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The Love Parade
(1929) United States of America
B&W : 12 reels / 10,022 feet
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Maurice Chevalier [Count Alfred], Jeanette MacDonald [Queen Louise], Lupino Lane [Jacques], Lillian Roth [Lulu], Edgar Norton [the master of ceremonies], Lionel Belmore [the prime minister], Albert Roccardi [the foreign minister], Carlton Stockdale (Carl Stockdale) [the admiral], Eugene Pallette [the minister of war], Russell Powell [the Afghan ambassador], E.H. Calvert [the ambassador], André Sheron [Le Marl], Yola d’Avril [Paulette], Winter Hall [the priest], Ben Turpin [the lackey], Anton Vaverka [cabinet minister], Albert de Winton [cabinet minster], William von Hardenburg [cabinet minister], Margaret Fealy [lady in waiting], Virginia Bruce [lady in waiting], Josephine Hall [lady in waiting], Rosalind Charles [lady in waiting], Helene Friend [lady in waiting]
Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation production; distributed by Paramount Pictures Corporation. / Screenplay by Guy Bolton, from a screen story by Ernest Vajda from the novel Le Prince Consort by Leon Xanrof and Jules Chancel. Art direction by Hans Dreier. Songs “Dream Lover,” “Love Parade,” “Nobody’s Using It Now” and “Let’s Be Common” by Victor Schertzinger (music) and Clifford Grey (lyrics). Dialogue direction by Perry Ivins. Cinematography by Victor Milner. Chief recording engineer, Franklin Hansen. Film editor, Merrill White. / © 16 January 1930 by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation [LP1014]. Premiered 19 November 1929 in New York, New York. Released 18 January 1930. / [?] Movietone 35mm spherical 1.20:1 format and/or Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format? Western Electric Movietone sound-on-film synchronized sound system. / Lubitsch’s first sound picture. The film was also released in the USA in a silent version at 7094 feet. The film was also produced in a French language version entitled Parade d’amour. / Full-sound film.
Drama: Romance: Musical.
Survival status: Print exists in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive.
Current rights holder: (unknown)
Keywords: Synchronized sound film
Listing updated: 16 December 2008.
References: Bardèche-History p. 189; Bohn-Light pp. xxv, 89, 192, 205; Everson-American p. 344; Fell-History p. 119; Leish-Cinema p. 70; Limbacher-Feature p. 146; Sarris-Sternberg p. 23; Shipman-Cinema p. 104; Vermilye-Twenties p. 104; Walker-Garbo p. 101 : ClasIm-257 p. C8; Variety-19291030 p. 50 : Website-AFI.
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