Footlights and Fools explained

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, McFarland Publishing,(Print, EBook).

External links

• • Footlights and Fools at TCM Database
• MovieTome
• Answers.com