Footlight Parade
Starring: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler
Director: Lloyd Bacon
Writer: Manuel Seff, Robert Lord, Peter Milne
Producer: Robert Lord
Footlight Parade is a 1933 pre-Code American musical film directed by Lloyd Bacon, with songs written by Harry Warren (music), Al Dubin (lyrics), Sammy Fain (music) and Irving Kahal (lyrics). The film's numbers were staged and choreographed by Busby Berkeley.
Trivia
- Looking for a role different from the gangster films such as The Public Enemy that catapulted him to fame, Cagney actively campaigned for the lead role of Chester Kent, based on well-known impresario Chester Hale of the prologue production company Fanchon and Marco.
- Cagney had gotten his start in vaudeville and Broadway before going into film work; the film became his first on-screen appearance as a dancer.
- Cagney had only fallen into his gangster persona when he and Edward Woods switched roles three days into the shooting of 1931's The Public Enemy.
Previous Showings
14 Runs • 9 Festivals
10,095 tickets sold
Original Billings: 1 run (November 18, 1933)
Original Run: November 18, 1933 (Saturday - Wednesday)
All runs on record (14):
- November 18, 1933 (Saturday - Wednesday)James Cagney, Ruby Keeler
- February 2 - 3, 1990 · 958 ticketsw/ Gold Diggers of 1935
- August 28 - 30, 1991 · 1,024 ticketsw/ 42nd Street
- October 22 - 25, 1994 · 994 ticketsw/ Blonde Crazy
- July 5 - 8, 1997 · 1,057 ticketsw/ Yankee Doodle Dandy
- November 27 - 30, 1999 · 866 ticketsHoliday 1999w/ Yankee Doodle Dandy
- March 25 - 26, 2001 · 388 ticketsWinter 2001w/ Dames
- December 15 - 16, 2005 · 489 ticketsFall2005w/ East Side of Heaven
- April 7 - 8, 2007 · 649 ticketsFilm Noir, Val Lewton, 1930s musicals and more!w/ Blonde Crazy
- July 3 - 6, 2009 · 1,433 ticketsSummer 2009w/ Yankee Doodle Dandy
- July 2 - 4, 2011 · 1,156 ticketsMusicalsw/ Yankee Doodle Dandy
- July 31 - August 2, 2013 · 671 ticketsSummer 2013w/ Flying Down to Rio
- July 27 - 28, 2017 · 410 ticketsWarner Brosw/ Picture Snatcher
- September 18 - 19, 2025 · 0 ticketsSummer 2025w/ Gold Diggers of 1933