FOOTLIGHT PARADE MOVIE
To survive, Chester hits upon the idea that he’ll stage musical “prologues” for all the major movie houses in New York City. His nagging gold digger wife ( Renee Whitney) goes to Reno to get a divorce. Because it’s a pre-Code movie, sex talk is allowed.īroadway musical producer Chester Kent (James Cagney) is put out of business when talking pictures arrive.
Bacon lets the musical numbers for the prologues give the film all the energy it needs. Lloyd Bacon (“San Quentin”/”Give My Regards to Broadway”/”Cain and Mabel”) does the directing honors, keeping the dull routine story as a fast-paced comedy about a struggling vaudeville producer during the Great Depression faced with all sorts of difficulties in surviving the popularity of talkies, as he puts on prologues (live performances put on before the movie) for first-run movie houses in big cities like New York. backstage musical, that’s noted for three stunningly marvelous Berkeley kitschy musical numbers: ‘Honeymoon Hotel’ ( Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler keep getting disturbed by outsiders while in their hotel room on their honeymoon), ‘By a Waterfall’ (100 chorus girls swimming in innovative dance formations inside a giant studio tank) and ‘Shanghai Lil ‘ (Cagney wearing a sailor’s uniform and tap dancing for the first time on screen, as he chases after Keeler dressed in a Chinese costume). It’s the third successful teaming of choreographer Busby Berkeley with stars Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler, after 42nd Street and Gold Digge rs of 1933.
“ It’s the third successful teaming of choreographer Busby Berkeley with stars Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler. Forbstein cast: James Cagney (Chester Kent), Joan Blondell (Nan Prescott), Ruby Keeler (Bea Thorn), Dick Powell (Scotty Blair), Guy Kibbee (Sy Gould), Arthur Hohl (Frazer), Ruth Donnelly (Harriet Bowers Gould), Claire Dodd (Vivian Rich), Hugh Herbert (Charlie Bowers), Frank McHugh (Francis), Renee Whitney (Cynthia Kent, Kent’s ex-wife), Paul Porcasi ( Appolinaris) Runtime: 101 MPAA Rating: NR producer: Robert Lord Warner Bros. FOOTLIGHT PARADE (director: Lloyd Bacon screenwriters: Manuel Seff/James Seymour/story by Robert Lord and Peter Milne cinematographer: George Barnes editor: George Amy music: Leo F.
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