This article is about the 1929 film. For other uses, see Love Parade (disambiguation).
The Love Parade
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theatrical poster
Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Produced by Ernst Lubitsch
Written by Guy Bolton
Ernest Vajda
Based on Le Prince Consort (French play) by
Jules Chancel
Leon Xanrof
Starring Maurice Chevalier
Jeanette MacDonald
Lillian Roth
Music by Songs:
Victor Schertzinger (music)
Clifford Grey (lyrics)
Cinematography Victor Milner
Edited by Merrill G. White
Production
company
Paramount Pictures
Release dates
November 19, 1929 (US)
Running time
107 minutes
Country United States
Language English
The Love Parade is a 1929 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. The film was directed by Ernst Lubitsch from a screenplay by Guy Bolton and Ernest Vajda, adapted from the French play Le Prince Consort,[1] written by Jules Chancel and Leon Xanrof; which had previously been adapted for Broadway in 1905 by William Boosey and Cosmo Gordon Lennox.[2]
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.[3] Chevalier had thought that he would never be capable of acting as a Royal courtier, and had to be persuaded by Lubitsch.[4]
This huge box-office hit appeared just after the Wall Street crash, and did much to save the fortunes of Paramount.