Caught short!: a saga of wailing Wall Street

Eddie Cantor (born Isidore Itzkowitz) [1892-1964] was an American comedian, actor, dancer, singer, songwriter, film producer, screenwriter and author. Cantor was one of the most prominent entertainers of his era.

As a financier and stock market operator his experience is intensely real, and truly representative of the excitements and despairs of millions of his fellow-Americans during the stock market crash of 1929.

This reprint of his original intimate and candid memoir of his own Wall Street adventure was written by Eddie Cantor himself while the frenzied ticker was still sputtering forth the news of the country's most violent stock market crisis.

Through his humor he gives a first-hand account of the turmoil that surrounded this event and its impact on the population of people that had to endure this sudden and impactful event.