The Kid from Spain

[6][7] Also appearing in uncredited roles are Harry C. Bradley, Teresa Maxwell-Conover, Eduardo de Castro, Harry Gribbon, Paul Panzer, Julian Rivero, Walter Walker, Leo Willis, Tammany Young, and the stock company of the Goldwyn Girls, consisting at that time of Betty Grable, Beatrice Hagen, Paulette Goddard, Toby Wing, Jane Wyman, Althea Henley, Dorothy Coonan Wellman, Shirley Chambers, and Lynn Browning.

[8] A high-production feature, The Kid From Spain was provided a million-dollar budget by producer Samuel Goldwyn and engaged some of the finest artistic and technical talent available in Hollywood during the early 1930s.

These scenes were filmed at a ring specially built at United Artists studios and attended by screen stars Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and Mary Pickford.

[15] Critic Thorton Delehanty in The New York Post wrote "Eddie Cantor contributes some excruciatingly funny moments" and The Hollywood Reporter declared that "Leo McCarey's directions should land this fellow right on his feet in front of the ranks of the present-day hit directors.

"[18] Variety magazine, in response, published a review of the film that included the following remark from Eddie Cantor regarding the $2 tickets: "A guy making a small salary must give up 10% of his [weekly] income to see me in a picture.

"[19] Film critic Wes D. Gehring, describing The Kid From Spain as "a challenging and crazy comedy" for director Leo McCarey, comments on vaudevillian Eddie Cantor's burlesque-influenced contribution to the film: Even today, with those expressive rolling eyes or his signature comic song shtick of skipping gait and clapping hands, the Cantor energy level still makes Spain a very entertaining picture.

1932 advert from The Film Daily