Kid Millions (1934)

Director
Roy Del Ruth

Main cast
Eddie Cantor; Ann Sothern; Ethel Merman; George Murphy; Berton Churchill

Genres
Music, Comedy

Description
A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.


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