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KID MILLIONS (1934) Clip - "Ice Cream Fantasy" - featuring The Goldwyn Girls [LYRICS (CC)]

A snippet of the six-minute "Ice Cream Fantasy Finale" production number from the B&W musical comedy "Kid Millions" (atop a giant ice-cream maker) starring Eddie Cantor, Ethel Merman, Ann Sothern, & The Goldwyn Girls (one of which is Lucille Ball. The sharp-eyed can see her carrying the giant chocolate bar). This Technicolor sequence was one of Hollywood's first forays into the then-novel Three-Strip Technicolor process. Lucille Ball is one of the 60 Goldwyn Girls featured throughout the film. The song "Ice Cream Fantasy"- Music by Walter Donaldson and Alfred Newman/Lyrics by Gus Kahn. Eddie Cantor's 5th movie musical. No Copyright Ownership Implied.

Dreams Are What Le Cinema Is For

11 months ago

♪ If you like ice cream ♪ ♪ You'll like vanilla ♪ ♪ And we've got enough ♪ ♪ Enough to fill a million tum-tum tummies now ♪ ♪ Right now. And how.♪ ♪ If you like ice cream, you'll be in favor ♪ ♪ Of a goodly share of chocolate flavor  ♪ ♪ And of course, it's understood ♪ ♪ it's good, so good ♪ ♪ Open your mouth and close your eyes ♪ ♪ We will give you something to make you wise ♪ ♪ Strawberries of gigantic size ♪ ♪ Yummy, yummy, yum ♪ ♪ If you like ice cream, we'll make you love it ♪
♪ This is no wild dream; there's plenty of it ♪ ♪ So we'll make it right, and how ♪ ♪ Right now. Right now. ♪ [ MUSIC ]

Comments

@WitchKing-Of-Angmar

Absolutely incredible. They sure liked their icecream.

@williamstillman8543

This sequence was Samuel Goldwyn's lavish experimentation with Technicolor in preparation for his production of "The Wizard of Oz," to which he held the film rights at the time, but which never came to fruition. He sold the rights to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in February 1938, and the rest is history.