Directed by:
Mervyn LeRoyCinematography:
Sol PolitoCast:
Warren William, Joan Blondell, Aline MacMahon, Ruby Keeler, Dick Powell, Guy Kibbee, Ned Sparks, Ginger Rogers, Sterling Holloway, Busby Berkeley (more)VOD (2)
Plots(1)
Three showgirls attempt to find financial backing for the new show planned by producer Barney Hopkins. Songwriter Brad Roberts, an incognito man of wealth, offers to put up the money, a fact that brings down the wrath of his older brother J. Lawrence Bradford, who despises show folk. (official distributor synopsis)
Cast
Warren William
USA
Best movies:
The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
Day-Time Wife (1939)
Lady for a Day (1933)
Joan Blondell
USA
Best movies:
Grease (1978)
Bullets or Ballots (1936)
The Public Enemy (1931)
Aline MacMahon
USA
Best movies:
The Search (1948)
Cimarron (1960)
The Man from Laramie (1955)
Ruby Keeler
Canada
Best movies:
Dames (1934)
Footlight Parade (1933)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Dick Powell
USA
Best movies:
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
The Tall Target (1951)
Guy Kibbee
USA
Best movies:
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
It Started with Eve (1941)
Captain Blood (1935)
Ned Sparks
Canada
Best movies:
The Canary Murder Case (1929)
Lady for a Day (1933)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Ginger Rogers
USA
Best movies:
The Green Mile (1999) - a.f.
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
Sterling Holloway
USA
Best movies:
Bambi (1942)
Dumbo (1941)
The Jungle Book (1967)
Busby Berkeley
USA
Best movies:
Footlight Parade (1933)
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Dennis O'Keefe
USA
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Fury (1936)
Billy Barty
USA
Best movies:
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
'Weird Al' Yankovic: The Videos (1996) (video compilation)
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Robert Agnew
USA
Best movies:
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Ferdinand Gottschalk
UK
Best movies:
The Sign of the Cross (1932)
Ex-Lady (1933)
Les Misérables (1935)
Frank Mills
USA
Best movies:
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952)
Limelight (1952)
Fury (1936)
Fred Kelsey
USA
Best movies:
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Love Is News (1937)
Storm Warning (1951)
Wallace MacDonald
Canada
Best movies:
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
Smart Money (1931)
Flying Down to Rio (1933)
Joan Barclay
USA
Best movies:
Love Crazy (1941)
These Three (1936)
King of Jazz (1930)
Charles C. Wilson
USA
Best movies:
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Scarlet Street (1945)
Bill Elliott
USA
Best movies:
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
City Streets (1931)