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Footlight Parade

Cast

James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell View All


Crew

Lloyd Bacon (Director), James Seymour (Screenplay), Manuel Seff (Screenplay) View All

Release: Oct. 21st, 1933
Runtime: 1 hour, 44 minutes
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.
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Iroquois
When talking pictures start to replace live performances as the most popular form of entertainment, a producer must come up with a variety of live musical numbers to play in the same theatres.
Gideon58
The musical stars James Cagney, once again displaying his underrated skills as a song and dance man, as Chester Kent, a director of stage musicals who learns with the advent of sound movies, that he might be out of work permanently.


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