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FOOTLIGHT PARADE
U.S., 1933
Directed by Lloyd Bacon
Starring James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Frank McHugh
Musical numbers staged by Busby Berkeley
Art Direction by Anton Grot, Jack Okey
Approx. 104 min. 35mm.
Jimmy Cagney’s high-steppin’ search through the opium dens for “Shanghai Lil” Ruby Keeler, aquatic ballet “By a Waterfall” (“truly delirious” – David Thomson), and a stop at the hot and horny Honeymoon Hotel.
Preserved by the Library of Congress.
Presented with support from The Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film and The Robert Jolin Osborne Endowed Fund for American Classic Cinema of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s