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Footlight Serenade (1942)

80 min  -  Comedy | Musical | Romance  -   1 August 1942 (USA)
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A boxing champ gets involved with a Broadway show and a shapely chorine...who's engaged to his new sparring partner.

Director:

Gregory Ratoff
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Cast

Complete credited cast:
John Payne ...
William J. 'Bill' Smith
Betty Grable ...
Pat Lambert
Victor Mature ...
Tommy Lundy
Jane Wyman ...
Flo La Verne
James Gleason James Gleason ...
Bruce McKay
Phil Silvers ...
Slap
Cobina Wright Cobina Wright ...
Estelle Evans (as Cobina Wright Jr.)
June Lang June Lang ...
June
Frank Orth Frank Orth ...
Mike the stage doorman
Mantan Moreland Mantan Moreland ...
Amos. Tommy's Dresser (as Manton Moreland)
Irving Bacon Irving Bacon ...
Stagehand
Charles Tannen Charles Tannen ...
Charlie, Stage manager
George Dobbs George Dobbs ...
Frank, Dance director
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Storyline

Conceited World Champion boxer Tommy Lundy decides to test his popularity in a Broadway show. Tommy always has an eye for the ladies and he starts paying attention to beautiful chorus girl Pat Lambert. Pat's boyfriend Bill Smith isn't impressed with Tommy even though Tommy gets him a boxing part in the show. When Tommy finds out that Pat and Bill were secretly together the night before the show opens, he angrily plans to turn the boxing scene with Bill into a real bout. Written by Gary Jackson <garyjack5@cogeco.ca>  

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Plot Keywords:

Broadway Show | Boxer | Beautiful Woman

Genres:

Comedy | Musical | Romance

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Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

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Also Known As:

Baci carezze e pugni See more »

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Technical Specs

Runtime:

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Recording)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1
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Trivia

After this black-and-white production finished, Twentieth Century-Fox would implement the policy of utilizing Technicolor for all future Betty Grable features. The only monochromatic exception would be her guest spot in Four Jills in a Jeep, crooning the standard from 1908, "Cuddle Up a Little Closer" (music by Karl Hoschna, lyrics by Otto A. Harbach -- which she already had performed the year before in the Technicolored Coney Island. Miss Grable would not exempt from the Technicolor clause two black-and-white dramas offered her: The Razor's Edge (Anne Baxter's Oscar-winning part) and Pickup on South Street (the Jean Peters role). For Betty's final picture, How to Be Very, Very Popular, Color by DeLuxe was employed. See more »

Quotes

Tommy Lundy: Will you come into my dressing room? Said the spider to the fly.
Pat Lambert: Oh, thank you, Mr. Spider, but I'm very, very shy.
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Soundtracks

"Except with You"
(uncredited)
Music by Ralph Rainger
Lyrics by Leo Robin
Sung by Cobina Wright See more »