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Release Date: 2012

Cast: Guy Kibbee, Ruth Donnelly, Arthur Hohl, Hugh Herbert, Ann Sothern, James Cagney, Busby Berkeley, Ruby Keeler, Paul Porcasi, Lloyd Bacon, Frank McHugh, Dick Powell ...MORE

Cast: Guy Kibbee, Ruth Donnelly, Arthur Hohl, Hugh Herbert, Ann Sothern, James Cagney, Busby Berkeley, Ruby Keeler, Paul Porcasi, Lloyd Bacon, Frank McHugh, Dick Powell, Joan Blondell, Claire Dodd ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Dance, Pre-Code, Musical Comedy, Black-And-White, Musical

Footlight Parade is a 1933 American musical film starring James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell and featuring Frank McHugh, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert and Ruth Donnelly. The movie was written by Manuel Seff and James Seymour from a story by Robert Lord and Peter Milne, and directed by Lloyd Bacon. The spectacular Busby Berkeley musical numbers, written by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics) and Sammy Fain (music) and Irving Kahal (lyrics), include "By a Waterfall", "Honeymoon Hotel", and "Shanghai Lil". In 1992, Footlight Parade was selected for preservation in the... MORE

Footlight Parade is a 1933 American musical film starring James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell and featuring Frank McHugh, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert and Ruth Donnelly. The movie was written by Manuel Seff and James Seymour from a story by Robert Lord and Peter Milne, and directed by Lloyd Bacon. The spectacular Busby Berkeley musical numbers, written by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics) and Sammy Fain (music) and Irving Kahal (lyrics), include "By a Waterfall", "Honeymoon Hotel", and "Shanghai Lil". In 1992, Footlight Parade was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Chester Kent (James Cagney) replaces his failing career as a director of Broadway musicals with a new one as the creator of musical numbers called "prologues", short live stage productions presented in movie theaters before the main feature is shown. He faces pressure from his business partners to constantly create a large number of marketable prologues to service theaters throughout the country, but his job is made harder by a rival who is stealing his ideas, probably LESS