Editing Footlight Parade (section)

==Cast==
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* [[James Cagney]] as Chester Kent, creator of musical prologues
* [[Joan Blondell]] as Nan Prescott, Chester's secretary
* [[Ruby Keeler]] as Bea Thorn, dancer turned secretary turned dancer
* [[Dick Powell]] as Scott "Scotty" Blair, juvenile lead who is Mrs. Gould's "protégé"
* [[Frank McHugh]] as Francis, the dance director
* [[Ruth Donnelly]] as Harriet Gould, the producer's spoiled and nepotistic wife
* [[Guy Kibbee]] as Silas "Si" Gould, producer
* [[Hugh Herbert]] as Charlie Bowers, Mrs. Gould's brother and the censor of Kent's programs
* [[Claire Dodd]] as Vivian Rich, Nan's gold-digging friend who sets her sights on Chester
* [[Gordon Westcott]] as Harry Thompson, Kent's assistant
* [[Arthur Hohl]] as Al Frazer, the other producer
* Renee Whitney as Cynthia Kent, Chester's greedy estranged wife
* [[Paul Porcasi]] as George Apolinaris, owner of a chain of movie theaters
* Barbara Rogers as Gracie, the spy among Chester's dancers
* Philip Faversham as Joe Barrington, another juvenile lead and "protégé" of Mrs. Gould
* [[Herman Bing]] as Fralick, the music director
* [[Billy Barty]] as "Mouse" and "Little Boy"
* [[Hobart Cavanaugh]] as Title-Thinker-upper
* [[George Chandler]] as druggist

'''Cast notes:'''
*[[Dorothy Lamour]], [[Victoria Vinton]], [[Ann Sothern]] and Lynn Browning were among the many chorus girls in the film. It was Lamour's film debut.<ref name=tcmnotes>[https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/3122/footlight-parade#notes "Footlight Parade" notes], tcm.com; accessed November 28, 2023.</ref>
* It is sometimes written that [[John Garfield]] made his (uncredited) film debut in the "Shanghai Lil" routine in a (5/6ths of a second) shot.<ref name=tcmnotes /> Turner Classic Movies perpetuates the mistake in an Article on TCM.com and debunks it in the Notes section of the same entry. The 2003 [[Turner Classic Movies]] documentary ''The John Garfield Story'' also refutes this, as do several John Garfield biographies that give timelines where he is in New York and then on tour in Chicago with the revival of the play ''Counsellor-at-Law'' in 1933.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YfRpu4IB89AC&q=john+garfield+counsellor+at+law+revival+chicago&pg=PA8|title=John Garfield: The Illustrated Career in Films and on Stage|last=McGrath|first=Patrick J.|date=August 23, 2006|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-2848-9|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E_l8SoBVr28C&q=john+garfield+footlight+parade&pg=PA338|title=He Ran All the Way: The Life of John Garfield|last=Nott|first=Robert|date=2003|publisher=Hal Leonard Corporation|isbn=978-0-87910-985-1|language=en}}</ref> 
* The movie briefly shown in the theater early in the film is ''[[The Telegraph Trail]]'', starring a young [[John Wayne]] and, coincidentally or not, [[Frank McHugh]].