Footlight parade [DVD] / 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.
James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Frank McHugh, Ruth Donnelly, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert. DVD release of a 1933 motion picture by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. 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.
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