Footlight Parade
Chester Kent replaces his failing career as a director of Broadway musicals with a new one as the creator of musical numbers called 'prologues' for movie theatres, then ship them out to the various picture palaces in New York.
17 May 1896, Trenton, New Jersey, USA
30 March 1889, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
29 December 1908, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
October 17, 1908 in Danby, New York, USA
May 31, 1912 in Big Spring, Texas, USA
March 17, 1875 in Denison, Iowa, USA
25 August 1910, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
29 March 1908, Fort Madison, Iowa, USA
21 May 1889, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
23 May 1898, Homestead, Pennsylvania, USA
June 22, 1891 in New York, USA
31 August 1914, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
July 21, 2003
Not the best of the Berkeley Warner musicals, but close.December 08, 2005
generates laughs at a criminal rateMay 07, 2013
It's the third successful teaming of choreographer Busby Berkeley with stars Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler.