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Footlight Serenade

 
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Footlight Serenade

  • Director: Gregory Ratoff
  • AMG Rating: starstar
  • Genre: Musical
  • Movie Type: Showbiz Comedy
  • Themes: Boxers, Actor's Life, Love Triangles
  • Main Cast: John Payne, Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Jane Wyman, Phil Silvers, James Gleason
  • Release Year: 1942
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 80 minutes

Plot

Victor Mature plays an arrogant champion boxer who opts for an acting career on Broadway. He falls in love with his costar Betty Grable, who's secretly married to actor John Payne. Unwilling to make public her marriage lest it adversely affect her career, Grable is unsuccessful in fending off Mature's advance, which causes her hubby's blood to boil. As it happens, Payne is also in the show, cast as Mature's sparring partner, and it is within the bounds of this role that he gets his revenge on the pushy pugilist. With the three leading actors playing for laughs, one wonders why 20th Century-Fox put Phil Silvers in the picture. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Cobina Wright, Jr. - Estelle Evans; June Lang - June; Frank Orth - Mike, the Doorman; Mantan Moreland - Dresser; Irving Bacon - Porter; Charles Tannen - Stage manager; George Dobbs - Dance director; Frank Coghlan, Jr. - Usher; John Dilson - Clerk; George Holmes - Boy; Wilbur Mack - Boxing Commissioner; Trudy Marshall - Secretary; William Newell - Writer; Sheila Ryan - Girl; Don Wilson - Announcer; Harry Barris - Composer; Hermes Pan - Assistant dance director; Pat McKee - Pug; Frankie Van - Referee; Russ Clark

Credit

Richard Day - Art Director, Roger Hemen - Art Director, Hermes Pan - Choreography, Earl Luick - Costume Designer, Gregory Ratoff - Director, Robert L. Simpson - Editor, Ralph Rainger - Composer (Music Score), Charles Henderson - Musical Direction/Supervision, Lee Garmes - Cinematographer, William Le Baron - Producer, Kenneth Earl - Screen Story, Helen Logan - Screenwriter, Lynn Starling - Screenwriter, Robert Ellis - Screenwriter, Fidel LaBarba - Short Story Author

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