Ruby sings and dances with Powell in the last two and she partners with James Cagney in my favorite number from Footlight Parade, Shanghai Lil. Dick Powell gets to sing three songs in Footlight Parade, Ah the Moon is Here, Honeymoon Hotel, and By a Waterfall, the last two with Ruby Keeler further cementing that screen team.
FOOTLIGHT PARADE DVD MOVIE
Of course the staging of these Busby Berkeley extravaganzas on the stage of a movie palace defies all logic and reason. He wished he'd done a few more musicals in his career and I wish he had.
In his retirement Cagney said that while he screened his few and far between musicals a lot, he could barely be bothered with some of his straight dramatic films. It gives James Cagney a chance to display some of his versatility as a dancer as well as a tough guy. Footlight Parade is my favorite Busby Berkeley film. Some other competitors get wind of it and the competition is on. Stage live relevant prologues to the movies that are being shown at the various movie theaters that are springing up overnight from the old theaters. In an effort to stimulate the show business economy and his own personal economy, out of work theater director James Cagney comes up with a brilliant idea. Those behind the curtains were hit as bad as those in front. The Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the Depression following almost ruined the American Musical Theater, in fact it was the final death blow to vaudeville.
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