Eddie Cantor's scar

[scottp]

I've done some searching for this before, but I don't think I came up with an answer...
I saw a 1930s cartoon-- one of those with various "celebrity tribute caricatures"-- and there was a reference to Eddie Cantor having a scar-- or perhaps "surgery" was mentioned.
I didn't find anything at the time, so I figured he might have been one of the many people in earlier times who had undergone an emergency appendectomy, and it had made news across the country.
Now I've seen a short where the real Eddie gets pulled over for speeding, and when the cop doubts his identity, Eddie offers to show his scar. It SEEMED like he was indicating too high on his body for the appendix, but maybe I misinterpreted his move to unbutton his coat.
Again I've searched various combinations of words on Google, but I'm still in the dark...
(Yes, I know he had heart problems, but I think that came at least a decade later. And how many heart surgeries were available wayyy back then?)

[Yhtapmys]

I saw a 1930s cartoon-- one of those with various "celebrity tribute caricatures"-- and there was a reference to Eddie Cantor having a scar-- or perhaps "surgery" was mentioned.

Evidently, Scott, you tried the wrong combination of words. It's based on a scene from Palmy Days.

A search of 'Eddie Cantor Operation' resulted in this URL near the top of the list:
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0022246/

Search the document for 'operation'

Yhtapmys

[scottp]

Thanks, you've got me most of the way there--
about Palmy Days:
"The one brief scene in which Eddie tries to show off his operation to Mr. Clark (Spencer Charters), is a little inside humor lifted from their comedy routine in WHOOPEE."

Looking up WHOOPEE on IMDB tells me only that Eddie plays a hypochondriac.

Well I really oughta see those movies anyway...

By the way, my favorite line in the short, "Getting a Ticket," was when the cop says "Do you know you were going fifty-five miles an hour?"
And Eddie says, "But I haven't been out for an hour!"

[helloagain]

Eddie Cantor had a scar on the middle of his forehead, running from his hairline to his eyebrows. It's visible in most photos. He got it in a street fight on the lower east side when he was a kid. It is described in Herbert Goldman's biography, 'Banjo Eyes'.

[Gumlegs]

It's pretty clear in this color shot: