FOOTLIGHT PARADE

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• Release Year: 1933
• Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
• Plot: Footlight Parade is a sheer cinematic joy. In this Depression-era romp, a timid stenographer (Ruby Keeler) removes her glasses and - wow! - she's a star. A gee-whiz tenor (Dick Powell) asserts his independence. Plucky chorines tap, greedy hangers-on get their comeuppances and an indefatigable producer / dancer (James Cagney) and his Girl Friday (Joan Blondell) work show-biz miracles to stage live prologues for talkie houses to keep their company afloat during hard times. 'Honeymoon Hotel,' 'By a Waterfall,' and 'Shanghai Lil' are the shows, directed by Busby Berkeley and filled with imagination-bending sets, startling camera angles, kaleidoscopic pageantry and a 20,000-gallon-per-minute waterfall. Curtain up!;
• Cast: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Frank McHugh, Ruth Donnelly, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert, Claire Dodd, Gordon Westcott, Arthur Hohl, Renee Whitney, Barbara Rogers, Paul Porcasi, Philip Faversham, Herman Bing, Avis Adair, Loretta Andrews, Bonnie Bannon, Billy Barty, Eleanor Bayley, Lynn Browning, Hobart Cavanaugh, George Chandler, Jimmy Conlin, Virginia Dabney, Mary Dees, Maxine Doyle, Shirley Dunstead, Marlo Dwyer, Patsy Farnum, June Gittelson, Roger Gray, Peggy Grove, John Hyams, Amo Ingraham, Ann Ingraham, William Irving, Fred Kelsey, Donna La Barr, Lois Lacy, Dorothy Lamour, Bobbie La Salle, Lillian Lawrence, Lorena Layson, Cynthia Lindsay, Lois Lindsay, Mae Madison, Sam McDaniel, Leila McIntyre, William V. Mong, Lee Moran, Dave O'Brien, Sue Rainey, Donna Mae Roberts, Jean Rogers, Rosalie Roy, Cliff Saum, Harry Seymour, Ann Sothern, Billy Taft, Victoria Vinton, Juliet Ware, Charles C. Wilson, Pat Wing, Duke York, Lloyd Bacon, Manuel Seff, James Seymour, Robert Lord, Peter Milne
• Director: Lloyd Bacon
• Runtime: 1:44
• Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Vitaphone Corporation, The, Warner Home Video
• Media Format: Movie