Inside LA STAGE History: Mason Opera House
by JULIO MARTINEZ the 2010-14 HBO series Boardwalk Empire, Eddie Cantor (played by Stephen DeRosa) is prominently featured as an up-and-coming song-and-dance entertainer plying his trade in 1920s Atlantic City, under the patronage of local political/bootleg kingpin Enoch "Nucky" Thompson (Steve Buscemi). This made for entertaining TV, but was historically inaccurate. By the 1920s, the real Eddie Cantor was the…
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