With the beginning of the talkies era he changes to producing short musical prologues for movies. For a movie that’s at least partially about creating, we see very little creating, too.
Chester Kent produces musical comedies on the stage. Use the HTML below. The one alluded to here is the “Honeymoon Hotel” number, about a hotel that is used for affairs and one-night stands.
20 of 20 people found this review helpful. A director puts on what may be his last Broadway show and, at the last moment, a naive newcomer has to replace the star. Chester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rival's spy to produce spectacular live "prologues" for movie houses. The film instead makes such work appear very casual and fun. This is stressful to him, because he always needs new units and his rival is stealing his ideas. A producer fights labor problems, financiers and his greedy ex-wife to put on a show. James Cagney knew the film would be good—he begged Warner Bros. for the lead role so he could show off his song-and-dance chops after years of playing tough guys—and he was right.
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Likewise, for a movie in which one of the principal sets is a rehearsal studio, there is very little rehearsing. Footlight Parade Mark Sutch 4/12/11 **** John Garfield Holly 7/22/09 A very young John Garfield shows up for a few seconds in the bar fight scene, just before Ruby and Jimmy start dancing on top of the bar.
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With James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell. A Parisian tailor finds himself posing as a baron in order to collect a sizeable bill from an aristocrat, only to fall in love with an aloof young princess.
Chester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rival's spy to produce spectacular live "prologues" for movie houses. Certificate: Passed Comedy
Footlight Parade was pre-code, so all of this shouldn’t come as a surprise, but, not knowing it was pre-code when I started watching it, I was shocked by some of the humor. There are a number of short scenes in which Kent is hunched over a piano in despair, as the pressure becomes too much, but he always comes up with some ingenious solution.
The production comes off as a clear classic, and it no doubt left 1933 audiences with great cheer.
The film also makes allusions to prostitution in the “real world too” in the form of Nan’s roommate and to Scotty (Powell) being a “kept” boy for Mrs. Gould, the producer’s wife.
Directed by Lloyd Bacon. Comedy
It’s as if the filmmakers want the audience to know that the creative process is hard but not so hard that the audience should feel guilty for watching the film. Comedy An American dancer comes to Britain and falls for a model whom he initially annoyed, but she mistakes him for his goofy producer.
The adventures of an egoistic con man and his glamorous accomplice.
When two investors inform an opportunistic dancer that they can't fund an elderly stage producer's production, she suggests they get an insurance policy on the producer's life. Sure, Kent is stressed about writing , but then—lightbulb—“This just might work!” And, because the rehearsals are never shown, there are no spoilers for the lush and lavish musical numbers at the end.Indeed, those musical numbers are impressive, and they are largely the reason That reminds me—this movie is weirdly risqué. He can get an contract with a producer if he is able to stage in three days three new prologues.
Comedy In the Gay Nineties, a seductive nightclub singer contends with several suitors, including a jealous escaped convict and a handsome temperance league member. Comedy
Certificate: Passed Footlight Parade (1933) – As Long As There's Sidewalks You'll Have A Job!
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Comedy The waterfall number ends with unmitigated support for the New Deal and the dream of a brighter tomorrow.
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