Show Business (1944) + If You Knew Susie (1948) on DVD

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Show Business (1944) 

 Starring Eddie Cantor, George Murphy, Joan Davis, Nancy Kelly, Constance Moore
Directed by Edwin L. Marin

Print: Black/white
Runtime: 92 min.
Genre: Musicals

Show business can be burlesque or vaudeville, the Ziegfeld Follies or smoky dives where a fella sings for drinks. In Show Business, it's all of 'em! Eddie Cantor, George Murphy, Joan Davis and Constance Ford star in a star-crossed story of stardom as small-timers who aim for the big time...in their careers and in love. Some make it. Some don't (at least not until just before the final credits).
The song list of evergreens includes Dinah, Making Whoopee, Alabamy Bound and as a recurring motif that weaves the story together, the heartfelt It Had to Be You. Cantor produced, basing the film partly on his own climb to fame and proving that 35 years in show biz had taught him exactly how to sell a song, get a laugh or wring a tear.



If You Knew Susie (1948)

Starring Eddie Cantor, Joan Davis, Allyn Joslyn, Charles Dingle, Bobby Driscoll  
Directed by Gordon M. Douglas

Print: Black/white
Runtime: 90 min.
Genre: Comedy

Everyone who's anyone in Brookford can claim ancestors who were heroes of the Revolutionary War. Everyone that is, except ex-entertainers Sam and Susie Parker. But then the Parkers find a letter from George Washington that acknowledges the heroism of a long-ago Parker patriarch and says essentially this to him and his heirs: IOU $7-BILLION. Compounded interest compounds the antic
goings-on as Eddie Cantor - rolling his big eyes, flapping his hands and wiggle-waddling in the ways that made him a vaudeville favorite - plays Sam and reteams with his Show Business co-star Joan Davis. The film's title is, of course, from Cantor's longtime signature tune and he belts it out here in his typical unabashed style.