Footlight Parade (1933) on DVD

Actor: James Cagney; Joan Blondell; Dick Powell; Frank McHugh; Ruth Donnelly; Guy Kibbee; Hugh Herbert
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Genre: Comedy
Year: 1933
Studio: Warner Bros.
Length: 103
Released: 04/14/2020
Rating: Not Rated (MPAA Rating)
Format: DVD
Misc/Special Features: NTS
Language: English
Subtitles : Yes

DESCRIPTION:

Footlight Parade is sheer cinematic joy. In this Depression-era romp, a timid stenographer (Ruby Keeler) removes her glasses and wow! she's a star. A gee-whiz tenor (Dick Powell) asserts his independence. Plucky chorines tap, greedy hangers-on get their comeuppances, and an indefatigable producer/dancer (James Cagney) and his girl Friday (Joan Blondell) work showbiz miracles to stage live prologues for talkie houses to keep their company afloat during hard times. Honeymoon Hotel, By a Waterfall and Shanghai Lil are the shows, directed by Busby Berkeley and filled with imagination-bending sets, startling camera angles, kaleidoscopic pageantry and a 20,000-gallon-per-minute waterfall. Curtain up!