Footlight Parade

(1933)

★ 6.8 IMDb · 106 votes

Genres: Comedy, Music

Year: 1933

Runtime: 104 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Lloyd Bacon

Cast: Джеймс Кэгни, Джоан Блонделл, Руби Килер, Dick Powell, Фрэнк МакХью, Гай Кибби, Ruth Donnelly, Hugh Herbert, Claire Dodd, Gordon Westcott

Plot

A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.

Chester Kent produces musical comedies on the stage. With the beginning of the talkies era he changes to producing short musical prologues for movies. This is stressful to him, because he always needs new units and his rival is stealing his ideas. He can get an contract with a producer if he is able to stage in three days three new prologues. In spite of great problems, he does it.