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Footlight Parade

CastJames Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Frank McHugh, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert, Ruth Donnelly
Year released1933
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Producer Silas “Si” Gould tells musical prologue creator Chester Kent, ".. we got nothin’ to worry about." (0:02)

Movie dialog: "I’m so proud of you, John." (0:03)

Chester asks Si, "What’s the picture, Uncle Tom’s Cabin?" (0:04)

Si tells Chester, "Drunk again." (0:06)

His secretary Nan Prescott tells Chester, "... you’re going to meow yourself into a padded cell..." 
”What a memory.” (0:09)

Chester tells Si and Si’s wife Harriet, "... the boys, patients. The girls give the boys a shot in the arm..." (0:12)

Dance director Francis tells Chester, "I worry about this, and I worry about that..." 
Chester: ”... You got the kids worried too...” 
Dancer: ”... he’s got depression all over that pan of his.” 
Chester tells Si, ”I slave day and night worrying about ideas...” 
Francis: ”... You got me so worried...” 
”... Now I got cats to worry about...” 
Music director Fralick tells Chester, ”... Crazy Cat...” (0:15)

Chester tells Si’s brother-in-law Charlie Bowers, "... I’ll sock you right in your blue nose." (0:19)

Nan’s friend Vivian Rich tells Chester, "You’re just modest..." (0:25)

Nan tells Chester, "... one secretary slowly going out of her mind." (0:29)

Vivian tells Charlie, "So sweet of you to say that." (0:31)

Francis tells Chester, "I’m not a mind reader..." 
Singer: ”I always get in my singing mood with perfume...” (0:32)

Nan tells Bea, "... dreaming lazily about life." (0:38)

Chester tells tells Nan, "... Didn’t even dream of one." 
”How do you suppose an insane asylum idea would go?...” (0:46)

Chester appears intoxicated. (0:49)

Chester asks Charlie, "See that window over there?" 
”Take a running jump...” (0:54)

Franci, by telephone: "I’m terribly worried, doctor." (0:54)

Nan asks Chester, "You worried?" 
Chester, referring to his wife Cynthia: ”... I still have nightmares about her.” (0:57)

Chester tells Vivian, "... You’ve gotta be patient." (1:00)

Vivian tells Chester, "... just smart. Smart enough to sue..." (1:00)

Chester tells Gould and his partner Al Frazer, “... killed myself so you... could get rich." (1:01)

Francis tells Chester, "I’m a little worried." 
Chester: ”Only a little worried?...” 
”Well you can start worrying all over again...” 
Francis faints. (1:06)

Nan tells Chester, "Don’t worry boss..." (1:29)

Vivian tells Chester, referring to entertainer Joe Barrington, "He was nervous..." 
Joe tells Chester, ”I’m too nervous.” (1:30)

Chester’s character tells a sailor, "... I’ll rap you in the snoot." (1:33)

Opium den, opium pipe (1:35)

Brawl with traumatic head injuries (1:35)

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