Footlight Parade
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Risqué, theatrical release, movie posters were commonly used, to promote Pre-Code, burlesque-type, film musicals
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| Directed by |
Lloyd Bacon Busby Berkeley (musical numbers) |
| Produced by | Robert Lord |
| Screenplay by | Manuel Seff James Seymour |
| Story by |
Uncredited: Robert Lord Peter Milne |
| Starring |
James Cagney Joan Blondell Ruby Keeler Dick Powell |
| Music by |
Harry Warren (music) Al Dubin (lyrics) Sammy Fain (music) Irving Kahal (lyrics) |
| Cinematography | George Barnes |
| Edited by | George Amy |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
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Running time
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102 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $703,000 (est.) |
| Box office | $1,601,000 (US) $815,000 (international) |
Footlight Parade is a 1933 American, Pre-Code, 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, with musical numbers created and directed by Busby Berkeley. The film's songs were written by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dubin (lyrics) and Sammy Fain (music) and Irving Kahal (lyrics), and 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 with assistance from someone working inside his company. Kent is so overwhelmed with work that he doesn't realize that his secretary, Nan (Joan Blondell), has fallen in love with him, and is doing her best to protect him as well as his interests.
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