The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater Season 1, Episode 24: Call Me Irving

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 Finer Point

In order to find favor with the wealthy owner of a mining company two "muscle men" take lessons in etiquette.

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

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.