Footlight Parade is not as good as 42nd Street and Gold Diggers but the three socko numbers here eclipse some of the preceding Busby Berkeley staging for spectacle. Footlight Parade is not as good as ...

It was just four years ago, when I hadn’t been going to movies very much, that I stopped around to see Footlight Parade and made the happy discovery of James Cagney. He had been known to almost ...

The UCLA Film & Television Archive continues its “Marquee Movies: Movies on Moviegoing” series with a pair of 1930s pictures. Starring James Cagney as a Broadway producer getting creative after the ...

Musical sequences don’t get much more iconic than this 1933 film’s “By a Waterfall” scene, which combines dance and synchronized swimming with extraordinary cinematography and set design. The ...

One of the best of the Warner Brothers showbiz musicals (1933), with James Cagney turning in a dynamite performance as an enterprising producer, and Busby Berkeley contributing some of his most ...