21 Oct 1933
Footlight Parade
A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going audiences.
Bureau of Missing Persons
SHAME is responsible for the "amnesia" plague which has swept America!
Butch Saunders has been transferred to Missing Persons because he was too brutal in other police work...
Top Billed Cast
Bette Davis Norma Roberts
Lewis Stone Police Captain Webb
Pat O'Brien Detective Butch Saunders
Glenda Farrell Belle Howard Saunders
Allen Jenkins Detective Joe Musik
Ruth Donnelly Gwendolyn 'Pete' Harris
Hugh Herbert Detective Hank Slade
Alan Dinehart Therme Roberts
Marjorie Gateson Mrs. Paul
Tad Alexander Caesar Paul
Noel Francis Alice Crane
Wallis Clark Mr. Paul
Adrian Morris Detective Irish Conlin
Clay Clement Burton C. Kingman
Henry Kolker Theodore Arno
George Chandler Homer Howard
Jack Baxley Homicide Detective (uncredited)
Harry C. Bradley Mr. Newberry (uncredited)
Hobart Cavanaugh Mr. Harris (uncredited)
G. Pat Collins Man Who Will Kill Wife's Lover (uncredited)
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