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Footlight Parade is a 1933 American musical film directed by Lloyd Bacon, with songs written by Harry Warren (music), Al Dubin (lyrics), Sammy Fain (music) and Irving Kahal (lyrics). The film's numbers were staged and choreographed by Busby Berkeley.
Footlight Parade: Directed by Lloyd Bacon. With James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell. Chester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rival's spy to produce spectacular live "prologues" for movie houses.
- (6.1K)
- Comedy, Musical, Romance
- Lloyd Bacon
- 1933-10-21
A producer fights labor problems, financiers and his greedy ex-wife to put on a show.
Footlight Parade opts for a complex web of romantic entanglements that are each barely touched on and include characters that look so similar you'll have trouble keeping...
- (13)
- Lloyd Bacon
- G
- James Cagney
Overview. A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.
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) - with this briskly-told entry often considered the best and most extravagant of all three.
Climaxing Warner Bros.’ glittering parade of musicals! A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences. Remove Ads.
