Footlights and Fools
(1929) United States of America
Color/B&W : Eight reels / 78 minutes
Directed by William A. Seiter
Cast: Colleen Moore [Betty Murphy, also known as Fifi D’Auray], Raymond Hackett [Jimmy Willet], Fredric March [Gregory Pyne], Virginia Lee Corbin [Claire Floyd], Mickey Bennett [call boy], Edward Martindel [Chandler Cunningham], Adrienne D’Ambricourt [Jo], Frederick Howard (Fred Howard) [the treasurer], Cleve Moore [the press agent], Andy Rice Jr. [the song plugger], Ben Hendricks Jr. [the stage doorman], Larry Banthim [Bud Burke], Earl Bartlett [the trio leader], Nora Cecil
First National Pictures, Incorporated, production; distributed by First National Pictures, Incorporated. / Produced by John McCormick. Screenplay by Carey Wilson and Tom Geraghty (Thomas J. Geraghty); [?] from a screen story by Katherine Brush? Music by Alois Reiser. Choreography by Max Scheck. Assistant director, James Dunne. Cinematography by Henry Freulich and Sidney Hickox. Sound recording engineer, Oliver S. Garretson. Presented by John McCormick. / Released 8 November 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Technicolor two-strip color process sequences. [?] Western Electric Vitaphone sound-on-disc synchronized sound system or another sound-on-film synchronized sound system? / Vitaphone production reels 3546-3553. / Full-sound film.
Drama: Musical.
Survival status: (unknown)
Keywords: Color cinematography - Synchronized sound film
Listing updated: 21 January 2010.
References: Basten-Technicolor p. 170; Drew-Speaking pp. 182, 283 : Variety-19291030 p. 38 : Website-IMDb.
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