deal with these days; complexity and contradictions at a time when people are looking for absolutes in heroes and villains. Eddie openly admitted that his mentor in comedy was Bert Williams, the father of Black comedy. When Eddie put Sammy Davis Jr on another episode of this program in the 1950s, he stood by Sammy when Sammy was deluged with hate mail from bigots and insisted Sammy return for future engagements (Sammy also credited Eddie as one of the factors that led to his conversion to Judaism). The Nicholas Brothers, who appeared along with a Blackfaced Eddie in "Kid Millions" in 1934, had nothing but kind things to say about Eddie. Yes, Eddie's Blackfaced appearances are distasteful to us today, but his track record with Black people was a good one and he was no cross burner. People today want their heroes and villains clear cut, but real life just doesn't always work that way.
This is the best comment i've ever read about Eddie Cantor. Thanks 👏👏 people truly don't realize that humans are complex and messy, they can do good things and bad things at the same time
@@varietyguy If you read what I said carefully, I did not tar Cantor as a racist bigot. I acknowledged the good that he did as well as the fact that modern people consider this problematic. What I said about Cantor was balanced.
To be fair, black people had a low bar in those days. White people just needed to say a kind word and boom, they had black support.
I haven't seen this entire show, but I'm guessing Cantor must've had the blackface on for Swanee, given it seems to have been a tribute to Gershwin. You can be pretty sure he would not have it on to do a number from Porgy and Bess. It being live TV, they didn't have time for costume changes. Cantor was passionate about his causes, and he chose them wisely. The March of Dimes predated the Salk and Sabin vaccines, not due until over 3 years after this broadcast. In 1952, pretty much every school kid knew someone in their classes with polio. By 1960, it was virtually gone in the US. And the Israel cause was noble as well. At the time of this broadcast, the State of Israel was less than 4 years old.
I haven't seen the complete program either- but according to the "Classic TV Info" website, they state......
"This {show's theme} is a musical comedy called 'Cantor Goes to College', in which Eddie enrolls as a freshman at UCLA."
This production number was presented towards the end of the telecast.
The king returns
HOO ME?
Good old fashioned wholesome racism.
It’s not at all. It was actually introduced to support black people. Al Johnson - when he died there were thousands of black people at his funeral possession to pay their respects
Awesome stuff !!!!
I really wish Eddie Cantor didn't had to do blackface so often so he could still be more known nowadays
Eddie was well known for performing in blackface as early as his vaudeville days (same as Jolson).
@@fromthesidelines yeah i know about their history. these are sad facts. Eddie started performing in blackface when he was still just a child actor that didn't know better. He probably grew up thinking doing that was okay. Sick days back then but well, it's history
@@varietyguy yes I know. I've seen every Cantor movie, heard all his songs, know his story, etc. I know Jolson's story too, i think you misread what i said. I'm not saying they are racists just because they used to do blackface back when it was a tradition of american musical theatre. All I'm saying is that I wish they never did blackface. That's all. I truly do. If they never did that, they would still be more remembered nowadays for their performing talents instead of their outdated makeup. That's a sad truth but Blackface ruined Jolson's and Cantor's legacy forever and I really wish they weren't associated with it
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Thought he was charming until i saw a picture of him with blackface--literally jump-scared me, the makeup is so creepy
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Bruh dude is glowing 0:14
I didnt see a grimace.
The show must have run short, but being a show biz trouper, Eddie filled the gap with some importment statements.
Great clip. The snowflakes of today would melt.
Disgraceful
@Greggy Ramirez your last name is literally Ramirez.
@@varietyguy It was disgraceful then and it still is 🤷🏾♂️ doesn’t matter if he was friends with Sammy Davis.
@@MattyMadonnaso even tho he helped fight for civil rights it’s disgraceful?
This wasn’t considered racist at the time it’s so hard to not judge this comic because he was very talented but god it’s racist.
It is truly racist, but we are a racist culture which is very slowly and awkwardly discovering itself. I was a child when Cantor, actually a kind, generous performer, worked in blackface on national TV. You won't believe this, but if you lived back then, you would have been fine with it. Fashion is hypnosis.
It WAS racist at the time. Just because it was condoned then doesn't change that!