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  • Footlight Parade (1933) #WarnerArchive #WarnerBros #FootlightParade
    James Cagney stars as a fledgling producer who finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences. Co-starring Joan Blondell and Dick Powell with spectacular Busby Berkeley dance sequences. Inducted into the Library of Congress National Film Registry.
    Directed By Lloyd Bacon
    Starring James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ruby Keeler
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 254

  • @paulakpacente
    @paulakpacente 5 років тому +133

    They broke the mold when God made Cagney. He's immortal in my book...

  • @arkady714
    @arkady714 2 роки тому +65

    What in the world COULDN'T James Cagney do??? As brilliant a dramatic actor as comedic... as great a dancer as there ever was and a signing voice to boot. Few people as talented have ever walked god's green earth.

    • @samwa8577
      @samwa8577 7 місяців тому +1

      In one word, sing

    • @Nick-ty9us
      @Nick-ty9us 3 місяці тому

      @@samwa8577 he could sing if you watch, Yankee doodle Dandy

    • @nancyaiken5732
      @nancyaiken5732 25 днів тому +1

      I couldn’t agree more! I simply adore him. 💗

  • @stephenindc9102
    @stephenindc9102 5 років тому +128

    And don't forget the great camera-work in this. Talented and inventive people, all-around. A truly great number.

    • @michaelmanus7765
      @michaelmanus7765 4 роки тому +2

      Several good songs in this movie that were written by the same two who did other movies such as Lullaby of Broadway. Harry Warren and Al Dubin. I really like this number and one never really associates Warner with putting out musicals. One of the sets if I recall was the most expensive set built in those days (the swimming pool dance number).

    • @davidroosa4561
      @davidroosa4561 2 роки тому +1

      i love where the camera does a 360 . very imaginative

  • @milajia8431
    @milajia8431 Рік тому +5

    1st WOMAN: He's shaking like he's got a chill
    2nd WOMAN: I know what it takes
    To cure him of the shakes
    1st MAN: Ah, what he wants is Shanghai Lil
    2nd MAN: Oh, she's a fascinatin' heathen
    3rd WOMAN: But say! She ain't been through the mill
    3rd MAN: Since she met that gob, she's acting like a snob
    4th WOMAN: Say, who the heck is Shanghai Lil?
    5th WOMAN: That Chinee devil!
    6th WOMAN: No, she's on the level, she can't hurt you and me
    7th WOMAN: That Oriental dame is detrimental to our industry
    8th WOMAN: You said it!
    4th MAN: I offered 'er a 'ouse in London
    5th MAN: And I a château in the ville
    6th MAN: She says she won't be mine for all of Palestine, Oy!
    9th WOMAN: They all go for Shanghai Lil
    SAILOR:
    Come on, let's drink to Lil
    He's looking for her still
    Drink her down to Shanghai Lil
    ALL:
    Hey!
    ALL:
    Here's to the gal who loves a sailor
    It's looking like she always will
    SAILOR:
    She's every sailor's pal, she's anybody's gal
    ALL:
    Drink her down to Shanghai Lil
    SAILORS:
    He can knock 'em down
    And he can lay 'em low
    Fighting for his . . .
    CAGNEY:
    Shanghai Lil!
    KEELER:
    I miss you very much a long time
    I think that you no love me still
    CAGNEY:
    I've been looking high and I've been looking low
    Looking for you, Shanghai Lil
    KEELER:
    I think you go with other sweethearts,
    And very many tears I spill
    SAILORS:
    He's been looking high and he's been looking low
    Looking for you, Shanghai Lil
    KEELER:
    I got new lover
    CAGNEY:
    You little devil, you're just a butterfly
    KEELER:
    I like new lover
    CAGNEY:
    You're still on the level, you can't kid this guy
    KEELER:
    I pray to Buddha in the joss-house
    And Buddha, he bring back my Bill
    SAILORS:
    He's been looking high and he's been looking low
    Looking for you, Shanghai Lil
    KEELER:
    Oh please, you take me on great big steamboat
    With you across the sea
    CAGNEY:
    I'd like to take you, but that great big steamboat
    Don't belong to me
    ALL:
    The stars that hang high over Shanghai
    Bring back the memory of a thrill
    I've been looking high and I've been looking low
    Looking for my Shanghai Lil
    I learnt to love her
    The little devil was just a butterfly
    But you discover something on the level
    Shining in her eye
    Oh, I've been trying to forget her
    But what's the use, I never will
    I've been looking high and I've been looking low
    Till I find my Shanghai Lil

  • @tadimaggio
    @tadimaggio 5 років тому +66

    30s musicals almost always had one screamingly funny element to them: numbers that were supposedly performed on theater stages, but were on the scale of "The Ten Commandments". Earlier in this very film, there was an incredibly elaborate "aquacade" number where you see the swimmers from above (neat trick), forming all sorts of kaleidoscopic patterns that you would never see or appreciate from eye level. Just take a look at all the camera movements, edits, closeups, and cross-cuts in "Shanghai Lil", and you realize that only a movie could bring this sequence to life. As it does, spectacularly.
    Oh, and by the way: Jimmy Cagney WAS A GOD! Compare his musical work here, and in "Yankee Doodle Dandy"; and then watch him play a bone-chilling psychopathic murderer in "White Heat" -- and you feel like crying out to God "Couldn't You have saved some talent for the rest of us?"

    • @b13ne
      @b13ne 2 роки тому

      I noticed the same since I saw the first Busby Berkeley's musical. Think to the final number in 42 Street for instance, or Remember my forgotten man from Golddigers of 1933. But isn't this stravaganza part of the ipnotical beauty of these films?

  • @chrisj.plamondon1828
    @chrisj.plamondon1828 6 років тому +69

    ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Masterpiece! Probably my favorite musical number of all time. This one had it all, sex and drugs and Jimmy & Ruby. Busby was a genius...❤❤❤

  • @58christiansful
    @58christiansful 2 роки тому +23

    ‘That Oriental dame is detrimental….She won’t be mine for all of Palestine…’
    The whole set-piece is a masterpiece.

  • @Fotosaurus56
    @Fotosaurus56 4 роки тому +37

    "Shanghai Lil" was the name of the B-24 Liberator that my Dad, a nosegunner, flew in the Pacific during WWII. That is what brought me here.

    • @justinandmaxgames5472
      @justinandmaxgames5472 3 роки тому +5

      Many plaudits to your dad!!! It was my dad who was a kid during the war that taught me all about B24s and these great musicals!

  • @micheltabeira677
    @micheltabeira677 3 роки тому +62

    Master scene, Ruby Keeler and James Cagney at the peak of their careers. Amazing choreography, fantastic photography, great Warren-Dubin composition and arrangement and expert direction of Mr. Berkeley!!

    • @moriahjacobs6131
      @moriahjacobs6131 3 роки тому +11

      You mean peak of youth. Cagney career was just getting started...

    • @jona5517
      @jona5517 2 роки тому +3

      @@moriahjacobs6131 indeed. Ruby didn't do much after the 30s. Yet Cagney was still pumping out movies

    • @joezeff7513
      @joezeff7513 2 роки тому +5

      Up until now, he'd only been known on-screen for his gangster movies. This scene was the first time he really danced in a movie. And, he had to fight to get the part.

  • @kat71580
    @kat71580 4 роки тому +26

    Fantastic, this incredible actor, dancer, James Cagney seemed to dance above the ground, so light on his feet..
    then be the toughest, meanest man..
    That's talent...Mr Cagney looked like my Grandfather., or Visa versa..
    Wonderful clip..what a bar room brawl
    ...👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

  • @jorgerobles9484
    @jorgerobles9484 2 роки тому +25

    One of the best musical movies ever, the cast is amazing, Cagney, Powell, Joan Blondell, Frank McHugh, Ruby Keeler, Hugh Herbert, etc

  • @gregorysullivan7175
    @gregorysullivan7175 5 місяців тому +6

    In the long annals of entertainment man oh man Cagney kicked ass. Born to do it.

  • @Elliot_jackson
    @Elliot_jackson 4 роки тому +30

    An amazing masterpiece that contains all major aspects of the period and its genre. Spectacular. One of those movies that truly becomes more wonderful each time I enjoy. The only drawback is that some people have to pay to view. So many years after release plus as a film enshrined in the National registery should mean footlight parade is forever free to view. Total, worldwide public property. Shame on any company charging any fee to stream this beautiful piece of our human soul.

    • @sclogse1
      @sclogse1 3 роки тому +1

      Just buy it on eBay.

  • @singers333
    @singers333 7 років тому +66

    James Cagney was HOT!

    • @jmommay0362
      @jmommay0362 7 років тому +13

      singers333 god I know it! My favorite actor ever! These actors now don't compare. I would have loved to have been his girl!

    • @singers333
      @singers333 7 років тому +10

      Jacqie Yates me too!!

    • @singers333
      @singers333 7 років тому +11

      Me too..his facial expressions, smile, his body movements and style..super hot!

    • @jmommay0362
      @jmommay0362 7 років тому +11

      He had it all!!!

    • @gooddognigel4947
      @gooddognigel4947 6 років тому +8

      One of a kind!

  • @raymondsteen5316
    @raymondsteen5316 5 років тому +23

    Cagney was tops when it comes to any of the tap dancing numbers as well as his portrayals in gangster tough guy films.
    James Cagney R.I.P
    ☆☆☆☆☆☆

  • @cynthiahawkins2389
    @cynthiahawkins2389 6 років тому +39

    CagMan was soooo light on his feet, and absolutely did this sequence seamlessly with Ruby..(we had a ginger cat, we named after him..his nickname was CagMan, please forgive..I admired James Cagney hugely)

    • @raymondsteen5316
      @raymondsteen5316 5 років тому +6

      James Cagney was among my top favorites!

    • @joezeff7513
      @joezeff7513 3 роки тому +4

      This was the first time Cagney ever danced in a movie, and it stunned audiences.

    • @jona5517
      @jona5517 2 роки тому +3

      My favorite actor...my second is Bogey.....but he couldn't dance and sing like Cagney.

  • @brianh3253
    @brianh3253 5 років тому +72

    Keeping in mind when this was made, I cant believe there was a black man in the scene just hanging out with the rest of the people. He wasn't even a waiter or something or something like that!

    • @ddivar8149
      @ddivar8149 5 років тому +11

      pre code was color blind apparently.

    • @michaelmanus7765
      @michaelmanus7765 4 роки тому +9

      @PalmerEldritch666 - You need to get an education and understand the context. The women of ill repute said "that" oriental meaning she as an individual draws more men's attention as she is more attractive. Take the chip off your shoulders and realize that there were racial issues then but that lyric was not one of them.

    • @lorrainepaul5928
      @lorrainepaul5928 4 роки тому +2

      What a shame they descended into the vileness regarding black people. Only allowed to do cameo type appearances. Even Louis Armstrong wasn't a full cast member.

    • @michaelmanus7765
      @michaelmanus7765 4 роки тому +1

      @PalmerEldritch666 I can certainly agree that American Cinema in 1933 had engaged stereotypes.

    • @michaelmanus7765
      @michaelmanus7765 4 роки тому +5

      @@lorrainepaul5928 What was exactly vile? We can agree stereotypes were used. What drives the movies is entertainment value and $$$. One year later came the Hayes Act that stymied anything that they though was sexually charged and immoral. Meanwhile, 1930's had several films with all black casts and again - designed for entertainment and $$$ with an expected audience that was primarily black. Incidentally, you'll find in the 40's various talented black entertainers doing "cameos" and in some instances are show stoppers. Here is some amazing talent
      that is highlighted - ua-cam.com/video/JTwy8ruyY40/v-deo.html

  • @galemanning6842
    @galemanning6842 6 років тому +56

    Oh my, he’s beautiful. This scene has it all. I just love that, in a matter of minutes, he goes from starting a bar brawl to singing and dancing - and even in this short clip he blows me away!
    Maybe by modern standards he’s not as “handsome” as today’s actors, but to me he’s infinitely more attractive. I hate to say it, but there doesn’t seem to be much more to most of the actors now than just that - looks.

    • @jacquelinesternberg8461
      @jacquelinesternberg8461 6 років тому +11

      I was wildly in love with Cagney when I was a kid, watching his movies on TV. (I think when I saw this one, they cut part of this scene and edited part of it so the spaced-out opium blondes were not shown, and you couldn't see that one blonde whose boobs were practically hanging out of her dress). Cagney was not conventionally handsome, but his lithe, animal-like grace and extraordinarily expressive face and eyes (not to mention how he said his lines) just floored me. For all his incredible sexiness, he remained married and faithful to one woman, his wife, Frances, for 64 years.

    • @ChristChickAutistic
      @ChristChickAutistic 6 років тому +18

      Gale Manning I've loved this man since I was 12. He went Home when I was 19, and even now at 51, I still love him. That smile, those eyes, that grace, just wow! I have heard stories about other actresses in his time that did their best to get in his pants, to no avail. He was a one woman man, and that's really the sexiest thing of all. RIP Jimmy C, you were the bees knees!

    • @moriahjacobs6131
      @moriahjacobs6131 3 роки тому

      Remember today with the help of a make up artist and the right light, anyone can be luscious. You have to something with it. Wow, I haven't been to a movie since....?

    • @seanstrider2185
      @seanstrider2185 Рік тому +1

      ​@@ChristChickAutistic Spoken like a true lady.

    • @janebaker966
      @janebaker966 Рік тому +2

      Just watched this. So much sub text in there and social commentary if you want to analyse it but I don't,but you could. But James Cagney. Never seen his gangster movies. Was astonished when I saw him start to dance in a film with Bob Hope. Realised then how talented this man was. It's his face. The obvious intelligence. He doesn't have to say or do a lot because somehow his face says it and it's the tiniest of facial movements too.

  • @aedynjakpoetry
    @aedynjakpoetry 3 роки тому +14

    If only we could rekindle this kind of magical movie making.

  • @bernadettemurray8260
    @bernadettemurray8260 Рік тому +3

    Dresses would have been risqué for the time.

  • @JacobLomax
    @JacobLomax 3 роки тому +11

    I wish the whole movie was about this Opium Den !!! Surreal and erotic in a decadent proto- Bob Fosse way.

    • @Cenindo
      @Cenindo 2 роки тому +1

      They stop short of showing any of the ladies actually smoking opium (a little too much even pre-Code, perhaps), but it is obvious that they are meant to be spaced out.

  • @michellelovespink2660
    @michellelovespink2660 Рік тому +6

    He was 5'5" but still pulled off the tough guy.

  • @nottavictim5
    @nottavictim5 4 роки тому +18

    Absolutely extraordinary! A dream sequence! How bout the gorgeous women and costumes 38 sec? Then Ruby and Cagney’s sublime vocals and dancing

  • @martinpictrusiewicz8506
    @martinpictrusiewicz8506 Рік тому +11

    Another Busby Berkeley masterpiece

  • @nivagnoswal
    @nivagnoswal 5 років тому +17

    the great james cagney in of my favorite movies of his...too bad for the hayes code...movies just weren't the same thereafter...

  • @jackprecip5389
    @jackprecip5389 Рік тому +4

    Beautiful scantily clad women getting stoned in a Chinese opium den, thank God this great film was made before the Hays code.

  • @sontheen
    @sontheen 4 роки тому +16

    Gotta love the very pre-code last line of the movie: James Cagney proposes to Joan Blondell and then says, "I'll make ya LOVE it!"

    • @Arkelk2010
      @Arkelk2010 3 місяці тому +1

      I thought the movie was pre-code considering the women and what they were almost wearing.

    • @nancyaiken5732
      @nancyaiken5732 25 днів тому

      Yes, what a fabulous closing line! ❤

  • @josephgaughan9107
    @josephgaughan9107 5 років тому +15

    The full scene of Shanghai Lil begins in the dressing room where Cagney finds his lead actor drunk. They struggle and Cagney makes his famous fall down the stairs. Then he comes to life, singing and dancing the role himself. The scene includes American sailors marching in formation and displaying the image of FDR! At the end producers in the audience sign a contract and Cagney, back stage again, proposes to Joan Blondell. The film ends.
    If you want to watch the entire Shanghai Lil scene, it should include this complete sequence. If not you are being ripped off!

  • @johnparadise3134
    @johnparadise3134 5 років тому +12

    Temples reaching to the stars, international bazaars
    Chummy little Chinese ladies, drinking at those dinky bars
    Balmy breezes rom the sea, blossoms in the cherry tree
    Everything is so familiar, but where, oh, where is she
    I've covered every little highway
    And I've been climbing every hill
    I've been looking high and I've been looking low
    Looking for my Shanghai Lil
    The stars that hang high over Shanghai
    Bring back the memory of a thrill
    I've been looking high and I've been looking low
    Looking for my Shanghai Lil
    I learned to love her
    The little devil was just a butterfly
    But you'd discover something on the level
    Shining in her eye
    Oh, I've been trying to forget her
    But what's the use, I never will
    I'll be looking high and I'll be looking low
    Till I find my Shanghai Lil
    Anxiously I cast an eye on each street throughout Shanghai
    Plenty Oriental ladies beckon as they pass me by
    But my mind just can't erase one outstanding lovely face
    So, until the day I find out, I'll never leave this place
    I've covered every little highway
    And I've been climbing every hill
    I've been looking high and I've been looking low
    Looking for my Shanghai Lil
    The stars that hang high over Shanghai
    Bring back the memory of a thrill
    I've been looking high and I've been looking low
    Looking for my Shanghai Lil
    I learned to love her
    The little devil was just a butterfly
    But you'd discover something on the level
    Shining in her eye
    Oh, I've been trying to forget her
    But what's the use, I never will
    I'll be looking high and I'll be looking low
    Till I find my Shanghai Lil
    ********************
    As performed in the film "Footlight Parade"
    by James Cagney, Ruby Keeler & Chorus (1933):
    1st WOMAN:
    Looking for your Shanghai Lil?
    MAN:
    No, she ain't your Shanghai Lil
    2nd WOMAN:
    Don't give him flowers
    He'll just take your flowers straight to Shanghai Lil
    BARTENDER:
    No, I ain't seen Shanghai Lil
    SAILOR:
    Hello, Bill, you old galoot
    Where'd you get that monkey suit?
    CAGNEY:
    Don't tell anyone you saw me
    Or I'll rap you in the snoot
    SAILOR:
    Hey, you jumped ship. Now what's your game?
    CAGNEY:
    Oh, just looking for a dame
    SAILOR:
    Staying here, you're taking chances
    CAGNEY:
    Yeah? Well I'll stay, just the same
    I've covered every little highway
    And I've been climbing every hill
    I've been looking high and I've been looking low,
    Looking for my Shanghai Lil
    The stars that hang high over Shanghai
    Bring back the memory of a thrill
    I've been looking high and I've been looking low
    Looking for my Shanghai Lil
    I learnt to love her
    The little devil was just a butterfly
    But you discover something on the level
    Shining in her eye
    Oh, I've been trying to forget her
    But what's the use? I never will
    I've been looking high and I've been looking low
    Looking for my Shanghai Lil
    I've got to have another brandy
    1st WOMAN: He's shaking like he's got a chill
    2nd WOMAN: I know what it takes
    To cure him of the shakes
    1st MAN: Ah, what he wants is Shanghai Lil
    2nd MAN: Oh, she's a fascinatin' heathen
    3rd WOMAN: But say! She ain't been through the mill
    3rd MAN: Since she met that gob, she's acting like a snob
    4th WOMAN: Say, who the heck is Shanghai Lil?
    5th WOMAN: That Chinee devil!
    6th WOMAN: No, she's on the level, she can't hurt you and me
    7th WOMAN: That Oriental dame is detrimental to our industry
    8th WOMAN: You said it!
    4th MAN: I offered 'er a 'ouse in London
    5th MAN: And I a château in the ville
    6th MAN: She says she won't be mine for all of Palestine, Oy!
    9th WOMAN: They all go for Shanghai Lil
    SAILOR:
    Come on, let's drink to Lil
    He's looking for her still
    Drink her down to Shanghai Lil
    ALL:
    Hey!
    ALL:
    Here's to the gal who loves a sailor
    It's looking like she always will
    SAILOR:
    She's every sailor's pal, she's anybody's gal
    ALL:
    Drink her down to Shanghai Lil
    SAILORS:
    He can knock 'em down
    And he can lay 'em low
    Fighting for his . . .
    CAGNEY:
    Shanghai Lil!
    KEELER:
    I miss you very much a long time
    I think that you no love me still
    CAGNEY:
    I've been looking high and I've been looking low
    Looking for you, Shanghai Lil
    KEELER:
    I think you go with other sweethearts,
    And very many tears I spill
    SAILORS:
    He's been looking high and he's been looking low
    Looking for you, Shanghai Lil
    KEELER:
    I got new lover
    CAGNEY:
    You little devil, you're just a butterfly
    KEELER:
    I like new lover
    CAGNEY:
    You're still on the level, you can't kid this guy
    KEELER:
    I pray to Buddha in the joss-house
    And Buddha, he bring back my Bill
    SAILORS:
    He's been looking high and he's been looking low
    Looking for you, Shanghai Lil
    KEELER:
    Oh please, you take me on great big steamboat
    With you across the sea
    CAGNEY:
    I'd like to take you, but that great big steamboat
    Don't belong to me
    ALL:
    The stars that hang high over Shanghai
    Bring back the memory of a thrill
    I've been looking high and I've been looking low
    Looking for my Shanghai Lil
    I learnt to love her
    The little devil was just a butterfly
    But you discover something on the level
    Shining in her eye
    Oh, I've been trying to forget her
    But what's the use, I never will
    I've been looking high and I've been looking low
    Till I find my Shanghai Lil

    • @themermaidstale5008
      @themermaidstale5008 4 роки тому +1

      John Paradise Thanks for commenting the lyrics. ❤️ it!

  • @allison9090
    @allison9090 6 років тому +30

    As far as I'm concerned James Carney is the sexiest man in the history of movies. He leaves me breathless.

    • @jacquelinesternberg8461
      @jacquelinesternberg8461 6 років тому +7

      No question about it. When I was a kid, I was soooo in love with him. Still am.

    • @ChristChickAutistic
      @ChristChickAutistic 6 років тому +9

      He was my first love, when I was 12, and all these years later, he still is. I think he's why I've always loved gingers, bad boys, dancers, and men who are shorter and compact with hooded eyes and killer smirks.

    • @maryszekely3999
      @maryszekely3999 5 років тому +4

      same when i was a kid i was head over heels for him

    • @raymondsteen5316
      @raymondsteen5316 5 років тому +6

      Cagney was great in "Yankee Doodle Dandy" of where he won an Oscar for best actor. But too bad he wasn't even nominated for best actor in "White Heat".
      ☆☆☆☆☆

    • @blackjakko
      @blackjakko 4 роки тому +2

      Me too! The all singing dancing OG! Talk about charisma! Take me away Jimmy Cay...

  • @johnwhitney3500
    @johnwhitney3500 Рік тому +3

    Disappointed - not even close to being the whole scene! WB is being cheap!!

    • @virghammer1
      @virghammer1 Рік тому +1

      You SAID THAT Right !! And the way they keep Angels with Dirty Faces from being shown on TCM - obviously just because of Greed … is really, truly disgusting
      SUCH a Great American classic like that?
      BAH. $$$$$
      Give me a break, new Warner Bros. -
      not only do I smell a rat, I smell a real rotten stink.

  • @jamessmithe5490
    @jamessmithe5490 3 роки тому +3

    You won't see any opium dens with scantily clad women in movies made after 1933. Amazing number. Berkleys best work was in the 30s I think.

  • @RealFrankZappa
    @RealFrankZappa Рік тому +7

    James is the King.

  • @madamem9499
    @madamem9499 Рік тому +2

    I don't quite like Ruby Keeler. She looked like she's having a hard time keeping in balance. James Cagney was a better dancer in this clip.

    • @kmterpin
      @kmterpin 4 місяці тому

      Yes, her arms are flailing all about as she tap dances, while Cagney, smooth as butter, moves his arms in synch with the footwork. Yet Ruby Keeler was supposed to be a professional & better dancer??

  • @anthonyfrew1571
    @anthonyfrew1571 Рік тому +4

    Jimmy Cagney was a fine dancer - Yankie doodle Dandy 1942 - shows of his dance work to the best advantage - but this is also very noteworthy - and what a surprise to an audience who new him best for his gangster roles

  • @Cenindo
    @Cenindo 3 роки тому +6

    1933 ... and hardly a single person onscreen can be any younger than 20. It is like watching ghosts. These people are gone, every last one of them.

  • @glennreeve9686
    @glennreeve9686 10 місяців тому +4

    A Hollywood great....forever.

  • @Reneesfun
    @Reneesfun 3 роки тому +6

    Love the pre-code and the talent and majesty or it…

  • @bigk8210
    @bigk8210 Рік тому +5

    How bittersweet it must have been. Such INCREDIBLE films... But knowing that once it was out of theaters one wouldn't get to see it again.

  • @maxhyper2863
    @maxhyper2863 4 роки тому +7

    1:06 - 1:15 Art Deco aesthetic so stunning. looks like de Lempicka painting.

  • @ddivar8149
    @ddivar8149 6 років тому +9

    Love the jazzy sound on the bar counter. Starting the swingy music sound. Hes so natural acting like shes the star because he was just subbing unexpectedly for the drunk.

  • @gerrynightingale9045
    @gerrynightingale9045 5 років тому +6

    *I think, from the perspective of 'Story/Song/ Tandem-Tap/Artistic Interpretation'/that
    this is possibly the finest performance of it's kind ever put on film*
    (yes, the Nicholas Brothers and many others like 'Fred/Ginger'...and the 'best of them all'
    Shirley/'Bojangles' did surpass this single performance...but not in terms of 'conveying the
    meaning' of the "Shanghai Lil" number had with Cagney and Keeler. They were 'magic' in
    this performance!
    (I personally feel much of Cagney's performing abilities were completely wasted or
    'mis-Directed' in many of the movies he was in...I think he did them strictly for the money as
    well as being in need of 'screen-time' to not be thought-of as 'stale' or 'out-of-date')
    "One/Two/Three" was executed brilliantly by Cagney, who proved he still 'had it' as the over-
    worked Coke executive...his comedic-timing and 'expressions' were on full display despite
    having not played that 'type' of role in decades!

  • @immaterialimmaterial5195
    @immaterialimmaterial5195 2 роки тому +6

    Breathtakingly beautiful and magical

  • @sclogse1
    @sclogse1 5 років тому +16

    That den of girls...wow. the look. This needs to be seen in a revival theater..one with the correct format giant box screen.

    • @nottavictim5
      @nottavictim5 4 роки тому

      sclogse1 the beauties at 29 secs???! That dress!!’

    • @nottavictim5
      @nottavictim5 4 роки тому +2

      How bout the strung out beauties at 1’05-1”18?

    • @themermaidstale5008
      @themermaidstale5008 4 роки тому

      Notta Victim Almost a dress jajajajaja!

    • @sclogse1
      @sclogse1 3 роки тому

      @@nottavictim5 Exactly. John Ford did this too in an early film. Awesome mood.

  • @englefilms
    @englefilms 5 років тому +10

    A superb number, a powerhouse!

  • @Dennis-di4cx
    @Dennis-di4cx 6 років тому +18

    This is NOT the full scene!

    • @gdouglas999
      @gdouglas999 5 років тому +3

      Yup....the best part is still to follow!

  • @nina241085
    @nina241085 Рік тому +2

    Came here from Lily Savage version

    • @Summer21.
      @Summer21. 6 місяців тому

      Me too. 😃

  • @sutlers2day
    @sutlers2day 6 років тому +7

    Harry Warren has a fondness for the opera and it shows in this scene. I can almost hear "CARMEN ' in it.

  • @gerrynightingale9045
    @gerrynightingale9045 5 років тому +8

    *Take a close look at (**2:13**)...and you'll see John Garfield in an uncredited role as a'sailor in bar-fight'...this must surely be one of his first appearances (maybe first ever) infront of a camera!*

    • @ironduke2000
      @ironduke2000 4 роки тому +5

      There's some controversy as to whether that bit player is Garfield. In fact film historians say it's NOT him.

    • @poorthing
      @poorthing 10 місяців тому

      I immediately noticed that actor
      & thought...I know him!

  • @mianom
    @mianom Рік тому +2

    This isn't the "full scene!" Where is: "I'd like to take you, but that great big steamboat
    Don't belong to me?"

  • @gooddognigel4947
    @gooddognigel4947 6 років тому +15

    I love James Cagney.

  • @gdouglas999
    @gdouglas999 5 років тому +20

    This is NOT the full scene. In fact, it has left out the best part---the three minutes that follows the end of this video.

    • @goback3spaces
      @goback3spaces 5 років тому +6

      You're right. And it omits Jimmy falling down the stairs before he begins the number.

    • @ShindlerReal
      @ShindlerReal 3 роки тому +1

      ua-cam.com/video/vlV_Qs-b5Z8/v-deo.html

    • @gdouglas999
      @gdouglas999 3 роки тому

      @@ShindlerReal Thank you!!!!!

  • @davidhutchinson5233
    @davidhutchinson5233 2 роки тому +3

    That old Vaudeville crowd...those folks sure were talented weren't they?

  • @johnmagill3072
    @johnmagill3072 6 років тому +9

    So many stunningly beautiful women in this film

  • @esmeraldaslifefandango7594
    @esmeraldaslifefandango7594 7 років тому +10

    Absolutely wonderful! Thanks for posting.

  • @philiphalpenny9761
    @philiphalpenny9761 6 років тому +29

    85 years old this year. Looks great. Cagney at his impish peak.

    • @fscap811
      @fscap811 5 років тому +1

      He was born in 1899 and died in 1986, just shy of his 87 birthday....where do you get 85 years old this year...that year would've been around 1984 and you certainly didn't post this 35 years ago.

    • @bricology
      @bricology 5 років тому +7

      @@fscap811 -- I think that they meant *Footlight Parade* was 85 years old this year.

    • @fscap811
      @fscap811 5 років тому +3

      @@bricology ok, that makes sense...thanks

  • @SandViolet
    @SandViolet 7 років тому +17

    Wonderful number!

  • @bobmalack481
    @bobmalack481 2 роки тому +2

    Neither Cagney or Keeler could really sing, but it didn't matter, they could both act and dance.

  • @violetta6283
    @violetta6283 Рік тому +1

    From 上海リル( Japanese version)
    I really curious ab thismovie!!
    Wish I can watch on Netflix or others!

  • @piev5060
    @piev5060 3 роки тому +8

    une scène magnifique !!!

  • @plutoshearer3650
    @plutoshearer3650 3 роки тому +3

    "She said she won't be mine for all of Palestine, Oy." 🤣🤣

  • @tommybjorling4977
    @tommybjorling4977 5 років тому +5

    I love J Cagneys steppdancing hese balance and very tecnic's footchans
    he had a one still!

  • @violinsane108
    @violinsane108 2 роки тому +2

    The Cagney and Keeler dance scene was way TOO SHORT!

  • @miltonbrewster
    @miltonbrewster Рік тому +3

    NOT the FULL SCENE.

  • @shaneholden9352
    @shaneholden9352 5 років тому +6

    Lily savage brought me here

  • @tomfoerster2624
    @tomfoerster2624 6 років тому +4

    WOW... 1933... GREAT !.... Tribute to all the actors.... espacially to Shanghai Lil !

  • @susankutner3217
    @susankutner3217 4 роки тому +5

    absolutely LOVE THIS

  • @meiyeelee800
    @meiyeelee800 6 років тому +9

    What a style !

  • @bambinoandmore46
    @bambinoandmore46 4 роки тому +2

    At 3.12 Cagney looks off camera at someone else.

  • @jools99caithness17
    @jools99caithness17 4 роки тому +3

    Lily Savage did a brilliant cover of this

  • @MrSpamcan1
    @MrSpamcan1 5 років тому +3

    despite saying that this is full scene ,its not, end and start cut, its such a good number,warners would rather have you buy the whole film

  • @jona5517
    @jona5517 2 роки тому +2

    Excellent movie.... pre code were so good.

  • @paulakpacente
    @paulakpacente 4 роки тому +4

    So glad that this has been restored!

  • @cecilyerker
    @cecilyerker 6 років тому +8

    I'm laughing because Cagney is CLEARLY a tenor but they've got him singing lower notes than his natural range like a baritone and sometimes his voice cracks.

    • @ddivar8149
      @ddivar8149 6 років тому +3

      Id rather have it be a little cracked and natural in that situation than a say Nelson Eddy. lol

    • @triciaerimo
      @triciaerimo 2 роки тому

      Maybe he cracked simply because he wasn't a great singer. In "Never Steal Anything Small", "The West Point Story" or "Yankee Doodle Dandy", he "talks-the-songs". Maybe in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" too, I'm not sure. In "The Oklahoma Kid" he sings, but nothing extraordinary.
      PS: Chris Merritt could sing a low A (A2) without cracking and he was a tenor.

  • @MrElliotc02
    @MrElliotc02 6 місяців тому +1

    She would not be mine for all of Palestine...

  • @scottleft3672
    @scottleft3672 4 роки тому +2

    FULL SCENE NOT... it continues into the best bit of jingoism ive ever seen, patriotic fervor...done right.

    • @joezeff7513
      @joezeff7513 3 роки тому +1

      And, it cuts a little bit off of the beginning as Cagney is forced to take over the role and comes down the staircase onto the stage to start the action.

  • @isammolina4842
    @isammolina4842 4 роки тому +2

    Esta barra tan cosmopolita me hace pensar en Casablanca.En la epica de la Gran Depresion cuanto trabajo dio el cine;y q abundante mano de obra.👀🌹🌿🌹🌿🌹🌿

  • @nisaba5752
    @nisaba5752 4 роки тому +2

    That piece that she did when she popped up on that bar is *hard!* I can't imagine doing that on a bar!!!

  • @tylervenkersammy2365
    @tylervenkersammy2365 Рік тому +1

    3:23 - 4:24 Tap Dance Routine

  • @nancystillman664
    @nancystillman664 5 років тому +4

    wow! that tap dancing!!! never saw this film before!!

    • @laurabrodianfreasberaha4125
      @laurabrodianfreasberaha4125 4 місяці тому +1

      Did you happen to notice when Sailor Bill snatches Shanghai Lil's corsage, sniffs it, then tosses it away?

    • @nancystillman664
      @nancystillman664 3 місяці тому

      @@laurabrodianfreasberaha4125 Sorry! just saw your response....and checked out Cagney taking the corsage! Lil I san amazing dancer...and I've never seen Cagney tap that well with another partner... I think it helps that they're about the same size every which way!!! Maybe I should join UA-cam, not sure how to get notifications from it.

  • @garymazzeo3490
    @garymazzeo3490 4 роки тому +2

    This is not the full scene

  • @upswillie
    @upswillie 3 роки тому +1

    They did it on a 2 1/2ft. bar...Are Your Freakin Kiddin Me!

  • @Dennis-di4cx
    @Dennis-di4cx 5 років тому +3

    NOT the full scene, by any means.

  • @winstonsmith9533
    @winstonsmith9533 4 роки тому +2

    Not the full scene, phooey

  • @ShindlerReal
    @ShindlerReal 5 років тому +2

    Not a full scene unfortunately

  • @philiphalpenny9761
    @philiphalpenny9761 6 років тому +9

    No offence to Ruby Keeler , but i wish Ginger Rogers was sharing this dance duet with the great Cagney...

    • @Kjt853
      @Kjt853 5 років тому +6

      Philip Halpenny ... Yeah, I don't know what it was about Ruby Keeler that made her so popular. She couldn't sing, her acting was mediocre, and I always found her dancing leaden-footed.

    • @domdoot8715
      @domdoot8715 5 років тому +7

      @@Kjt853 All true - but she was cute as a button!

    • @Kjt853
      @Kjt853 5 років тому +4

      Dom Doot ... She was also married to Al Jolson, which couldn't have hurt her career.

    • @leemclaury6251
      @leemclaury6251 5 років тому +2

      I think this is Warner brothers where they all worked .

    • @robertsmith5970
      @robertsmith5970 4 роки тому +7

      An innocent charm and warmth,on and off screen by all accounts,coupled with great beauty is what she had in my opinion.Ginger was great too though.

  • @bambinoandmore46
    @bambinoandmore46 6 років тому +2

    Whos he winking to in the scene where she jumps out of the barrel? A couple of sailors drop their rifles in the end routine

  • @oltedders
    @oltedders 4 роки тому +1

    A bar with an opium den in the back! I'm in.

  • @XX-gy7ue
    @XX-gy7ue 4 роки тому +1

    why did you cut the end ? never-the-less
    MAGNIFICENT

  • @andrewwilliams2353
    @andrewwilliams2353 9 днів тому

    all that build up for Ruby Keeler ? I think not/ She was just pathetic

  • @davidroosa4561
    @davidroosa4561 2 роки тому +1

    i love cagney dancing. especially because i grew up seeing him as a gangster

  • @moeker8826
    @moeker8826 3 роки тому +1

    Hay muchos motivos por los cuales esta película es de culto extremo y un clásico, ya casi cumple los 100 años, pocas veces me he maravillado por una película como lo hice con esta, es realmente perfecta.

  • @stevepaul6955
    @stevepaul6955 4 роки тому +2

    At 2:13 that's John Garfield.

    • @ironduke2000
      @ironduke2000 4 роки тому

      it's a lookalike, not Garfield.

  • @bh9225
    @bh9225 Рік тому +1

    I own this on blu ray. Great, great movie!

  • @michaelwhitaker9719
    @michaelwhitaker9719 4 місяці тому

    Who else is here because of The Great Movie Ride at Hollywood Studios?

  • @oldcaretaker
    @oldcaretaker Місяць тому

    It seems that all the extras in these old movies had to do was be able to pull strange faces no acting skills to spoil the movie

  • @almeggs3247
    @almeggs3247 6 років тому +3

    Fantastic

  • @clivemorris1
    @clivemorris1 3 роки тому +1

    Thank you

  • @Pauline-wu4ej
    @Pauline-wu4ej 4 роки тому +1

    Small men can pack a powerful punch!

  • @davidparris7167
    @davidparris7167 2 місяці тому

    Beautiful crisp B&W print makes for a feast for the eyes.