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Director
  
Henry Koster

Story by
  
Ernst Marischka

Duration
  

Language
  
English

7/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Comedy, Musical

Production
  
Universal Studios

Country
  
United States

Spring Parade movie poster

Release date
  
September 27, 1940 (1940-09-27) (USA)

Writer
  
Bruce Manning (screenplay), Felix Jackson (screenplay), Ernst Marischka (original story)

Cast
  
Deanna Durbin
(Ilonka Tolnay),
Robert Cummings
(Corporal Harry Marten),
Mischa Auer
(Gustav),
Henry Stephenson
(Emperor Franz Joseph),
S.Z. Sakall
(Latislav Teschek - the Baker),
Billy Lenhart
(Max)

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,
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Tagline
  
LIVE, LAUGH and LOVE! With a Dancing, Romancing Deanna!

Deanna durbin in spring parade 1940


Spring Parade is a 1940 American musical comedy film directed by Henry Koster and starring Deanna Durbin. It is a remake of the 1934 film Spring Parade. Producer Joe Pasternak and screenwriter Ernst Marischka worked on both films.

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Plot

Based on a story by Ernst Marischka, the film is about an Hungarian woman who attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller which says she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Soon after the woman gets a job as a baker's assistant and meets a handsome army drummer who dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor, but is held back by the military which discourages original music. Wanting to help the army drummer, the woman sends one of his waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries, which leads to the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.

Awards

Spring Parade received four Academy Award nominations for Best Cinematography, Best Original Song, Best Musical Score, and Best Sound Recording.

Cast

  • Deanna Durbin as Ilonka Tolnay
  • Robert Cummings as Corporal Harry Marten
  • Mischa Auer as Gustav
  • Henry Stephenson as Emperor Franz Joseph
  • S. Z. Sakall as Laci Teschek - the Baker
  • Billy Lenhart as Max
  • Kenneth Brown as Moritz
  • Walter Catlett as Headwaiter
  • Anne Gwynne as Jenny
  • Allyn Joslyn as Count Zorndorf
  • Peggy Moran as Archduchess Irene
  • Reginald Denny as The Major

    • Awards

    The film was nominated for four Academy Awards.

  • Best Cinematography (Black-and-White) (Joseph Valentine)
  • Best Original Song (Robert Stolz and Gus Kahn, for "Waltzing in the Clouds")
  • Best Musical Score (Charles Previn)
  • Best Sound Recording (Bernard B. Brown)

    • References

    Spring Parade Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    Spring Parade IMDb Spring Parade themoviedb.org