#Footlight parade shanghai lil movie#

Hoping to land a big contract, and with no time to prepare, he and his troupe (including Joan Blondell as CagneyвЂ™s faithful Girl Friday, Ruby Keeler as a dowdy secretary who takes off her glasses and is instantly transformed into a glamorous star, and Dick Powell as an eager young вЂњprotГ©gГ©вЂќ of older woman Ruth Donnelley) devise and present three new massive production numbers at three different theatres вЂ¦ all on the same night! A fast-paced, entertainingly biting commentary on fickle audiences and the looming dominance of cinema over stage, Footlight Parade features a knockout performance from Cagney in his first singing and dancing screen role, not to mention such racy pre-Code Busby Berkeley-directed fantasies as the innuendo-heavy Honeymoon Hotel, the staggering, spectacular By a Waterfall, featuring a bevy of geometrically-arranged bathing beauties romping in an Art Deco swimming pool, and the unbelievable Shanghai Lil, which somehow incorporates a tap-dance duet by Cagney and Keeler, scandalous scatological references and an opium den! (Dir.

#Footlight parade shanghai lil movie#

Of course, this being a 1930s musical, Cagney comes up with an ingenious (and borderline insane) idea to save his career: producing live вЂњprologuesвЂќ вЂ“ short stage musicals вЂ“ which can precede films in the larger movie houses. вЂњ Footlight ParadeВ is a gem вЂ¦ it has some of the most deliriously dazzling choreography and feats of visual bravado you may ever see in a motion picture, with enough moments of over-the-top excess that you can sometimes hardly believe what youвЂ™re seeing.вЂќ вЂ“ And even worse, competitors keep stealing his best comeback concepts! First film where James Cagney dances - showing off his vaudeville and stage experience as a song-and-dance man. Watch on YouTube Footlight Parade Comedy 1933 1 hr 43 min English audio CC BUY OR RENT Oscar-winner James Cagney ('Yankee Doodle Dandee,' 'White Heat') stars a fledgling producer who finds. In Footlight Parade, James Cagney stars as a Broadway producer on his way out due to the Depression-era publicвЂ™s preference for talking pictures over stage musicals. Bebe Daniels, Ginger Rogers, Ruby Keeler, Una Merkel, James Cagney, Joan Blondell) on Spotify. Footlight Parade (1933) - (Movie Clip) (She Ain't Your) Shanghai Lil Terrific trick here as producer James Cagney gets in a scrap with his drunken incompetent leading man, Frank McHugh the stage manager, but the show must go on, with the first segment of the famous Harry Warren-Al Dubin song, near the finish, in Warner Bros.вЂ™ Footlight. 35mm print! Footlight Parade Showtimes WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21 AT 7:30PM | REGULAR ADMISSION PRICES Listen to Footlight Parade: Shanghai Lil (feat.