Footlights and Fools

Moore plays the "dual" role of a French singer in America who was originally an American chorus girl in France to acquire a new persona.

Cast

Colleen Moore

as Betty Murphy / Fifi D'Auray

Raymond Hackett

as Jimmy Willet

Fredric March

as Gregory Pyne

Virginia Lee Corbin

as Claire Floyd

Edward Martindel

as Chandler Cunnungham

Adrienne D'Ambricourt

as Jo

Frederick Howard

as Treasurer

Mickey Bennett

as Call boy

Sydney Jarvis

as Stage manager

Cleve Moore

as Press agent

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