Footlight Serenade (1942)
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Victor Mature plays an arrogant champion boxer who opts for an acting career on Broadway. He falls in love with his costar Betty Grable, who's secretly married to actor John Payne. Unwilling to make public her marriage lest it adversely affect her career, Grable is unsuccessful in fending off Mature's advance, which causes her hubby's blood to boil. As it happens, Payne is also in the show, cast as Mature's sparring partner, and it is within the bounds of this role that he gets his revenge on the pushy pugilist. With the three leading actors playing for laughs, one wonders why 20th Century-Fox put Phil Silvers in the picture. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- John Payne - Bill Smith
- Victor Mature - Tommy Lundy
- Phil Silvers - Slap
- Cobina Wright, Jr. - Estelle Evans
- Frank Orth - Mike, the Doorman
- Irving Bacon - Porter
- George Dobbs - Dance director
- Harry Barris - Composer
- Frankie Van - Referee
- Hermes Pan - Assistant dance director
- Sheila Ryan - Girl
- Trudy Marshall - Secretary
- George Holmes - Boy
- Betty Grable - Pat Lambert
- Jane Wyman - Flo LaVerne
- James Gleason - Bruce McCay
- June Lang - June
- Mantan Moreland - Dresser
- Charles Tannen - Stage manager
- Frank Coghlan, Jr. - Usher
- Russ Clark
- Pat McKee - Pug
- Don Wilson - Announcer
- William Newell - Writer
- Wilbur Mack - Boxing Commissioner
- John Dilson - Clerk
- Director(s):
- Gregory Ratoff
- Writer(s):
- Lynn Starling, Robert Ellis, Helen Logan
- Producer(s):
- William Le Baron
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