Footlight parade [videorecording] / 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.
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Burbank, CA : Warner Bros. Entertainment, Turner Entertainment Co. ; Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2006]
ISBN: 1419823191 (set)
Description: 1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Subject(s): Theatrical producers and directors United States Drama.
Revues Production and direction New York (State) New York Drama.
Theatrical producers and directors United States Drama.
Revues Production and direction New York (State) New York Drama.
Feature films.
Musical films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Musical films. gsafd
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Credits: Photographer, George Barnes ; editor, George Amy ; music and lyrics, Harry Warren ... [et al.].
Performers: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Frank McHugh, Ruth Donnelly, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert.
Notes: English with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles ; closed-captioned. (feature film only)
DVD release of a 1933 motion picture by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
Also includes: new featurette: Footlight parade: Music for the decades ; 2 vintage featurettes: Ramblin' round radio row #8, Vaudeville reel #1 ; 2 vintage cartoons: Honeymoon Hotel, Young and healthy ; Theatrical trailer.
Summary: 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.
