Cantor is forgotten today. Part of the problem I think is that by the time television became the major form of entertainment in the 1950s, Cantor was pretty much retired thanks to health problems.
Although I was nine years old when he died in 1964, I don't have any memories of him of when he was alive, unlike Gracie Allen or Harpo Marx, both of whom died at around the same time. Again I think it was because he retired more or less some years prior. I have memories of so many of his contemporaries, but unfortunately not him.
Thank God, though, we have clips like this:
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