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{{short description|1933 film by Lloyd Bacon}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Footlight Parade
| image          = Footlight Parade (1933 theatrical poster).jpg
| caption        = Original 1933 theatrical release poster for ''Footlight Parade'' produced by the [[Cleveland School (arts community)|Cleveland School]] and Continental Lithograph Corp. in Cleveland.
| director       = [[Lloyd Bacon]]<br>[[Busby Berkeley]]<br>''(musical numbers)''
| screenplay     = [[Manuel Seff]]<br>James Seymour
| story          = '''Uncredited:'''<br>[[Robert Lord (screenwriter)|Robert Lord]]<br>[[Peter Milne (screenwriter)|Peter Milne]]
| producer       = Robert Lord
| starring       = [[James Cagney]]<br>[[Joan Blondell]]<br>[[Ruby Keeler]]<br>[[Dick Powell]]
| cinematography = [[George Barnes (cinematographer)|George Barnes]]
| editing        = [[George Amy]]
| music          = [[Harry Warren]] ''(music)''<ref name=amgover /><br>[[Al Dubin]] ''(lyrics)''<ref name=amgover>Allmovie [https://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:18113~T0 Overview]</ref><br>[[Sammy Fain]] ''(music)''<ref name=tcmfull /><br>[[Irving Kahal]] ''(lyrics)''<ref name=tcmfull>TCM [https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/3122/footlight-parade#credits Full Credits]</ref>
| studio         =
| distributor    = [[Warner Bros. Pictures]]
| released       = {{Film date|1933|09|30|''premiere''|1933|10|21|''general''}}
| runtime        = 102 minutes<ref name=afi>{{AFI film}}</ref>
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = $703,000 ''(est.)''<ref name="warner">Sedgwick, John (2000) [https://books.google.com/books?id=YsUfc8Ijb-wC&q=warners+musicals+1932+table+8.4&pg=PA167 ''Popular Filmgoing in 1930s Britain: A Choice of Pleasures''] University of Exeter Press. p.168 {{ISBN|9780859896603}}</ref><ref name="warners">Warner Bros financial information in The William Schaefer Ledger. See Appendix 1, ''Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television'', (1995) 15:sup1, 1–31 p 15 DOI: 10.1080/01439689508604551</ref>
| gross          = $2.4 million<ref name="warner"/><ref name="warners"/><ref name="Melbourne">{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11816878|title=Which Conema Films Have Earned the Most Money Since 1947?|newspaper=[[The Argus (Melbourne)|The Argus Weekend Magazine]]|location=Melbourne|date=March 4, 1944|access-date=August 6, 2012|page=3|via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
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'''''Footlight Parade''''' is a 1933 [[Pre-Code Hollywood|pre-Code]] American [[musical film]] directed by [[Lloyd Bacon]], with songs written by [[Harry Warren]] (music), [[Al Dubin]] (lyrics),<ref name="amgover" /> [[Sammy Fain]] (music) and [[Irving Kahal]] (lyrics).<ref name=tcmfull/> The film's numbers were staged and choreographed by [[Busby Berkeley]].

It starred [[James Cagney]], [[Joan Blondell]], [[Ruby Keeler]] and [[Dick Powell]], with featured appearances by [[Frank McHugh]], [[Guy Kibbee]], [[Hugh Herbert]], and [[Ruth Donnelly]].

The film's screenplay was written by [[Manuel Seff]] and James Seymour, based on a story by [[Robert Lord (screenwriter)|Robert Lord]] and [[Peter Milne (screenwriter)|Peter Milne]].

In 1992, ''Footlight Parade'' was selected for preservation in the United States [[National Film Registry]] by the [[Library of Congress]] as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". ''Footlight Parade'' has a [[List of films with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes|{{RT data|score}} rating]] on the review-aggregator [[Rotten Tomatoes]], based on {{RT data|count}} reviews.

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