1930s musicals light up ‘Marquee Movies’ at the Wilder

The UCLA Film & Television Archive continues its “Marquee Movies: Movies on Moviegoing” series with a pair of 1930s pictures. Starring James Cagney as a Broadway producer getting creative after the encroachment of talking pictures, “Footlight Parade” followed in the footsteps of Warner Bros. backstage musicals “42nd Street” and “Golddiggers of 1933.” “This Way Please,” a 1937 Paramount musical romance, featured Charles “Buddy” Rogers in his last film for the studio and Betty Grable in her first.

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“Marquee Movies: Movies on Moviegoing,” UCLA Film & Television Archive, Billy Wilder Theater, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, (310) 206-8013. “Footlight Parade” (1933), with “This Way Please” (1937). 7 p.m. Sunday.