The Love Parade
Starring: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Lillian Roth
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Writer: Guy Bolton, Ernest Vajda
Producer: Ernst Lubitsch
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.
Trivia
- Nominated for: Academy Award for Best Actor; Academy Award for Best Director; Academy Award for Best Cinematography; Academy Award for Best Picture; and 2 more.
- In one scene, two couples sing the same song alternately.
- To do this with the available technology, Lubitsch had two sets built, with an off-camera orchestra between them, and directed both scenes simultaneously.
Previous Showings
11 Runs • 6 Festivals
5,072 tickets sold
All runs on record (11):
- February 5 - 6, 1988 · 0 ticketsw/ One Hour with You, Monte Carlo, Love Me Tonight
- October 12 - 14, 1990 · 1,035 ticketsw/ The Smiling Lieutenant, One Hour with You
- February 6 - 7, 1992 · 363 ticketsw/ The Smiling Lieutenant
- October 11 - 13, 1995 · 497 ticketsw/ One Hour with You
- February 15 - 16, 2001 · 345 ticketsWinter 2001w/ Applause
- March 3 - 4, 2007Film Noir, Val Lewton, 1930s musicals and more!w/ Morocco
- March 10 - 11, 2007 · 923 ticketsw/ Morocco
- May 7 - 9, 2011 · 868 ticketsMusicalsw/ Gigi
- March 18 - 19, 2015 · 185 ticketsCary Grant every Fri-Sat-Sun Plus Ernst Lubitsch and Rouben Mamoulian every Wedsw/ Applause
- February 11 - 12, 2017 · 543 ticketsBritish and Lubitschw/ Monte Carlo
- April 17 - 18, 2025 · 313 ticketsLubitsch, Mamoulian, Sternberg Three Great Directorsw/ Monte Carlo