![]() Joan Blondell plays Jimmy's faithful girl-friday, who loves him from afar Ruby Keeler is the secretary who takes off her glasses and is instantly transformed into a glamorous stage star Dick Powell is the protege of wealthy Ruth Donnelly, who makes good despite this handicap Frank McHugh is Cagney's assistant, who spends all his time moaning It'll never work and Hugh Herbert is a self-righteous censor, who ends up in a censurable position. Bill Rudman is your host for this informative and entertaining hour each Saturday night at 10:00pm on Classical 101.1 WRR. There are all sorts of backstage intrigues, not the least of which concerns the predatory hijinks of gold-digger Claire Dodd and the covetous misbehavior of Cagney's ex-wife Renee Whitney. Footlight Parade: Sounds of the American Musical is a weekly radio program showcasing the best of Broadway and Hollywood songs from the turn of the 20th century to today. 1933 Passed 1h 44m IMDb RATING 7.5 /10 5.8K YOUR RATING Rate Play trailer 3:17 2 Videos 94 Photos Comedy Musical Romance Chester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rival's spy to produce spectacular live 'prologues' for movie houses. Halfway through the picture, Cagney is obliged to assemble three mammoth prologues and present them back-to-back in three different theatres. Staff (Not Credited) It is not until Footlight Parade has been struggling through its plot for more than an hour that the fragments of song, costumed nymphs. This is stressful to him, because he always needs new units. Footlight Parade is not as good as 42nd Street and Gold Diggers but the three socko numbers here eclipse some of the preceding Busby Berkeley staging for spectacle. With the beginning of the talkies era he changes to producing short musical prologues for movies. Chester Kent produces musical comedies on the stage. To keep his head above water, Jimmy hits upon a swell idea: he'll stage musical prologues for movie theatres, then ship them out to the various picture palaces in New York. Chester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rival's spy to produce spectacular live 'prologues' for movie houses. Cagney is unceremoniously put out of business when talking pictures arrive. efforts of 1933, Footlight Parade stars James Cagney as a Broadway musical comedy producer. ![]() The last-and to some aficionados, the best-of choreographer Busby Berkeley's three Warner Bros. ![]()
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