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Footlight Parade

[1933, Movie]

Footlight Parade: Review

Following its success with the blockbuster backstage musicals 42ND STREET and GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933, Warner Bros. launched this lavish production, with Cagney marvelous in the lead. He plays Chester Kent, a theatrical producer who finds himself unemployed after the advent of the Depression and talking pictures. The dogged Kent, however, sells his backers (Kibbee and Hohl) on the idea of doing "prologues," short but stunning stage musical numbers designed to precede the showin... read more

Footlight Parade: TV Guide News

Ask FlickChick: What's That Movie, and More Questions Answered | Ask FlickChick | 1/30/2008
Ask FlickChick: What's that sci-fi movie, multigenerational family drama, time-tripping love story and moreQuestion: I saw several scenes from some film — a "several decades in the life of a family" tale — as a kid in the '80s and they've been coming back to me for a decade, but my attempts to find the movie have been futile. I don't think I saw the ending, which may explain why it's stayed with me so many years. I'm afraid these snippets are all I can remember:The family has moved to a large city and invested in a store selling television sets — then a new technology — but their area has no broadcasts. No one is buying the sets, which just show a test pattern, but then the TVs spring to life, showing, I believe, Howdy Doody. Almost a generation later, this success has been parlayed into a large department store. Some family youngsters are playing there after-hours, and leave a candle lit or set off a firecracker. That night, the store burns to the ground and... read more

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Footlight Parade - (Original...
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Network: TCM
Posted: 11/9/2007

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Year: 1933
Rated NR

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Cast
James Cagney: Chester Kent
Joan Blondell: Nan Prescott
Ruby Keeler: Bea Thorn
Dick Powell: Scotty Blair
Guy Kibbee: Silas Gould
Ruth Donnelly: Harriet Bowers Gould

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