`` It is as though '', I said on the historic three-hour, coast-to-coast radio broadcast which I bought ( following Father Coughlin and pre-empting the Eddie Cantor, Manhattan Merry-go-round and Major Bowes shows ) `` That Man in the White House, like some despot of yore, insisted on reading my diary, raiding my larder and ransacking my lingerie!!

'' My impassioned plea for civil rights created a landslide of correspondence and one sponsor even asked me to consider replacing the Eddie Cantor comedy hour on a permanent basis.

His feature film debut was in producer Samuel Goldwyn's Technicolor 1944 comedy Up in Arms, a remake of Goldwyn's Eddie Cantor comedy Whoopee!

Several hit songs were also recorded during the mahjong fad, most notably " Since Ma is Playing Mah Jong " by Eddie Cantor.

* October 10 – Eddie Cantor, American actor, comedian and dancer ( b. 1892 )

* Eddie Cantor

* January 31 – Eddie Cantor, American actor, singer ( d. 1964 )

* Buddy Doyle as Eddie Cantor

By 1937, the theme music for Looney Tunes was " The Merry-Go-Round Broke Down " by Cliff Friend and Dave Franklin ; the theme music for Merrie Melodies was an adaptation of " Merrily We Roll Along " by Charles Tobias, Murray Mencher and Eddie Cantor.

Eddie Cantor had the biggest hit version of the ODJB classic, spending five weeks at no.

The song also was featured in the movie The Eddie Cantor Story and was the theme of the television series of the same name in 1961 – 1962.

President Calvin Coolidge, opera singer Abbie Mitchell, and vaudeville stars such as Phil Baker, Ben Bernie, Eddie Cantor, and Oscar Levant appeared in the firm's pictures.

In the sound era McCarey ventured into feature-film direction, working with many of the biggest stars of the era, including Gloria Swanson ( Indiscreet, 1931 ), Eddie Cantor ( The Kid From Spain, 1932 ), the Marx Brothers ( Duck Soup, 1933 ), W. C. Fields ( Six of a Kind, 1934 ), Mae West ( Belle of the Nineties, 1934 ), and Harold Lloyd ( The Milky Way, 1936 ).

Whites who performed in blackface in film included Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor, Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Mickey Rooney, Shirley Temple and Judy Garland.

That same year she also appeared on screen with Eddie Cantor in Kid Millions, but it was her return to Broadway that would establish her as a major star and cement her image as a tough girl with a soft heart.

" Although Merman always had remained with a show until the end of its run, she left Anything Goes after eight months to appear with Eddie Cantor in the film Strike Me Pink.

In 1951 the duo became one of the rotating hosts of The Colgate Comedy Hour ( Eddie Cantor and Bob Hope were among the others ) and the following year they inaugurated their own situation comedy, The Abbott and Costello Show.

( Eddie Cantor and Martin and Lewis were among the others.

In 1926, Bow appeared in eight releases: five for Paramount, including the film version of the musical Kid Boots with Eddie Cantor, and three others as an " out-loan ", shot in 1925.

Eddie Cantor, Fred Allen, Ethel Merman and Smith and Dale were among the top acts seen in Paramount shorts.

* Keefe Brasselle, actor, title role of the 1953 movie The Eddie Cantor Story

Lucille Ball had come to Hollywood in 1933, when, after a successful stint as a New York model, she was chosen by Sam Goldwyn to be one of sixteen Goldwyn Girls to co-star in the picture Roman Scandals with film star Eddie Cantor.

Eddie Cantor, host.

* Eddie Fisher is " discovered " by Eddie Cantor and signs with RCA.

Eddie Cantor ( January 31, 1892 – October 10, 1964 ), born Edward Israel Iskowitz, was an American " illustrated song " performer, comedian, dancer, singer, actor and songwriter.

* 1911 – Eddie Futch, American boxing trainer ( d. 2001 )

* 1931 – Eddie Fuller, South African cricketer ( d. 2008 )

* 1933 – Eddie Firmani, South African footballer and manager

* 1964 – Eddie Trunk, American radio host and author

* 1961 – Eddie Gilbert, American wrestler ( d. 1995 )

* 1927 – Eddie Leadbeater, England cricketer ( d. 2011 )

* 1928 – Eddie Kirkland, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( d. 2011 )

* 1978 – Eddie Gill, American basketball player

* 1940 – Eddie Barlow, South African cricketer ( d. 2005 )

* 1934 – Eddie Ilarde, Filipino television host and politician

* 1964 – Eddie Dyer, American baseball player ( b. 1899 )

* 1928 – Eddie Fisher, American singer and actor ( d. 2010 )

* 1961 – Eddie James, American murderer and sex offender

Eddie Milne at Blyth ( Northumberland ) and Dick Taverne in Lincoln were both victims of such intrigues during the 1970s, but in both cases there was enough of a local outcry by party members – and the electorate – for them to fight and win their seats as independent candidates against the official Labour candidates.

* 1963 – Eddie " the Eagle " Edwards, English ski jumper

* 2009 – Eddie Fatu, Samoan-American professional wrestler ( b. 1973 )

* 1973 – Eddie Pope, American soccer player

* 2005 – Eddie Barlow, South African cricketer ( b. 1940 )

In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus ( 1922 – 1979 ), who was also a composer and bandleader whose music fused hard bop with black gospel music, free jazz and classical music ; free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden ( born 1937 ) is best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman and for his role in the 1970s-era Liberation Music Orchestra, an experimental group ; Eddie Gomez and George Mraz, who played with Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson, respectively, and are both acknowledged to have furthered expectations of pizzicato fluency and melodic phrasing, fusion virtuoso Stanley Clarke ( born 1951 ) is notable for his dexterity on both the upright bass and the electric bass, and Terry Plumeri, noted for his horn-like arco fluency and vocal tone.

" On the other hand, Hall of Fame coach Gus Dorais told the United Press that " Eddie Cochems of the St. Louis University team of 1906 – 07 – 08 deserves the full credit.

* 1968 – Vietnam War: The execution of Viet Cong officer Nguyen Van Lem by South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan is videotaped and photographed by Eddie Adams.

* 1916 – Eddie Arcaro, American jockey ( d. 1997 )

* 1955 – Eddie L. Johnson, retired American professional basketball player and sex offender