Best Foot Forward

6.0
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Run time: 95 min
  • Premiere: 1943. October 8.

Bud Hooper, a cadet at Winsocki Military Academy, sends an invitation to movie star Lucille Ball to come to Winsocki's big dance. Ball's publicity-hungry agent convinces her to go in order to boost her career. Complications arise when Bud's girlfriend Helen Schlesinger unexpectedly shows up, too.

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Lucille Ball

Lucille Ball

William Gaxton

Jack O'Riley

Virginia Weidler

Helen Schlesinger

Tommy Dix

Elwood C. "Bud" Hooper

Nancy Walker

Nancy - Blind Date

Kenny Bowers

Dutch Miller

Gloria DeHaven

Minerva Fierce

Jack Jordan

Harvey "Hunk" Hoyt

Chill Wills

Chester Short

Henry O'Neill

Maj. Roger W. Reeber

Sara Haden

Miss Talbert

Donald MacBride

Capt. Bradd

Bob Stebbins

Greenie

Morris Ankrum

Col. Harkrider

Nana Bryant

Mrs. Dalrymple

Harry James

Himself

Harry Hayden

Prof. Walter Morton

Isabel Randolph

Mrs. Morton

Bess Flowers

Prom Guest

Harry Duff

Cadet (uncredited)

Barbara Bedford

Chaperone at Dance

Lulu Mae Bohrman

Elderly Woman

James Carlisle

Party Guest

Mac Garn

Cadet

Joe Geil

Cadet

Dick Gordon

Party Guest

Sam Kamie

Cadet

Colin Kenny

Party Guest

Caren Marsh

Dancer

Robert Emmett O'Connor

Train Conductor

Art Thompson

Elderly Man

Beverly Tyler

Vocalist

Art

Edwin B. Willis

Set Decoration

Cedric Gibbons

Art Direction

Camera

Leonard Smith

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Gile Steele

Costume Design

Irene

Costume Supervisor

I. Miller

Shoe Design

Directing

Edward Buzzell

Director

Editing

Production

Arthur Freed

Producer

Sound

Lennie Hayton

Original Music Composer

Writing

Irving Brecher

Screenplay

Art

Edwin B. Willis

Set Decoration

Cedric Gibbons

Art Direction

Camera

Leonard Smith

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Gile Steele

Costume Design

Irene

Costume Supervisor

I. Miller

Shoe Design

Directing

Edward Buzzell

Director

Editing

Production

Arthur Freed

Producer

Sound

Lennie Hayton

Original Music Composer

Writing

Irving Brecher

Screenplay