Footlights and Fools
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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
Footnotes
- Jeff Codori (2012), Colleen Moore; A Biography of the Silent Film Star, McFarland Publishing,(Print Template:ISBN, EBook Template:ISBN).
External links
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- Footlights and Fools at TCM Database
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- 1929 films
- 1920s color films
- 1929 lost films
- First National Pictures films
- Lost American musical drama films
- Films directed by William A. Seiter
- American black-and-white films
- English-language musical drama films
- 1920s musical drama films
- 1929 drama films
- 1920s American films
- 1920s English-language films
- 1929 musical films