Footlight Parade - Shanghai Lil scene

Footlight Parade is a 1933 American pre-Code musical film starring James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell and featuring Frank McHugh, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert and Ruth Donnelly. The film was written by Manuel Seff and James Seymour based on a story by Robert Lord and Peter Milne, and was directed by Lloyd Bacon, with musical numbers created and directed by Busby Berkeley. The film's songs were written by Harry Warren (music), Al Dubin (lyrics), Sammy Fain (music) and Irving Kahal (lyrics), and include "By a Waterfall", "Honeymoon Hotel" and "Shanghai Lil".
In 1992, Footlight Parade was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
(Source Wikipedia 2021)

[@philiphalpenny3783]

Loved this loose-limbed Cagney tap routine even more than that unusual stiff leg Cohan that he approximated in 1942's 'Yankee Doodle Dandy'. Wish he had the chance to do more Busby Berkeley musicals...

[@MariePommer]

🎑👁️👁️🔹 Love This Movie 🎥