This poster of the 1933 musical Footlight Parade is definitive sexy pre-code ‘tude.
If you’ve not had the pleasure of viewing Lloyd Bacon’s film, it is ceratinly one that belongs in your Netflix queue. Its admittedly throwaway backstage plot is more than compensated by all manner of early 30s cellophane fancies, namely, a scorchingly hot Joan Blondell, a never-been-better Ruby Keeler and Cagney–oh, Cagney–proving once and for all that a tough little cuss can strut a softshoe and still be a hell of a he-man.
And then, of course, there’s the matter of the music. Harry Warren and Al Dubin bringing to the screen the delicious subtle salaciousness that can only come from pre-code cinema.
Shanghai Lil, anyone?
Don’t you just adore the early 30s deco geometry?
The Kitty Packard Pictorial 
mmMMmm.. i thikn ih ave to add this onto netflix for the art alone… good call.
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