Footlight Parade
Summary:
The last--and to some aficionados, the best--of choreographer Busby Berkeley's three Warner Bros. efforts of 1933, Footlight Parade stars James Cagney as a Broadway musical comedy producer. Cagney is unceremoniously put out of business when talking pictures arrive. To keep his head above water, Jimmy hits upon a swell idea: he'll stage musical "prologues" for movie theatres, the... Full Summary >>
Cast:
James Cagney - (Chester Kent)
Joan Blondell - (Nan Prescott)
Ruby Keeler - (Bea Thorn)
Dick Powell - (Scotty Blair)
Guy Kibbee - (Silas Gould)
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Review:
Footlight Parade is a bravura exercise in song and dance, with three spectacular numbers that represent the finest work of choreographer Busby Berkeley. As with many films of this type, the story is incidental, though the non-musical scenes benefit from a fine performance from James Cagney as a Broadway producer displaced by the film indus... Continue >>
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