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Footlights and Fools
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Wikipedia article
'Footlights and Fools' is a 1929 American pre-Code film directed by William A. Seiter that was billed by Warner Brothers as an all-talking musical film and released in Vitaphone with Technicolor sequences.
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 as Betty Murphy / Fifi D'Auray
*Raymond Hackett as Jimmy Willet
*Fredric March as Gregory Pyne
*Virginia Lee Corbin as Claire Floyd
*Mickey Bennett as Call boy
*Edward Martindel as Chandler Cunnungham
*Adrienne D'Ambricourt as Jo
*Fred Howard as Treasurer (credited as Frederick Howard)
*Sydney Jarvis as Stage manager
*Cleve Moore as Press agent
*Andy Rice Jr. as Song plugger
*Ben Hendricks Jr. as Stage doorman
*Larry Banthim as Bud Burke
*Earl Bartlett as Trio Leader (uncredited)
*Nora Cecil (uncredited)
Production background
This film was Moore's fourth film under her contract signed February 28, 1929. It 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
*List of early color feature films
*List of lost films
Footnotes
*Jeff Codori (2012), 'Colleen Moore; A Biography of the Silent Film Star', [https://web.archive.org/web/20110804231956/http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-4969-9 McFarland Publishing],(Print , EBook ).
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