Movie: Footlight Fever

Top 6 Billed Cast

Alan Mowbray
Alan Mowbray

Don Avery

Donald MacBride
Donald MacBride

Jeff Crandall

Elisabeth Risdon
Elisabeth Risdon

Aunt Hattie Drake

Lee Bonnell
Lee Bonnell

John Carter

Elyse Knox
Elyse Knox

Eileen Drake

Charles Quigley
Charles Quigley

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    Alan Mowbray and Donald MacBride reprise their roles in "Curtain Call" 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.

  • Release Date

    1941-03-21

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    7

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    English

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