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 Theatrical producers Donald Avery and Geoffrey "Jeff" Crandall try to con a millionairess into funding their latest show by posing as old friends of her lost love.
Cast Alan Mowbray as Donald Avery Donald MacBride as Geoffrey "Jeff" Crandall Elisabeth Risdon as Hattie Drake Lee Bonnell as John Carter Elyse Knox as Eileen Drake Charles Quigley as Spike Georgia Backus as Imogene Eddie Borden as Joe Chester Clute as Mr. Holly Charles Halton as Mr. E.J. Fingernogle Lew Kelly as Jarvis Mantan Moreland as Willie Hamsure Bradley Page as Harvey Parker Keye Luke as Waiter
Reception It lost $40,000 at the box office.Richard Jewell & Vernon Harbin, The RKO Story. New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House, 1982. p159 A reviewer in Variety felt the film was predictable as "there's not an unexpected moment in it".Tucker p.240
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Bibliography Tucker, David C. Gale Storm: A Biography and Career Record. McFarland, 2018.
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