The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater Season 1, Episode 14: The Finer Point

Now in Rehearsal

Eddie stars in a warmhearted comedy of errors, playing the inventor of a remote control TV popcorn machine and the baby-sitting uncle portrayed by Brian Aherne.

Nearly Normal

Newlyweds are promised $1000 if they stop quarreling ... which is all they've been doing during three weeks of marriage.

30 min

The Big Bargain

A sketch about a bargain-hunting wife who makes life miserable for her poor husband

The Hypochondriac

Hypochondriac Harold Clinker decides to spend his last four hours heroically.

A Hunting We Will Go

Lizabeth Scott plays a prim secretary who decides to get married and uses big-game hunting techniques to snare a man.

The Suspicious Husband

When his wife talks him into buying a life-insurance policy, Mike Applegate thinks she wants to murder him.

Garage

Romance Wrecker

The Atomic Brain

Hypochondriac Herman Fergle mistakes the world's smallest A-bomb ... for a pill.

The Critics

Eddie tries to change the opinions of three critics who were less than enthusiastic about his show.

The Helper

The Wizard

A mathematical wizard has a weakness for figures.

The Mink Coat

Through an error, a wife receives a mink coat from her husband. She resists all his frantic efforts to return the fur to the store.

The Sure Cure

Ambrose Dodson's sinister appearance helps him succeed as a complaint clerk, but it sure doesn't do much for his love life.

Commercially Ever After

A former TV Celebrity tries to regain his position.

The Practical Joker

A joker's victims get fed up and decide that the day of reckoning must come.

Always the Butler

A butler appeals for his maligned profession which always gets blamed for the crime.

A Night at the Follies

V for Victoria

How Much for Van Such

A trio of not-so-tough kidnappers holds a man for a million dollar ransom.

Dying to Love

Bombshell Goes to College

An ex-chorus girl marries a college professor, turning a staid campus upside down

Call Me Irving

To get a part in a play, timid Teddy Binks must completely reverse his personality.

Ten Thousand Years from Now

To immortalize 20th-century humor, Eddie presents songs and sketches prepared for a time capsule.

What Do You Want in a Show

Three dimwitted crooks break into a bank but end up, by mistake, in the U.S. Mint.

The Playboy

To get the approval of his sweetheart's father, a wealthy playboy must hold down a job for a week.

Man Who Liked Little People

Tall Mrs. Bullit refuses to vacate an apartment when her landlord protests that he only rents to people under 5-feet tall

The Lieutenant Was No Gentleman

The Song Pluggers

Elmo Dilling is a song plugger desperate for a hit.

Four Strikes

Square World of Pennyworth

Triplets

Three Navy men fight for the same girl, not realizing that they love triplets.

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The Marine Went to Town

A marine's sister and her fiance plan to relieve him of the $20,000 he won in the Irish Sweepstakes.

The Hollywood Story

A Pentagon mix-up puts a lovely Wac (Ann Sheridan) in charge of an Army combat platoon.

The Tester

Strange Little Stranger

A shy travel agent's fantasies start coming true.

And Now from the Audience

A furniture tycoon sets up a production line in prison. Convict R.J. Banning turns the prison workshop into a factory to compete with his ex-partner.