089 represent footlight parade ( 1933 ) release 9/30/1933 and view 5/5/07 . the ice cream cone be invent in new york . kevin represent after a long and busy break and we hit another busby berkeley musical from warner bros. this time it the ultra fast pace footlight parade and star james cagney a juggernaut stage producer chester kent . i be 100 % certain that cagney be channel berkeley with his performance of the irrepressible kent and who have to come up with new idea for performance every minute . joan blondell be also excellent a the acid tongue secretary turn love interest . the ruby keeler or dick powell subplot be not a major this time but no less enjoyable . one thing that baffle me be berkeley performance themselves and which seem far too extravagant and complex to be perform on any stage and let alone a stage that would be show a film afterwards . obviously busby doesn not let a little thing like story impede him from put together the most over the top musical number he can possibly conjure . i like nearly all of this movie until the end and with the shamelessly offensive number shanghai lil and which and a one can guess and be about a stomach turn a racially distasteful performance come . doug represent six movie in three month . get to be a new record . anyway this complete warner bros. musical trilogy of 1933 and precede by 42nd street and gold digger of 1933. i would definitely recommend watch all three in a row . i wonder if james cagney be channel busby berkeley while he be play chester kent in this movie and or if that the role a write be inspire by busby . i hope it be while it seem to make sense that berkeley be the kind of guy who would see elaborate dance in everyday occurrence the way chester do . the funny thing about cagney be that he do not really look like a lead man in the traditional sense . he be 57 and square head and and talk with an odd new york accent . but the guy be quite versatile and go from the venomous gangster that make him so famous to the fast talk producer type we see here . and he could dance . basically he be a leading man in the body of a character actor . the rest of the cast have some familiar face while joan blondell return and just about steal the show a cagney loyal and lust secretary while dick powell and ruby keeler play the cute couple and but seem to get less screen time than before while billy barty pop up again a the mischievous imp . the movie be typical of the more racy and adult orient musical of the pre code era and a oppose to those of the 50 and 60 that be more family orient and and be an excellent climax of the warner musical of that year ( the shanghai lil number not withstand and with keeler do a poor job at look chinese ) . last film represent dinner at eight ( 1933 ) . next film represent i be no angel ( 1933 ) .