Footlight parade, 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
Type
Label
Footlight parade, 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
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
Footlight parade
Responsibility statement
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
Runtime
104
Series statement
Busby Berkeley collection
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
Target audience
general
Technique
live action
Classification
Contributor
- McHugh, Frank, 1899-1981
- Vitaphone Corp
- Blondell, Joan
- Cagney, James, 1899-1986
- Berkeley, Busby, 1895-1976
- Donnelly, Ruth, 1896-1982
- Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967)
- Seymour, James
- Kibbee, Guy, 1882-1956
- Warner Home Video (Firm)
- Turner Entertainment Co
- Bacon, Lloyd, 1890-1955
- Powell, Dick, 1904-1963
- Warren, Harry, 1893-1981
- Seff, Manuel, 1895-1969
- Herbert, Hugh, 1885-1952
- Keeler, Ruby
Subject
Content
Actor
resource.choreographer
Director
Is Part Of
resource.screenwriter
Incoming Resources
- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Contributor17
- McHugh, Frank, 1899-1981
- Vitaphone Corp
- Blondell, Joan
- Cagney, James, 1899-1986
- Berkeley, Busby, 1895-1976
- Donnelly, Ruth, 1896-1982
- Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967)
- Seymour, James
- Kibbee, Guy, 1882-1956
- Warner Home Video (Firm)
- Turner Entertainment Co
- Bacon, Lloyd, 1890-1955
- Powell, Dick, 1904-1963
- Warren, Harry, 1893-1981
- Seff, Manuel, 1895-1969
- Herbert, Hugh, 1885-1952
- Keeler, Ruby
- Genre3
- Subject5
- Content1
- Actor8
- resource.choreographer1
- Director1
- Is Part Of1
- resource.screenwriter2