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The Love Parade (1929)

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User Rating: 7.6/10 (250 votes)
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Overview

Director:
Ernst Lubitsch
Writers:
Guy Bolton (writer)
Jules Chancel (play)
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Release Date:
1930 (Austria) more
Genre:
Comedy | Musical | Romance more
Tagline:
Paramount introduces the beautiful, sensational, Jeanette MacDonald! Charming! Sexy! Funny! Romantic! Great entertainment!
Plot:
The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for 6 Oscars. more
NewsDesk:
"Kilometre Zero," "Lubitsch Musicals" (From IFC. 4 March 2008, 4:00 AM, PST)
User Comments:
A Ruritanian romance with singing and a few jokes more

Cast

 (Complete credited cast)

Maurice Chevalier ... Count Alfred Renard

Jeanette MacDonald ... Queen Louise
Lupino Lane ... Jacques
Lillian Roth ... Lulu
Eugene Pallette ... Minister of War
E.H. Calvert ... Sylvanian ambassador
Edgar Norton ... Master of Ceremonies
Lionel Belmore ... Prime Minister
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Additional Details

Runtime:
107 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | French
Aspect Ratio:
1.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
USA:Approved
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
'Jeanette Macdonald' 's first film. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Queen Louise: Why am I always awakened from my dreams?
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Soundtrack:
Let's Be Common more

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3 out of 8 people found the following comment useful:-
A Ruritanian romance with singing and a few jokes, 2 March 2006
9/10
Author: netwallah from The New Intangible College

There isn't much to this early Ruritanian musical, adapted from some sort of stage play to feature the singing of Maurice Chevalier, the rakish count Alfred Renard, and Jeanette MacDonald as Queen Louise of Sylvania. In the early sections the count is a cheerfully cynical Don Juan, and in the end Petruchio. That is, he is a libertine in Paris and gets sent home, where he marries the queen, but soon tires of being second and uses coolness and distance to teach her a lesson. The refeminization of the dominant woman—that is, stripping her of her power, leaving her simpering—is rather unpleasant. MacDonald is earnest but unconvincing as a queen, largely because of her relaxed posture and her accent, though she sings like a good stage monarch. She and Chevalier do have the good grace to be self-parodic—he's at his best explaining, with a charming grin, why he is the only one in the movie with a French accent. There's a charming second couple, the count's valet (Lupino Lane) and the maid Lulu (Lillian Roth), who parallel the queen's courtship of the count with their own rather cruder antics. Also nice is to hear the rumbling voice of the great character actor Eugene Palette, who plays a lamentably small part, but plays it well.

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