The Love Parade
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). Despite his love for Louise and his promise to be an obedient husband, Count Alfred finds his role as a figurehead unbearable. The supporting cast features Lupino Lane, Lillian Roth and Eugene Pallette.
Plot
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.
More details
| author | Ernest Vajda Guy Bolton |
|---|---|
| director | Ernst Lubitsch |
| editor | Merrill G. White |
| genre | comedy |
| musicBy | Victor Schertzinger |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Cinematography Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Production Design Academy Award for Best Sound Mixing |
| producer | Ernst Lubitsch |
| productionCompany | Paramount Famous Lasky Corp. |
| publisher | Paramount Famous Lasky Corp. |
| theme | musical comedy |