The Love Parade
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Directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Produced by Ernst Lubitsch
Written by Play:
Jules Chancel
Leon Xanrof
Screenplay:
Guy Bolton
Ernest Vajda
Starring Maurice Chevalier
Jeanette MacDonald
Lillian Roth
Music by Victor Schertzinger
Cinematography Victor Milner
Editing by Merrill G. White
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date(s) November 19, 1929
Running time 107 minutes
Country United States
Language English
For the Dream Academy song, see The Love Parade (song).

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 written by Guy Bolton and Ernest Vajda, from the play The Prince Consort, written by Jules Chancel and Leon Xanrof. The film was directed by Ernst Lubitsch. This film is notable for being both the film debut of Jeanette MacDonald and the first "talkie" film by Ernst Lubitsch.

This huge box-office hit appeared just after the Wall Street crash, and did much to save the fortunes of Paramount. Ironically, Chevalier had claimed that he would never be capable of acting as a Royal courtier, and had to be persuaded by Lubitsch.[1]

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Plot [link]

Count Alfred, 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, ruler of Sylvania in her own right, is royally fed-up with her subjects' preoccupation with whom she will marry.

Intrigued rather than offended by Count Alfred's dossier, Queen Louise invites him to dinner. Their romance progresses to the point of marriage when, despite his qualms, for love of Louise Alfred agrees to obey the Queen.

Cast [link]

Music [link]

  • Dream Lover
  • March Of The Grenadiers

Awards and honors [link]

The Love Parade was nominated for six Academy Awards:[2][3][4]

References [link]

  1. ^ With Love, the Autobiography of Maurice Chevalier (Cassell, 1960), P192.
  2. ^ "NY Times: The Love Parade". NY Times. https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/100446/The-Love-Parade/awards. Retrieved 2008-12-07. 
  3. ^ Osborne, Robert (1994). 65 Years of the Oscar: The Official History of the Academy Awards. London: Abbeville Press. p. 25. ISBN 1-55859-715-8. 
  4. ^ "The 3rd Academy Awards (1929/30) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. https://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/3rd-winners.html. Retrieved 2011-08-05. 
  5. ^ Maurice Chevalier was also nominated for The Big Pond (1930). Multiple performance consideration was customary at the time.

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The Love Parade (song)

"The Love Parade" is the fourth single released by The Dream Academy. It was a more "edgy" song than their previous singles, made so by the inclusion of themes of adultery and erotic temptation in the lyrics., and was arranged to a brisk bossa nova-esque beat which was in stark contrast to the style of the group's first single Life In A Northern Town . There were two additional singles released in the UK by Blanco y Negro, a 7" shaped picture disc and a second limited edition release.

There were high hopes for the single, especially from Warners, and there was some degree of promotion of the song (such as a live performance on American Bandstand). However, the single failed to live up to the expectations of their debut single, "Life in a Northern Town", just making the top 40 (#36) in the US but reaching #68 in the UK.

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7" version

  • "The Love Parade" - 3:50
  • "Girl in a Million" (for Edie Sedgwick) - 3:50

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  • Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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    The Love Parade

    by: Dream Academy

    Look out your window any day
    From June to September the love parade's
    Out on the street where you live and you know
    It's just a matter of time before it takes over
    They've been married for so many years
    Now a young love seranade blows sweet nothing in her ear
    They're lonely together, when they're not apart
    It feels like she's holding on to someone else in the dark.
    Oh the love parade is on
    Even against all odds
    It'll go on forever
    The love parade
    Only matinee shows
    The love parade.
    But if he could put himself into a different skin
    He'd be worrying about what he's let himself in for
    Hanging in the air apparent
    A point of view almost transparent
    So you sold your soul for a pocket full of sweet talk
    Forget-me-not kisses at the end of a slow walk
    And when it's done you put your world back on
    'Cause she's otherwise engaged married to someone
    Oh the love parade goes on
    Even when you're gone
    It'll go on forever
    The love parade
    Only matinee shows




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