Paramount on Parade

Paramount on Parade (1930)

Sparkling as a June night; intimate as marriage. Something entirely new in screen entertainment.

This 1930 film, a collection of songs and sketches showcasing Paramount Studios' contract stars, credits 11 directors

Date of release
1930-04-22
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (10)
Runtime
1h 17m
Genres
Music, Comedy
Director
Frank Tuttle, Edwin H. Knopf, Victor Heerman, A. Edward Sutherland, Rowland V. Lee, Victor Schertzinger, Edmund Goulding, Ernst Lubitsch, Lothar Mendes, Dorothy Arzner, Otto Brower

Casting

Interesting facts

Paramount on Parade is a 1930 all-star American pre-Code revue released by Paramount Pictures, directed by several directors including Edmund Goulding, Dorothy Arzner, Ernst Lubitsch, Rowland V. Lee, A. Edward Sutherland, Lothar Mendes, Otto Brower, Edwin H. Knopf, Frank Tuttle, and Victor Schertzinger—all supervised by the production supervisor, singer, actress, and songwriter Elsie Janis.

Production

Paramount on Parade, released on April 22, 1930, was Paramount's answer to all-star revues like Hollywood Revue of 1929 from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, The Show of Shows from Warner Bros., and King of Jazz from Universal Studios. The film had 20 individual segments—several of them in two-color Technicolor — directed by 11 directors, and almost every star on the Paramount roster except Marlene Dietrich, Emil Jannings, Claudette Colbert, Jeanette MacDona…

Paramount also produced a Spanish-language version titled Galas de la Paramount starring Barry Norton, Ramon Pereda and Rosita Moreno; a French-language version, Paramount en parade, directed by Charles de Rochefort; and a Romanian-language version Parada Paramount (Chevalier and Martini also starred in the French version, and Romanian actress Pola Illéry starred in the Romanian version).

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