Footlights and Fools (1929)
Mirth! Melody! Drama! Color!
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.
- Date of release
- 1929-11-08
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 18m
- Genres
- Music, Drama
- Director
- William A. Seiter
Casting
- Colleen Moore — Betty Murphy / Fifi D'Auray
- Raymond Hackett — Jimmy Willet
- Fredric March — Gregory Pyne
- Virginia Lee Corbin — Claire Floyd
- Edward Martindel — Chandler Cunnungham
- Adrienne D'Ambricourt — Jo
- Frederick Howard — Treasurer
- Mickey Bennett — Call boy
- Sydney Jarvis — Stage manager
- Cleve Moore — Press agent
- Ben Hendricks Jr. — Stage doorman
- Larry Banthim — Bud Burke
Interesting facts
Footlights and Fools is a 1929 American pre-Code musical drama 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.
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.
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