Footlights and Fools

{{short description|1929 film}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2020}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Footlights and Fools

| image = Poster - Footlights and Fools 01.jpg

| caption = Film poster

| director = William A. Seiter

| producer = John McCormick

| writer = Thomas J. Geraghty
Carey Wilson

| starring = Colleen Moore
Raymond Hackett
Fredric March
Virginia Lee Corbin
Mickey Bennett
Edward Martindel
Adrienne D'Ambricourt

| music = Alois Reiser

| cinematography = Henry Freulich
Sidney Hickox

| editing =

| studio = First National Pictures

| distributor = Warner Brothers

| released = {{Film date|1929|11|08|U.S.}}

| runtime = 78 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

| budget =

| gross =

}}

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

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

Production background

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

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

Soundtrack

  • "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

Footnotes

  • Jeff Codori (2012), Colleen Moore; A Biography of the Silent Film Star, [https://web.archive.org/web/20110804231956/http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-4969-9 McFarland Publishing],(Print {{ISBN|978-0-7864-4969-9}}, EBook {{ISBN|978-0-7864-8899-5}}).