Footlights and Fools

Mirth! Melody! Drama! Color!

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.

1929

Music·Drama

1h 18min

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Top Billed Cast

Colleen Moore
Betty Murphy / Fifi D'Auray
Raymond Hackett
Jimmy Willet
Fredric March
Gregory Pyne
Virginia Lee Corbin
Claire Floyd
Edward Martindel
Chandler Cunnungham
Adrienne D'Ambricourt
Jo
Mickey Bennett
Call boy
Sydney Jarvis
Stage manager
Cleve Moore
Press agent
Ben Hendricks Jr.
Stage doorman
Larry Banthim
Bud Burke
Earl Bartlett
Trio Leader (uncredited)
Nora Cecil
(uncredited)

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