Come Out Tap Dancin' Kitties!

"Meow!Meow! the kitty cat is cooing - he's shows a lot of common sense - he knows there's always something doin', sittin' on a backyard fence!"  Wow, I just watched James Cagney hoof and ham it up in "Footlight Parade." (1933) Glorious Busby Berkeley naiads in the "Fountain of Beauty," a ditty about honeymooners with lots of wink wink nudge nudge and the craziest scene of shady hipster drunks singing at a bar in the "Shanghai Lil" sequence. Check out the "mouse" in this number - it's pre-teenage Billy Barty rolling his eyes around. Ooh, and those kitty jazz hands! Every outfit, every haircut, every detail (well, except for the racism and jingoism) makes 1933 look like paradise in America. You could almost forget The Dust Bowl and bread lines watching this.