Maurice Chevalier
Count Alfred Renard
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The Love Parade is a 1929 American pre-Code musical comedy film, directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, involving the marital difficulties of Queen Louise of Sylvania (MacDonald) and her consort, Count Alfred Renard (Chevalier).
The Love Parade: Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. With Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Lupino Lane, Lillian Roth. The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.
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- Comedy, Musical, Romance
- Ernst Lubitsch
- 1930-01-18
With its naughty innuendo and satiric romance, The Love Parade opened the door for a decade of witty screen battles of the sexes. Ernst Lubitsch’s first "talking picture" was also Hollywood's first movie musical to integrate songs with narrative.
- Count Alfred Renard
The Love Parade. A playboy count (Maurice Chevalier) becomes prince consort to the queen of Sylvania (Jeanette MacDonald).
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- Maurice Chevalier
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Musical, Comedy
1929's The Love Parade establishes the Lubitsch musical comedy format; the only thing slowing it down are a few too many unmemorable songs. Lubitsch paired Maurice Chevalier (in his second talkie) with Jeanette MacDonald, a fresh face and voice from Philadelphia.
- Ernst Lubitsch, Perry Ivins
- Maurice Chevalier
The Love Parade. by. Ernst Lubitsch. Publication date. 1929-11-19. Topics. Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Lupino Lane, Lillian Roth, Eugene Pallette, E.H. Calvert, Edgar Norton, Lionel Belmore, Russ Powell, Carl Stockdale, Albert Roccardi, Anton Vaverka, Albert De Winton, William von Hardenburg, Margaret Fealy, Virginia Bruce, Josephine ...
Count Renard, singing diplomat from mythical country Sylvania, is recalled from Paris because of his philandering. Meanwhile, singing Queen Louise of Sylvania is being badgered by her cabinet to marry. Expecting disgrace, Renard finds instead that he's just what the Queen had in mind for a consort.
