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Genre
  
Comedy, Musical, Romance

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

7.3/10
IMDb

Director
  
Ernst Lubitsch

Screenplay
  
Ernest Vajda, Guy Bolton

Language
  
English

The Love Parade movie poster

Writer
  
Guy Bolton
,
Ernest Vajda

Release date
  
November 19, 1929 (US)

Based on
  
Le Prince Consort (French play) by Jules Chancel Leon Xanrof

Music director
  
Victor Schertzinger, Clifford Grey

Cast
  
Maurice Chevalier
(Count Alfred Renard),
Jeanette MacDonald
(Queen Louise),
Lupino Lane
(Jacques),
Lillian Roth
(Lulu),
Eugene Pallette
(Minister of War),
E.H. Calvert
(Ambassador)

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The Love Parade is a 1929 American Pre-Code musical comedy film about the marital difficulties of Queen Louise of Sylvania (Jeanette MacDonald) and her consort, Count Alfred Renard (Maurice Chevalier). Despite his love for Louise and his promise to be an obedient husband, Count Alfred finds his role as a figurehead unbearable.

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The Love Parade movie scenes

The film was directed by Ernst Lubitsch from a screenplay by Guy Bolton and Ernest Vajda, adapted from the French play Le Prince Consort, written by Jules Chancel and Leon Xanrof; which had previously been adapted for Broadway in 1905 by William Boosey and Cosmo Gordon Lennox.

The Love Parade movie scenes

The Love Parade is notable for being both the film debut of Jeanette MacDonald and the first "talkie" film made by Ernst Lubitsch. It was also released in a French-language version called Parade d'amour. Chevalier had thought that he would never be capable of acting as a Royal courtier, and had to be persuaded by Lubitsch. This huge box-office hit appeared just after the Wall Street crash, and did much to save the fortunes of Paramount.

my love parade song from the love parade 1929


Plot

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Count Alfred (Maurice Chevalier), military attaché to the Sylvanian Embassy in Paris, is ordered back to Sylvania to report to Queen Louise for a reprimand following a string of scandals, including an affair with the ambassador's wife. In the meantime Queen Louise (Jeanette MacDonald), ruler of Sylvania in her own right, is royally fed-up with her subjects' preoccupation with whom she will marry.

Intrigued rather than offended by Count Alfred's dossier, Queen Louise invites him to dinner. Their romance progresses to the point of marriage when, despite his qualms, for love of Louise Alfred agrees to obey the Queen.

Cast

  • Maurice Chevalier as Count Alfred Renard
  • Jeanette MacDonald as Queen Louise
  • Lupino Lane as Jacques
  • Lillian Roth as Lulu
  • Eugene Pallette as Minister of War
  • E. H. Calvert as Sylvanian Ambassador
  • Edgar Norton as Master of Ceremonies
  • Lionel Belmore as Prime Minister
  • Production

    Although The Love Parade was Lubitsch's first sound film, he already displayed a mastery of the technical requirements of the day. In one scene, two couples sing the same song alternately. To do this with the available technology, Lubitsch had two sets built, with an off-camera orchestra between them, and directed both scenes simultaneously. This enabled him to cut back and forth from one scene to the other in editing, something unheard of at the time.

    Music

    All songs are by Victor Schertzinger (music) and Clifford Grey (lyrics):

  • "Ooh, La La" – sung by Lupino Lane
  • "Paris, Stay the Same" – sung by Maurice Chevalier and Lupino Lane
  • "Dream Lover" – sung by Jeanette MacDonald and chorus, reprise sung by Jeanette MacDonald
  • "Anything to Please the Queen" – sung by Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier
  • "My Love Parade" – sung by Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald
  • "Let's Be Common" – sung by Lupino Lane and Lillian Roth
  • "March of the Grenadiers" – sung by Jeanette MacDonald and chorus, reprise sung by chorus
  • "Nobody's Using It Now" – sung by Maurice Chevalier
  • "The Queen Is Always Right" – sung by Lupino Lane, Lillian Roth and chorus
  • Awards and honors

    The Love Parade was nominated for six Academy Awards:

  • Best Picture
  • Best Actor - Maurice Chevalier
  • Best Director - Ernst Lubitsch
  • Best Cinematography - Victor Milner
  • Art Direction - Hans Dreier
  • Sound Recording - Franklin Hansen
  • References

    The Love Parade Wikipedia
    The Love Parade IMDbThe Love Parade Rotten TomatoesThe Love Parade themoviedb.org