Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937)
October 29, 1937Release Date
Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937)
October 29, 1937Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Eddie Cantor
Aloysius Babson/Ali Baba/Eddie Cantor
Tony Martin
Yusuf/Tony Martin
Roland Young
Sultan
June Lang
Princess Miriam/June Lang
Gypsy Rose Lee
Sultana/Louise Hovick (billed as Louise Hovick)
John Carradine
Ishak
Virginia Field
Dinah/Dina
Jeni Le Gon
Specialty Dancer
Douglass Dumbrille
Prince Musah
Alan Dinehart
Boland
Maurice Cass
Omar
Warren Hymer
Tramp
Stanley Fields
Tramp
Paul Hurst
Captain
Charles Lane
Doctor
Ferdinand Gottschalk
Chief Councilor
Peters Sisters
Themselves
Phyllis Brooks
Herself
Dolores del Río
Herself
Douglas Fairbanks
Himself
Ernest Palmer
Cinematographer
Jack Haley
Himself
Sonja Henie
Herself
Irene Morra
Editor
Media.
Details.
Release DateOctober 29, 1937
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 21m
Content RatingNR
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Ali Baba Goes to Town is a 1937 American musical comedy film directed by David Butler and starring Eddie Cantor, Tony Martin, and Roland Young. Cantor plays a hobo named Aloysius "Al" Babson, who walks into the camp of a movie company that is making the Arabian Nights. He falls asleep and dreams he is in Baghdad as an advisor to the Sultan (Young). He organizes work programs, taxes the rich, and abolishes the army, in a spoof of Roosevelt's New Deal. This film was the second of three in which Shirley Temple and Cesar Romero appeared together, second was Wee Willie Winkie (1937) and The Little Princess (1939).The cast also includes Gypsy Rose Lee, using the stage name of Louise Hovick, as the Sultana.
The Raymond Scott Quintette also appears, performing "Twilight In Turkey."