Footlights and Fools

Footlights and Fools is a 1929 American pre-Code film directed by William A. Seiter that was billed by Warner Brothers as an all-talking musical film and released in Vitaphone with Technicolor sequences. Plot Moore plays the "dual" role of a French singer in America who was originally an American chorus girl in France to acquire a new persona. Cast Colleen Moore as Betty Murphy / Fifi D'Auray Raymond Hackett as Jimmy Willet Fredric March as Gregory Pyne Virginia Lee Corbin as Claire Floyd Mickey Bennett as Call boy Edward Martindel as Chandler Cunnungham Adrienne D'Ambricourt as Jo Fred Howard as Treasurer (credited as Frederick Howard) Sydney Jarvis as Stage manager Cleve Moore as Press agent Andy Rice Jr. as Song plugger Ben Hendricks Jr. as Stage doorman Larry Banthim as Bud Burke Earl Bartlett as Trio Leader (uncredited) Nora Cecil (uncredited) Production background This film was Moore's fourth film under her contract signed February 28, 1929. It followed Smiling Irish Eyes, also with Moore and directed by Seiter.