Footlight Parade

For the radio show of the same name, see WCLV.

Footlight Parade
Original 1933 theatrical release poster for Footlight Parade produced by the Cleveland School and Continental Lithograph Corp. in Cleveland.
Directed byLloyd Bacon
Busby Berkeley
(musical numbers)
Screenplay byManuel Seff
James Seymour
Story byUncredited:
Robert Lord
Peter Milne
Produced byRobert Lord
StarringJames Cagney
Joan Blondell
Ruby Keeler
Dick Powell
CinematographyGeorge Barnes
Edited byGeorge Amy
Music byHarry Warren (music)[1]
Al Dubin (lyrics)[1]
Sammy Fain (music)[2]
Irving Kahal (lyrics)[2]
Distributed byWarner Bros. Pictures
Release dates
  • September 30, 1933 (1933-09-30) (premiere)
  • October 21, 1933 (1933-10-21) (general)
Running time
102 minutes[3]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$703,000 (est.)[4][5]
Box office$2.4 million[4][5][6]

Footlight Parade is a 1933 American musical film directed by Lloyd Bacon, with songs written by Harry Warren (music), Al Dubin (lyrics),[1] Sammy Fain (music) and Irving Kahal (lyrics).[2] The film's numbers were staged and choreographed by Busby Berkeley. It starred James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell, with featured appearances by Frank McHugh, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert, and Ruth Donnelly.

The film's screenplay was written by Manuel Seff and James Seymour, based on a story by Robert Lord and Peter Milne.

In 1992, Footlight Parade was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[7]

  1. ^ a b c Allmovie Overview
  2. ^ a b c TCM Full Credits
  3. ^ Footlight Parade at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films Edit this at Wikidata
  4. ^ a b Sedgwick, John (2000) Popular Filmgoing in 1930s Britain: A Choice of Pleasures University of Exeter Press. p.168 ISBN 9780859896603
  5. ^ a b Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, (1995) 15:sup1, 1–31 p 15 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551
  6. ^ "Which Conema Films Have Earned the Most Money Since 1947?". The Argus Weekend Magazine. Melbourne. March 4, 1944. p. 3. Retrieved August 6, 2012 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved April 29, 2020.