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Name: Footlight Parade
Released: 1933-10-21
Cast: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Frank McHugh

Footlight Parade

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1h 44m
1933

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Academy Award-winning tough guy James Cagney headlines an all-star cast as a Broadway producer forced by the sudden success of film to learn how to make a living in the new medium in choreographer Busby Berkeley's Footlight Parade. As Chester Kent (Cagney) dives head first into producing musical shorts for the cinema, he must contend with his greedy ex-wife Cynthia (Renee Whitney); predatory gold-digger Vivian Rich (Claire Dodd); faithful girl Friday who loves him from afar Nan Prescott (Joan Blondell); would-be star Scotty Blair (Dick Powell), who's living off an older benefactress; his assistant Francis (Frank McHugh), who constantly moans "it will never work"; and secretary Bea Thorn (Ruby Keeler), who finally takes off her glasses and becomes a star.

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Reviews

Washington City Paper

Noah Gittell

The 1933 film has the problematic blind spots of its era, but it remains a deliriously fun history of film.

The film will have interest for admirers of James Cagney. He surprisingly reveals gifts as a singer and tap-dancer.

Footlight Parade (1933) is one of the three most spectacular musicals in 1933 from Warner Bros. and legendary choreographer Busby Berkeley, alongside Lloyd Bacon's 42nd Street (1933) and Mervyn LeRoy's Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) -

The spicy pre-Code dialogue adds to the merriment, but the selling point is the decision to end the picture with not one, not two, but three production numbers.

August 3, 2019

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Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Dennis Schwartz

It's the third successful teaming of choreographer Busby Berkeley with stars Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler.

April 23, 2021

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