Chester Kent produces musical comedies on the stage. With the beginning of the talkies era he changes to producing short musical prologues for movies. This is stressful to him, because he always needs new units and his rival is stealing his ideas. He can get an contract with a producer if he is able to stage in three days three new prologues. In spite of great problems, he does it.... (Full plot summary below)
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Chester Kent produces musical comedies on the stage. With the beginning of the talkies era he changes to producing short musical prologues for movies. This is stressful to him, because he always needs new units and his rival is stealing his ideas. He can get an contract with a producer if he is able to stage in three days three new prologues. In spite of great problems, he does it.
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| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleOne 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 engaging and bizarre production numbers. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonBusby Berkeley's finest hour comes in this flabbergasting Warners musical, with James Cagney as a Berkeley-like choreographer who directs, for a string of Broadway theaters, a series of "preview" dance numbers that blow your socks off. |
| The New YorkerPauline KaelFootlight 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. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzIt's the third successful teaming of choreographer Busby Berkeley with stars Dick Powell and Ruby Keeler. |
| User ReviewPrivate UI love this movie. Joan Blondell and James Cagney, and Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell, are legendary pairs and it's got a lot of great song and dance numbers. |
| User ReviewSera FI know 42nd Street sounds unstoppable, but what it you pair Ruby Keeler with James Cagney, tap dancing across a bar? Exactly. This show is even more about show businessâ??Cagney is a man put out of the musical business by the success of the talking picture. Rather than quit (though his wife quits him), he starts a new business: staging song-and-dance prologues for the moving pictures, complete with Live! Dancing! Girls! In pussycat costumes! In love slaves of the Orient costumes! In mermaid costumes! Joan Blondell plays his secretary and gal Fridayâ??in love with him though he doesnâ??t notice and instead takes up with her good-for-nothing â??friend.â?? He has two business partners robbing him blind, but he doesnâ??t notice because heâ??s so devoted to his business. MAN can he dance! Watching him demonstrate the look he wants for the pussycat number, as compared to what the cigar-smoking rehearsal director had arranged (the man looks much more like a bookie than a rehearsal director). . . Cagney is a physical genius, in and out of character. Keeler flaps her feet around and is supposedly really something, but sheâ??s as awkward as a baby chicken trying to fly, her scrawny legs flapping around and her scarecrow arms sticking out wildly. Cagney is liquid music, sound in a body, completely and naturally free. Unlike his troupe of dancing girlsâ??someone is leaking his numbers to the competition, so for three days, while they prep for a big production, an audition of sorts for a contract with the biggest picture-house owner in the country, he shuts everyone in the studio on lockdownâ??thatâ??s right, fifty dancing girls sleeping on cots in the rehearsal studio, in their pincurls and nighties, running for breakfast. You canâ??t beat a movie like this; it just doesnâ??t get better. |
| User ReviewAndy CHilarious and so very pre-code. Honeymoon Hotel is one of the most pre-code things I have ever seen. James Cagney was amazing and Joan Blondell was so great to watch. Some day I want to say, "As long as they've got sidewalks, you've got a job!" and kick someone out the door just like Joan Blondell. |
| User ReviewTimothy KThis is an example of one of those "super cutesie" type of flicks. Every character is loveable and silly in their own way. Though the Busby Berkeley dance numbers aren't the best, the achievement of complexity and style is still in others choreographers left field. |
| User ReviewSteve BJames Cagney + Dick Powell + Busby Berkeley = Hellyeah! |
| User ReviewThomas DJust great movie fun, with a little of everything. Spectacular show numbers. |
