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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
The Love Parade (German: Loveparade) was an electronic dance music festival and technoparade that originated in 1989 in West Berlin, Germany. It was held annually in Berlin from 1989 to 2003 and in 2006, then from 2007 to 2010 in the Ruhr region.
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
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
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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.
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.
