Ali Baba Goes to Town is a 1937 musical film directed by David Butler and starring Eddie Cantor, Tony Martin, and Roland Young. Cantor plays a hobo named Aloysius "Al" Babson, who walks into the camp of a movie company that is making the Arabian Nights. He falls asleep and dreams he is in Baghdad as an advisor to the Sultan (Young). He organizes work programs, taxes the rich, and abolishes the army, in a spoof of Roosevelt's New Deal. The cast also includes Gypsy Rose Lee, using the stage name of Louise Hovick, as the Sultana. The Raymond Scott Quintette also appears, performing "Twilight In Turkey." Two men were killed and two injured on August 27, 1937, when the flying carpet rig collapsed in the studio. The "carpet" was a platform suspended high above the floor by piano wires attached to the four corners. The platform fell while it was being tested; none of the actors were on set. Three workmen had been riding on the carpet, with one, camera grip Harry Harsha, dying from his injuries the next day, and 48-year-old actor and prop man Philo Goodfriend was crushed to death underneath. Goodfriend had also been the commodore of Santa Monica Yacht Club. Cast Eddie Cantor ... Ali Baba/Aloysius 'Al' Babson Tony Martin ... Yusuf/Announcer at Premiere Roland Young ... Sultan June Lang ... Princess Miriam Gypsy Rose Lee ... Sultana Raymond Scott ... Orchestra Leader John Carradine ... Ishak/Broderick Virginia Field ... Dinah Alan Dinehart ... Boland Douglass Dumbrille ... Prince Musah Maurice Cass ... Omar, The Rug Maker Warren Hymer ... Tramp Stanley Fields ... Tramp Paul Hurst... Captain Sam Hayes ... Radio Announcer/Assistant Director Charles Lane ... Doctor Jeni Le Gon ... Specialty Dancer The Peters Sisters ... Specialty Act The Pearl Twins ... Specialty Dancers Uncredited Guests At Premiere: Phyllis Brooks ... Herself Dolores del Río ... Herself Douglas Fairbanks ... Himself Jack Haley ... Himself Sonja Henie ... Herself Victor McLaglen ... Himself Tyrone Power ... Himself The Ritz Brothers ... Themselves Cesar Romero ... Himself Ann Sothern ... Herself Shirley Temple ... Herself Cultural references A clip from Ali Baba Goes to Town is shown in the film The Day of the Locust (1975), in which Karen Black plays an aspiring actress in 1930s Hollywood. A brief shot of Black is edited into the Ali Baba footage to create the impression that