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Footlight Fever (1941)

Footlight Fever poster
Directed by
Irving Reis
Genre
comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 09m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Two down on their luck showmen try to produce a Broadway play to make money. They scheme and juggle various mishaps along the way.

lightheartedwhimsicalfast-pacedsillybreezyplayfulescapistnostalgic

What happens

Footlight Fever is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Irving Reis and starring Alan Mowbray, Donald MacBride, Elisabeth Risdon and Elyse Knox. Produced and distributed by RKO Pictures, it is a sequel to the 1940 film Curtain Call. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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