Footlight Parade

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Overhead view of a Busby Berkeley dance sequence from Footlight Parade, showing dancers arranged in a precise, symmetrical circular formation with outstretched arms and legs.

Footlight Parade

film by Bacon and Berkeley [1933]

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Busby Berkeley
The Warner Brothers period
…Gold Diggers of 1933, and Footlight Parade. Those three films were backstage stories, all concerned with the production of a Broadway show. The nonmusical parts of those films had the gritty urban atmosphere for which Warners was renowned, but for the musical numbers Berkeley created a dazzling opulent fantasy universe.…
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…Gold Diggers of 1933, and Footlight Parade. Those three films were backstage stories, all concerned with the production of a Broadway show. The nonmusical parts of those films had the gritty urban atmosphere for which Warners was renowned, but for the musical numbers Berkeley created a dazzling opulent fantasy universe.…
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Ruby Keeler
>Footlight Parade, Flirtation Walk, Shipmates Forever, and Colleen. In 1935 Keeler and Jolson adopted a baby boy, and she appeared with her husband in their only film together, Go into Your Dance. Keeler starred in Ready Willing and Able (1937) and Mother Carey’s Chickens (1939)…
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>Footlight Parade, Flirtation Walk, Shipmates Forever, and Colleen. In 1935 Keeler and Jolson adopted a baby boy, and she appeared with her husband in their only film together, Go into Your Dance. Keeler starred in Ready Willing and Able (1937) and Mother Carey’s Chickens (1939)…
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