The alarm clock had to go.His very life depended on it." He offered further instructions - Babe was to sneak into the farmhouse, proceed through a kitchen and living room, and avoid disturbing the Hoggetts"" nasty, mean and favored cat Duchess (voice of Russie Taylor), and abscond with the threatening, job-stealing clock in the upstairs bedroom.Pendergast would object ("I couldn""t take it").Joe responded that it could be seen as a "wedding present - take it on your honeymoon," and then pleaded:"I want to give it to you.In its own way, the film satirizes stuffy upper-class manners while glorifying in them and providing wish-fulfillment for mid-30""s audiences, as painfully demonstrated in the conclusion of Woody Allen""sThe Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), as a dejected, bereft Cecilia (Mia Farrow) watched the famous "Cheek o Cheek" song-and-dance number from this film, and her face slowly transformed into one of rapt joy - despite being jobless, having been abandoned by a man she left her true love for, and having an abusive, unfaithful spouse.There were also an unknown number of additional Raver victims, and some additional dream-deaths.BackgroundFootlight Parade (1933)is one of the three most spectacular musicals in 1933 from Warner Bros.Multiple voices were also used for Thumper (with three voices, including the incredibly charming voice of 6 year-old Peter Behn), Flower (with hree voices including veteran Sterling Holloway), and Faline (two voices).