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Line 1: {{~~trope~~work}} ~~Yet~~[[File:Footlight Parade lobby card.jpg\|thumb\|300px]]''[[Footlight Parade]]'' is yet another 1933 [[Warner Bros]]. musical featuring songs by Harry Warren and Al Dubin, though this time the songs were divided between them and Sammy Fain and Irving Kahal. It stars [[James Cagney]] as stage musical director Chester Kent, [[Joan Blondell]] as his long-suffering secretary Nan Prescott, and [[Ruby Keeler]] and [[Dick Powell]] as some of his cast members. In a failing business, they try to find success creating live musical numbers to be shown as "prologues" to main features in movie theaters. This is, of course, all just an excuse for big [[Busby Berkeley Number~~\|Busby Berkeley Numbers~~]]s. ----▼ ~~=== Provides Examples Of: ===~~ ''Footlight Parade'' was added to the [[National Film Registry]] in 1992. * [[Busby Berkeley Number]]▼ ▲---- {{tropelist}} ▲* [[Busby Berkeley Number]]: the movie's ''raison d'etre''. * [[Girl Friday]]: Nan to Chester Kent. * [[The Glasses Gotta Go]]: if Ruby Keeler wants to be a showgirl. * [[Gold Digger]]: The optimistically named Vivian Rich. * [[It Will Never Catch On]]: "Aw, talking pictures, it's just a fad." * [[Last -Second Word Swap]]: "I know Miss B- Rich, if you remember." * [[Me Love You Long Time]]: The "Shanghai Lil" number. * [[The Mole]]▼ * [[Sassy Secretary]]: Nan Prescott. * [[Smithical Marriage]]: ''en masse'', in the "Honeymoon Hotel" number. ▲* [[The Mole]] {{reflist}} Line 21 ⟶ 22: [[Category:Films of the 1930s]] [[Category:Footlight Parade]] [[Category:~~Trope~~Film]]