Footlights and Fools

Footlights and Fools
Film poster
Directed by	William A. Seiter
Written by	Thomas J. Geraghty Carey Wilson
Produced by	John McCormick
Starring	Colleen Moore Raymond Hackett Fredric March Virginia Lee Corbin Mickey Bennett Edward Martindel Adrienne D'Ambricourt
Cinematography	Henry Freulich Sidney Hickox
Music by	Alois Reiser
Production company	First National Pictures
Distributed by	Warner Brothers
Release date	November 8, 1929 (1929-11-08)(U.S.)
Running time	78 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Footlights and Fools is a 1929 American sound (All-Talking) 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, McFarland Publishing,(Print ISBN   978-0-7864-4969-9, EBook ISBN   978-0-7864-8899-5).

External links

• Footlights and Fools at IMDb
• Footlights and Fools at TCM Database
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