5/16/2023 0 Comments Movie footlight parade![]() ![]() Entitled 'The Honeymoon Hotel' it has a rather lame song between groom Powell and blushing bride Keeler on their wedding night in Jersey City. ![]() The first one is the weakest and the most dated. They run consecutively and, together, comprise the last thirty minutes of the movie. for the greener pastures of MGM) staged the three final musical numbers. The great Busby Berkeley (before leaving Warner Bros. Every time Cagney interrupts his dance rehearsals with different instructions, he humorously replies, "It can't be done, I tell ya, it can't be done." ![]() Frank McHugh adds some laughs as the exasperated stage director. She makes the magical, and seemingly effortless, transformation from a mousy, bespectacled stenographer to a dancing star, while he goes from being an overly eager kept-boy to a suave gentleman. Hoofer Ruby Keeler and tenor Dick Powell round out the supporting cast musically, having already teamed successfully together in 42nd Street earlier that same year. "Listen, Nan, send a new boy and girl on right away, and make sure they're not in love with each other." "Right." "Uh, get a couple already married." Or, another time she tells her phony rival for Cagney's affections, "As long as there are sidewalks, you've got a job." Cagney and his wisecracking, love-starved secretary, played by Joan Blondell, have the best lines. The scenes are short and peppy and full of snappy one-liners. In order to ensure secrecy on a make or break contract, he locks his entire cast and staff inside the rehearsal studio for seventy-two hours, while they feverishly work out three different and spectacular routines. All goes well enough at first, until his ideas start getting mysteriously ripped-off by the competition. When his livelihood is threatened by the arrival of talking pictures he comes up with the idea of doing live musical prologues before each movie. ![]() In it he plays Chester Kent a musical theater producer. I think her studio d.Footlight Parade gave tough guy James Cagney an opportunity to show off his years of vaudeville training. Read full article "Footlight Parade," or TapsBy David on From The Man on the Flying Trapezeįirst off, let me say I was delighted to see you at the premiere of "Gold Diggers of 1933" the other night along with your new protege, Miss LaTour. This is also part of a year-long series of articles celebrating the 100th anniversar. This article is part of The Busby Berkeley Blogathon hosted by Hometowns to Hollywood. The pre-code musical stars Joan Blondell (left), James Cagney, and Ruby Keeler. Today, I'm reviewing Footlight Parade (1933). Read full article Footlight ParadeBy Amanda Garrett on From Old Hollywood Films To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. It?s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. Read full article Musical Monday: Footlight Parade (1933) on From Comet Over Hollywood Because, in a sense, it’s a period piece even if that period is only a few years prior when. Though it still came out in the middle of The Depression, there is a sense that Footlight Parade does not confront the contemporary issues head on?and maybe that causes it to lose some potential power. Read full article Footlight Parade (1933)By 4 Star Film Fan on From 4 Star Films These busy, bubbly productions full of wit, beauty and excitement are pleasant to have on in the background, but deserving of the most devoted attention. On Blu-ray: James Cagney and Joan Blondell in Busby Berkeley's Footlight Parade (1933)By KC on From Classic MoviesĪll film fans have their cinematic version of comfort food and mine is the musicals of choreographer Busby Berkeley. ![]()
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