Footlights and Fools

1929 film

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

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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

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* 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

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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

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This is considered a lost film with only the Vitaphone disks existing.

## Soundtrack

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* "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

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* List of early color feature films
* List of lost films

## Footnotes

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* 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

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Footlights and Fools.

* Footlights and Fools at IMDb
* Footlights and Fools at TCM Database
* MovieTome[permanent dead link]
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