Footlight Parade (Warner Bros.) (1933)

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Pictures, Ine. & the Vitaphone Corp. 25% presents ‘““FOOTLIGHT PARADB”’ 100% with James Cagney—Joan Blondell— Ruby Keeler—Dick Powell 75% and Frank MeHugh—Ruth Donnelly 60% Guy Kibbee—Hugh Herneort 60% Directed by Lloyd Bacon 10% Numbers ¢reated and staged by 2% Busby Berkeley 10% A Warner Bros. and Vitaphone Picture 40% PA Pe EE ea ee eS Oe ee Lloyd Bacon Creator and Director of Numbers .........0..0.00.0000000:. Busby Berkeley PPMBLOGU 6 DUP CCL OR cies cca ek ete William Keighley Screen Play by .......... pevicinseoenueee Manuel Seff and James Seymour Muste and Lyrics by ......02.00.00.60. Harry Warren and Al Dubin Sammy Fain and Irving Kahal Photography bY ...0.......50cc000. Re ei eee eee cere George Barnes BPE DW CCS Sis 8k ica tin Anton Grot and Jack Okey ME, OO 20d, sis ce George Amy ONS Dl erst oat ye ee | Se ee eee Milo Anderson Vitaphone Orchestra conducted by .............0.0.... Leo F. Forbstein Guy Kibbee ‘and Renee Whitney in “Footlight Parade,”? Warner Bros.’ latest musical hit. Out No. 25 OQOut80c Mat10c JAMES CAGNEY Cut No. 80 Out 80c Mati10c a re Chester Kent, a famors unusical | puts in a supply of food and locks comedy director, finds iimsel’ vut)everyoue in the piaes. Vivian of a job when talking pictures come | grouchcs 2% being. 2. *. up, but in, as the latter supplant the musi-| Kent pleads with her to be pav.vut. cals in popular favor. His wife In the midst of his work, his wife walks out on him when she finds he| breaks in on him and demands is no longer in the money, and he| $25,000. Otherwise, she states, she gives her his last cent to go to} will raise a scandal over Vivian. Reno and get a divorce. She had gone to Europe instead of Kent is a man of ideas, however,| Reno, and hearing that Kent was and he hits on a plan to make up|in the money again, returns. prologues to be played over a chain] Kent can’t raise the money and of theatres in conjunction with the| thinks he is sunk. He tells Vivian picture feature. Frazer and Gould,| who turns on him like the cheap his former employers, finance him | echiseler she is, telling him she will and give him a third interest in the| sue for breach of promise. Nan concern. finds out what the trouble is, Kent Every idea of Kent’s is stolen by| being unable to concentrate on his a rival concern who rush their pro-| work. She has long suspected the logues to completion ahead of him.| members of the firm of holding out His assistant, Thompson, has been | on Kent, so she goes to the partners neglecting his work. Kent suspects| with a bluff that she knows all him and discharges him. Thompson | about their trickery and threatens promptly goes over to the rival con-| to expose them unless they give her cern. But the leaks continue. Kent’s | $25,000 hush money. They fall for prologues are good, however, and| the bluff. the firm is making money. Frazer| But when she turns the money and Gould, however, manipulate ‘he| over to Kent, he immediately sees books so that they get a fat profit) through it, tells the partners what while Kent gets nothing but a small} he thinks of them and quits flat. drawing account. Nan follows and tries to get him to He slaves on, however, aided by|return, but he refuses. The circuit his efficient secretary, Nan, whg is| managers hear that Kent is out and very much in love with him. One|refuse to consider the proposition night Kent goes to her apartment] unless he makes the prologues. where he meets Vivian, a pretty Kent is angrily tearing his name chiseler, and falls for her hard. He| off a billboard advertising his progives Vivian a job at the office] logues when he suddenly gets a new which makes Nan furious. Vivian|idea. He is so enthused over it is a fast worker and she and Kent| that he rushes back to work. He are soon engaged, he believing his| whips his prologues into shape and wife has obtained her divorce. they are ready to open in three Among the efficient workers at| houses. Just before the curtain goes the Frazer and Gould offices is Bea, up the juvenile is arrested for nona former dancer, who is determined | payment of alimony. to be a business woman, and for| Everyone is in despair, but Kent this reason dresses as plainly as| goes on himself in the juvenile’s possible. But when Scott Blair is| place and makes a hit. The circuit wished on Kent as a singer through | contracts for the prologues, and Kent the influence of Mrs. Gould, she| demands an accounting with the firm changes her ideas. She falls in love| which they are now more than willwith Scott, although she thinks she} ing to give. : despises him because he is a pet| Nan turns the $25,000 check over protege of the boss’ wife. Scott,| to Kent’s wife upon her signing a just out of college, is intrigued by} release. She then steers Kent to her razzing, and falls in love with| Vivian’s room, where he finds her her. in the arms of another employee. To Kent’s surprise, Scott makes| This evidence ends any possibility good as a singer. Bea asks Kent| of breach of promise. for a transfer to the dancing deKent turns to Nan. Her hair is partment so she can play with Scott, | disheveled, her clothes rumpled and and blossoms out in feminine ap-|she shows weariness from days and parel. ‘;nights without sleep, working for Kent is given three days to make| Kent. He at last realizes that she three prologues. Fearing a leak, he’ is the girl. Page One