Footlights and Fools
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Directed by | William A. Seiter |
Produced by | John McCormick |
Written by | Thomas J. Geraghty Carey Wilson |
Starring | Colleen Moore Raymond Hackett Fredric March Virginia Lee Corbin Mickey Bennett Edward Martindel Adrienne d'Ambricourt |
Music by | Alois Reiser |
Cinematography | Henry Freulich Sidney Hickox |
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Distributed by | Warner Brothers |
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78 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Footlights and Fools (1929) is a sound film billed by Warner Brothers as an all-talking musical film, released in Vitaphone with Technicolor sequences.
Contents
Plot
Moore plays the "dual" role of a French singer in America who was originally an American chorus girl in France to acquire a new persona.
Cast
- Colleen Moore - Betty Murphy / Fifi D'Auray
- Raymond Hackett - Jimmy Willet
- Fredric March - Gregory Pyne
- Virginia Lee Corbin - Claire Floyd
- Mickey Bennett (born 1915) - Call boy
- Edward Martindel - Chandler Cunnungham
- Adrienne D'Ambricourt - Jo
- Fred Howard - Treasurer (as Frederick Howard)
- Sydney Jarvis - Stage manager
- Cleve Moore - Press agent
- Andy Rice Jr. - Song plugger
- Ben Hendricks Jr. - Stage doorman
- Larry Banthim - Bud Burke
- Earl Bartlett - Trio Leader (uncredited)
- Nora Cecil - (uncredited)
Production background
This film was Moore's fourth film under her contract signed February 28, 1929, and followed Smiling Irish Eyes, also with Moore and directed by Seiter.
Preservation status
This is considered a lost film with only the Vitaphone disks existing.
Soundtrack
- "If I Can't Have You (If You Can't Have Me)"
- Lyric by Al Bryan
- Music by George W. Meyer
- Copyright 1929 by Remick Music Corporation
- "You Can't Believe My Eyes"
- Lyric by Al Bryan
- Music by George W. Meyer
- Copyright 1929 by Remick Music Corporation
- "Ophelia Will Fool You"
- Lyric by Al Bryan
- Music by George W. Meyer
- Copyright 1929 by Remick Music Corporation
- "Pilly Pom Pom Plee"
- Lyric by Al Bryan
- Music by George W. Meyer
- Copyright 1929 by Remick Music Corporation
See also
Footnotes
- Jeff Codori (2012), Colleen Moore; A Biography of the Silent Film Star, McFarland Publishing,(Print ISBN 978-0-7864-4969-9, EBook ISBN 978-0-7864-8899-5).