5 Movies Starring Ruby Keeler

Footlight Parade

Footlight Parade

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1933-10-21

Languages:

English, French

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

104 min

Rated:

G

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (3086 Reviews)

Director:

Lloyd Bacon

Cast:

Writer:

Manuel Seff (screen play)

James Seymour (screen play)

Fullplot:

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.

42nd Street

42nd Street

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1933-03-11

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

89 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (7434 Reviews)

Director:

Lloyd Bacon

Cast:

Writer:

Rian James (screen play)

James Seymour (screen play)

Bradford Ropes (based on the novel by)

Fullplot:

Renowned Broadway producer/director Julian Marsh is hired to put together a new musical revue. It's being financed by Abner Dillon to provide a starring vehicle for his girlfriend, songstress Dorothy Brock. Marsh, who is quite ill, is a difficult task master working long hours and continually pushing the cast to do better. When Brock breaks her ankle one of the chorus girls, Peggy Sawyer, gets her big chance to be the star. She also finds romance along the way.

Gold Diggers of 1933

Gold Diggers of 1933

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1933-05-27

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

97 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

8.1 (4954 Reviews)

Director:

Mervyn LeRoy

Cast:

Writer:

Erwin S. Gelsey (screenplay)

James Seymour (screenplay)

David Boehm (dialogue)

Ben Markson (dialogue)

Avery Hopwood (based on a play by)

Fullplot:

Chorus girls Polly, Carol and Trixie are ecstatic when they learn that Broadway producer Barney Hopkins is putting on a new show. He promises all of the girls parts in the new show and even hires their neighbor Brad Roberts, an unknown composer, to write some of the music. There's only one problem: he doesn't have the money to bankroll it all. That problem is solved when Brad turns out to be quite rich but he insists that he not perform. When opening night comes, the juvenile lead can't go on forcing Brad to take the stage. He's recognized of course and his upper crust family wants him to quit. When he refuses, they tell him to end his relationship with Polly or face having his income cut off. When Brad's snobbish brother Lawrence mistakes Carol for Polly, the girls decide to have a bit of fun and teach him a lesson.

Dames

Dames

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1934-09-01

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

91 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (1157 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Delmer Daves (screen play)

Robert Lord (story)

Delmer Daves (story)

Fullplot:

Multi-millionaire Ezra Ounce wants to start a campaign against 'filthy' forms of entertainment, like Broadway-Shows. He comes to his relatives families and makes them members of his morale-boosting campaign. But Jimmy, another relative is producing a show, starring Ezra's niece Barbara. But he had bad luck with his backer, this person has given him an invalid check. Another of his victims, the show-girl Mabel has the idea of blackmailing Horace, Barbara's father, whom she has met before in a slightly compromising situation to get the money.

Mother Carey's Chickens

Mother Carey's Chickens

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1938-07-29

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

82 min

Rated:

Approved

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (131 Reviews)

Director:

Rowland V. Lee

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Kate Douglas Wiggin (novel)

Kate Douglas Wiggin (play)

Rachel Crothers (play)

S.K. Lauren (screenplay)

Gertrude Purcell (screenplay)

Fullplot:

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