Footlight Parade

“Climaxing Warner Bros.' glittering parade of musicals!”

Someone keeps cutting into the profits of Chester Kent (James Cagney), a producer whose talking pictures have left him with nothing to stage. His answer is the live prologue, a short musical show played in the movie houses before the feature, and he has to make it work against his financiers, his workers and a greedy ex-wife. Lloyd Bacon directs, with Busby Berkeley staging the numbers, and Nan (Joan Blondell) stands at Chester's elbow with a pencil behind her ear.