![]() To say that one has never seen anything like it is probably an understatement. How a Busby Berkeley-Obsessed Indie Filmmaker Landed the Stage and Movie Rights to His Unpublished Memoir The legendary choreographers life is a cautionary tale of Golden Age Hollywood, and as the. If that’s not enough, it climaxes with sailors forming the NRA (National Recovery Act) eagle, the American flag and even FDR’s picture (the Warners were nothing if not staunch Democrats). Footlight Parade - (Original Trailer) A producer fights labor problems, financiers and his greedy ex-wife to put on a show in Footlight Parade (1933) starring James Cagney. The second takes his ability to tell a story with his numbers to new heights, with its account of a sailor searching through opium dens, dives and whorehouses for his missing Shanghai Lil. Part of that may be attributable to the presence of James Cagney as the film’s star, but really it’s the combination of Cagney, the bright dialogue and two of Berkeley’s best - and wildest - production numbers, “By a Waterfall” and “Shanghai Lil.” In the first, he outdid himself in terms of pure spectacle. Certainly, it was the biggest box-office hit of the three films when they were re-issued in the late 1960s and early ‘70s to cash in on a nostalgia craze. That is until she finally meets the right man. Its story is no better or worse than the others, but its screenplay gives the pre-code barbs of Golddigers a run for its money. A powerful single woman goes her own way in business, and in bed. ![]() I admit to having a preference for Golddiggers of 1933, but a case can certainly be made for Footlight Parade as the best of them all. What is remarkable is that all three pictures came out in one year. Footlight Parade Trailer 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. tackled Golddiggers of 1933, and when that clicked, they wasted no time in putting together Footlight Parade. Footlight Parade movie reviews & Metacritic score: Chester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rivals spy to produce spectacular live 'prologues' for movie houses. Right after the success of 42nd Street (1933), Warner Bros.
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