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7 | Yet another 1933 Creator/WarnerBros musical featuring songs by Harry Warren and Al Dubin, though this time the songs were divided between them and Sammy Fain and Irving Kahal. |
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9 | Creator/JamesCagney stars as Chester Kent, a musical theater director whose career is greatly threatened by the invention of talking motion pictures. Kent, casting about for a means of saving his job, hits on the idea of creating live musical numbers to be shown as "prologues" to main features in movie theaters. Creator/JoanBlondell co-stars as his long-suffering secretary Nan Prescott, with Ruby Keeler and Creator/DickPowell as two of his cast members. |
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11 | Frankly, this {{Excuse Plot}} serves no other purpose than to give a {{Busby Berkeley Number}} montage some substance. |
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13 | ''Footlight Parade'' was directed by Lloyd Bacon, with Creator/BusbyBerkeley directing the giant musical numbers. The movie that Kent's partners take him to see is a real film, ''The Telegraph Trail'', starring an obscure B-movie actor named Creator/JohnWayne. |
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16 | !!Provides Examples Of: |
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18 | * BlowingSmokeRings: Apolinaris the movie theater owner is doing this when Gould and Frazer are begging him to sign a contract. |
19 | * BusbyBerkeleyNumber: And they are impressive. As was typical for Berkeley, they are far more ornate than one would ever see on a stage, much less in a movie theater; once again, WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief on the part of the audience is duly necessitated. |
20 | * CallForward: In a meta sense, as Chester Kent basically comes up with the idea for ''Theatre/{{Cats}}'' some forty-odd years before the real show. |
21 | * CurseCutShort / LastSecondWordSwap |
22 | --> '''Nan''': I know Miss Bi--Rich, if you remember. |
23 | * GirlFriday: Nan to Chester Kent. She's crazy in love with him but he doesn't notice. |
24 | * TheGlassesGottaGo: if Ruby Keeler wants to be a showgirl. |
25 | * GoldDigger: The optimistically named Vivian Rich. |
26 | * UsefulNotes/HollywoodAccounting: InUniverse. Kent's partners are using accounting tricks to scam him out of the profits of their business. |
27 | * ItWillNeverCatchOn: "Aw, talking pictures, it's just a fad." |
28 | * TheMole: Harry Thompson. "Swell. Move it babe while I give it to Gladstone." Then Thompson's girlfriend after Thompson quits to go to Gladstone. |
29 | * MoralGuardians: Charlie, the irritating, buffoonish in-house censor. Obviously a TakeThat, since pre-codes had problems with the censors. |
30 | * TheMusicalMusical: Another typical Berkeley plot device, as Kent is busy coming up with various musical prologues. |
31 | * ObliviousToLove: Chester is amazingly slow to figure out that Nan is in love with him. |
32 | * SassySecretary: Nan Prescott. |
33 | * SmithicalMarriage: ''en masse'', in the "Honeymoon Hotel" number. |
34 | * VideoCredits: At the beginning, as was standard for Warner Bros. productions at that time? |
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