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King of Burlesque is a 1936
musical filmThe musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...
about a former
burlesqueBurlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects...
producer played by
Warner BaxterWarner Leroy Baxter was an American actor, known for his role as The Cisco Kid in In Old Arizona , for which he won the second Academy Award for Best Actor in the 1928–1929 Academy Awards. Warner Baxter started his movie career in silent movies...
who moves into a legitimate theatre does very well, until he marries a socialite. Sammy Lee received an Academy Award nomination for the now dead category of
Best Dance Direction-1930s:*1935: Dave Gould - Broadway Melody of 1936 and Folies Bergere ** Busby Berkeley - Gold Diggers of 1935 and...
at the
8th Academy AwardsThe 8th Academy Awards were held on March 5, 1936 at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, California. They were hosted by Frank Capra. This was the first year in which the gold statuettes were called "Oscars."...
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Cast
- Warner Baxter
Warner Leroy Baxter was an American actor, known for his role as The Cisco Kid in In Old Arizona , for which he won the second Academy Award for Best Actor in the 1928–1929 Academy Awards. Warner Baxter started his movie career in silent movies...
as Kerry Bolton
- Alice Faye
Alice Faye was an American actress and singer, called by The New York Times "one of the few movie stars to walk away from stardom at the peak of her career." She is remembered first for her stardom at 20th Century Fox and, later, as the radio comedy partner of her husband, bandleader and comedian...
as Pat Doran
- Jack Oakie
Jack Oakie was an American actor, starring mostly in films, but also working on stage, radio and television.-Early life:...
as Joe Cooney
- Mona Barrie
Mona Barrie was an English born actress in American theatre and motion pictures.-Career:Born Mona Barlee Smith in London, she was educated in Australia and made her professional debut as a ballet dancer in Sydney at the age of sixteen. This led to a solo act in musical comedies...
as Rosalind Cleve
- Arline Judge
Arline Judge was an American actress who worked mostly in low-budget B movies, but gained some fame for marrying and divorcing seven times.-Career:...
as Connie
- Dixie Dunbar as Marie
- Gregory Ratoff
Gregory Ratoff was a Russian-born American film director, actor and producer. His most famous role as an actor was as producer Max Fabian who feuds with star Margo Channing in All About Eve ....
as Kolpolpeck
- Herbert Mundin
Herbert Mundin was an English-born Hollywood character actor. He was frequently typecast in films as an older cheeky eccentric, a type helped by his jowled features and cheerful disposition....
as English Impresario
- Fats Waller
Fats Waller , born Thomas Wright Waller, was a jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer...
as Ben
- Nick Long Jr. as Anthony Lamb
- Kenny Baker as Arthur
- Charles Quigley
Charles Quigley , was an American actor.- Career :Born in New Britain, Connecticut, USA, Quigley He starred in many serial and movies: "Speed to Spare" - "The Shadow" - "Convicted" and "Special Inspector" with Rita Hayworth - Secret Evidence - A Woman's Face - "The Crimson Ghost" you best film....
as Stanley Drake
- Paxton Sisters as Specialty Dancers
- Al Shaw as Lew Henkle (as Shaw)
- Sam Lee as Gus Keefe (as Lee)
- Andrew Tombes as Slattery
- Shirley Deane as Phyllis Sears
- Harry 'Zoup' Welsh as 'Spud' La Rue (as Harry 'Zoop' Welch)
- Claudia Coleman as Belle Weaver
- Ellen Lowe as Miss Meredith (as Ellen E. Lowe)
- Herbert Ashley as Jake - Bolton's Chauffeur
- Jerry Mandy
Jerry Mandy was an American film actor. He appeared in 114 films between 1923 and 1945.He was born in Utica, New York and died in Hollywood, California from a heart attack.-Selected filmography:* Thundering Fleas...
as Frankie
- Keye Luke
Keye Luke was a Chinese-born American actor. He was the first Chinese-American contract player signed with RKO, Universal and, later, MGM and is generally acknowledged as the leading Asian-American actor of this era of American cinema.-Background:...
as Wong
- Gareth Joplin as Speedy - the Bootblack
- Lynn Bari
Lynn Bari , born Margaret Schuyler Fisher, was a movie actress who specialized in playing sultry, statuesque man-killers in over one hundred 20th Century Fox films from the early 1930s through the 1940s.-Career:Bari was born in Roanoke, Virginia...
as Dancer (Uncredited)
- Cyril Ring
Cyril Ring was an American film actor. He began his career in silent films in 1921. By the time of his final performance in 1951, he had appeared in over 350 films, almost all in small and/or uncredited parts...
as Auctioneer's Assistant (uncredited)
- Marjorie Weaver
Marjorie Weaver was an American film actress of the 1930s through the early 1950s.-Early life, entrance into acting:...
as Dancer (uncredited)
- Jane Wyman
Jane Wyman was an American singer, dancer, and character actress of film and television. She began her film career in the 1930s, and was a prolific performer for two decades...
as Dancer (Uncredited)