Warner Bros. Pictures
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Thank Your Lucky Stars
A thousand shows in one!
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
- Original title
- Thank Your Lucky Stars
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- $1,568,000
- Revenue
- $3,621,000
CinemaSerf
Aug 21, 2025 · via TMDB
How many lyricists can rhyme nylon with pylon? Well that’s pretty much the standard of the work from the likes of Frank Loesser and Johnny Mercer as this jolly crowd-pleaser assembles quite a formidable cast of A-listers to augment a silly vehicle for Eddie Cantor. Playing himself, he is determined to wrest control of a big show from it’s producer “Farnsworth” (Edward Everett Horton) and his composer “Schlenna” (S.Z. Sakall) who are desperate, on bended knee, for Cantor to provide Dinah Shore. In the end, they have no choice but to cave in, but as Eddie imposes his own brand of humour on the proceedings, they are soon at their wits end. Then, serendipity steps in and introduces them to “Joe”. He is the spitting image of Eddie, so if they can only swap them round then they can manage their new man and keep their old one busy elsewhere. That’s the thread of the drama, and it’s perfectly watchable as it allows Cantor to weigh in, twice, with his corny jokes. The main thrust of this feature is a series of on stage performances from an whole range of stars. Most notably, for me anyway, were Olivia de Havilland, Ida Lupino and George Tobias doing a stage routine that reminded me of “Andy Pandy”; then there’s Errol Flynn covering up for the fact that he was tone deaf by sporting a Londoner’s accent to deliver his own wartime tune forewarning the Nazis “that’s what you’ll jolly well get!”. What I found it also showed us was just how similar many of the acts actually looked. Ann Sheridan, Joan Leslie, Miss Shore - they all had a very studio “look” to them. The star of the show has to be Bette Davis who hasn’t the singing voice for a baby’s lullaby much less the big stage, but by acting her way through most of her quite wittily crafted “They’re Either Too Young or Too Old” and getting flung about enthusiastically by jitterbug champion Conrad Wiedell, she participates but remains aloof from the more pantomime elements of this musical extravaganza. I enjoyed Sakall’s bumbling performance and Cantor demonstrated that he was no slouch when it came to making himself the butt of the jokes, even if perhaps I’d have left him strapped to that undulating operating table. It’s a decent example of the efforts both Hollywood and Broadway were going to to support their military and to raise war bond capital, and though perhaps a little too long it still has just about enough variety to sustain it.
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Humphrey Bogart
Self
Eddie Cantor
Self / Joe Simpson
Bette Davis
Self
Olivia de Havilland
Self
Errol Flynn
Self
John Garfield
Self
Joan Leslie
Pat Dixon
Ida Lupino
Self
Dennis Morgan
Tommy Randolph
Ann Sheridan
Self
Dinah Shore
Self
Alexis Smith
Self
Jack Carson
Self
Alan Hale
Self
George Tobias
Self
Edward Everett Horton
Farnsworth
S.Z. Sakall
Dr. Schlenna
Hattie McDaniel
Gossip in "Ice Cold Katie" Number
Ruth Donnelly
Nurse Hamilton
Don Wilson
Self, Radio Announcer
Spike Jones
Self
Samuel Adams
Bartender in Bette Davis Number (uncredited)
Henry Armetta
Angelo the Barber (uncredited)
Lynn Baggett
Miss Latin America in "Good Neighbor" Number (uncredited)
Leah Baird
Bus Passenger (uncredited)
Don Barclay
Pete (uncredited)
Benny Bartlett
Page Boy (uncredited)
William Benedict
Busboy (uncredited)
Willie Best
Soldier in "Ice Cold Katie" Number (uncredited)
Ted Billings
Pub Patron in Errol Flynn Number (uncredited)
Monte Blue
Bartender in Errol Flynn Number (uncredited)
James Burke
Bill, Intern Guard (uncredited)
Fred Burns
Gower Gulch Cowboy (uncredited)
David Butler
Self (uncredited)
Stanley Clements
Young Boy (uncredited)
Ben Corbett
Gower Gulch Cowboy (uncredited)
Dorothy Dayton
A Lucky Star (uncredited)
Harry Depp
Customer (uncredited)
Joe DeRita
Meek Man (uncredited)
William Desmond
Gower Gulch Cowboy (uncredited)
Ralph Dunn
Marty (uncredited)
Dick Elliott
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Dr. Kirby (uncredited)
Martha Holliday
Dancer (uncredited)
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Maid (uncredited)
Arthur Stuart Hull
Customer (uncredited)
Brandon Hurst
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Boyd Irwin
Harry, Audience Member (uncredited)
Eugene Jackson
Dancer in "Ice Cold Katie" Number (uncredited)
Noble Johnson
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Jack W. Johnston
Customer (uncredited)
Fred Kelsey
Pub Waiter in Errol Flynn Number (uncredited)
Colin Kenny
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Skelton Knaggs
Pub Patron in Errol Flynn Number (uncredited)
Richard Lane
Barney Johnson (uncredited)
Georgia Lee
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Carl M. Leviness
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Wilbur Mack
Customer (uncredited)
Jerry Mandy
Chef (uncredited)
Hank Mann
Assistant Photographer in "Ice Cold Katie" Number (uncredited)
Frank Mayo
Dr. Wheaton (uncredited)
Mike Mazurki
Olaf (uncredited)
Matt McHugh
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Frank McLure
Customer (uncredited)
Howard M. Mitchell
Policeman (uncredited)
Millie Monroe
Dancer in "Ice Cold Katie" Number (uncredited)
Bert Moorhouse
Audience Member at Radio Show (uncredited)
Jack Mower
Engineer (uncredited)
Jack Norton
Customer in Bette Davis Number (uncredited)
Florence O'Brien
Dancer and Singer in "Ice Cold Katie" Number (uncredited)
Virginia Patton
Girl in Ann Sheridan Number (uncredited)
Harry Pilcer
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Joyce Reynolds
Girl with Book in Ann Sheridan Number (uncredited)
Dick Rich
Fred (uncredited)
Loretta Russell
Audience Member (uncredited)
Paul Russell
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Scott Seaton
Audience Member (uncredited)
Will Stanton
Pub Patron in Errol Flynn Number (uncredited)
Juanita Stark
Secretary (uncredited)
Madame Sul-Te-Wan
Bit in "Ice Cold Katie" Number (uncredited)
Mary Treen
Autograph Seeker (uncredited)
Billy Wayne
Chauffeur (uncredited)
Doodles Weaver
Self (uncredited)
Lillian West
Bus Passenger (uncredited)
Billy Wilkerson
Gower Gulch Indian (uncredited)
Joan Winfield
Cigarette Girl in Bette Davis Number (uncredited)
Duke York
Wooden Indian (uncredited)
Anton Grot
Art Direction
Duke York
Stunts
Harvey Parry
Stunts
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Jack L. Warner
Executive Producer
Heinz Roemheld
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Frank Loesser
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James V. Kern
Screenplay
Melvin Frank
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