Footlight Fever

Footlight Fever
Theatrical release poster
Directed byIrving Reis
Screenplay byBert Granet
Ian McLellan Hunter
Produced byHoward Benedict
StarringAlan Mowbray
Donald MacBride
Elyse Knox
CinematographyRobert De Grasse
Edited byTheron Warth
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • March 21, 1941 (1941-03-21) (USA)
Running time
69 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Footlight Fever is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Irving Reis and starring Alan Mowbray, Donald MacBride, Elisabeth Risdon and Elyse Knox. Produced and distributed by RKO Pictures, it is a sequel to the 1940 film Curtain Call.

Plot

Alan Mowbray and Donald MacBride reprise their roles as theatrical producers Donald Avery and Geoffrey 'Jeff' Crandall. This time they try to con a millionairess into funding their latest show by posing as old friends of her lost love.

Cast

Reception

It lost $40,000 at the box office.[1] A reviewer in Variety felt the film was predictable as "there's not an unexpected moment in it".[2]

References

  1. ^ Richard Jewell & Vernon Harbin, The RKO Story. New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House, 1982. p159
  2. ^ Tucker p.240

Bibliography

  • Tucker, David C. Gale Storm: A Biography and Career Record. McFarland, 2018.


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