Palmy Days (1931)

Director
A. Edward Sutherland

Main cast
Eddie Cantor; Charlotte Greenwood; Barbara Weeks; Spencer Charters; Paul Page

Genres
Comedy, Romance, Music

Description
Musical comedy antics in an art deco bakery (motto: "Glorifying the American Doughnut") with Eddie Cantor as an assistant to a phoney psychic, who is mistaken for an efficiency expert and placed in charge. Complications ensue when the psychic and his gang attempt to rub the payroll.


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