Footlight parade / Warner Bros. Pictures & the Vitaphone Corp. ; directed by Lloyd Bacon ; numbers created and directed by Busby Berkeley ; screen play by Manuel Seff and James Seymour.

Cagney stars as Chester Kent, a diligent musical comedy director who is continually warding off snoopers hired by his competitors to steal his ideas. When his latest show is cancelled in favor of a talking picture, he turns to staging musical prologues to play before the features in moviehouses.

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Bibliographic Details
Contributors: Bacon, Lloyd, 1890-1955 (Director), Berkeley, Busby, 1895-1976 (Choreographer), Seff, Manuel, 1895-1969 (Screenwriter), Seymour, James (Screenwriter), Cagney, James, 1899-1986 (Actor), Blondell, Joan (Actor), Keeler, Ruby (Actor), Powell, Dick, 1904-1963 (Actor), McHugh, Frank, 1898-1981 (Actor), Donnelly, Ruth, 1896-1982 (Actor), Kibbee, Guy, 1882-1956 (Actor), Herbert, Hugh, 1885-1952 (Actor), Warren, Harry, 1893-1981
Corporate Contributors: Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967), Vitaphone Corp., Turner Entertainment Co., Warner Home Video (Firm)
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
French
Spanish
Published: Burbank, CA : Burbank, CA : Warner Bros. Entertainment, Turner Entertainment Co. ; Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2006]
Series:Busby Berkeley collection.
Subjects:
Genre/Form:Feature films.
Musical films.
LGBTQ+ musicals.
Local Note:Emerson College: Gift of Charles L. Hoyt.

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Call Number: [DVD] PN1995.9.M86 B33 2006
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