Paramount on Parade

Paramount on Parade is a 1930 allstar American PreCode 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 Schertzingerall supervised by the production supervisor, singer, actress, and songwriter Elsie Janis.

Paramount on Parade, released on April 22, 1930, was Paramounts answer to allstar revues like Hollywood Revue of 1929 from MetroGoldwynMayer, The Show of Shows from Warner Brothers, and King of Jazz from Universal Studios. The film hadindividual segmentsseveral of them in twostrip Technicolor directed bydirectors, and almost every star on the Paramount roster except Claudette Colbert and the Marx Brothers. Colbert became a star in May 1930 with the release of The Big Pond, also with Chevalier and also released in a Frenchlanguage version.The Internet Movie Database says the Jeanette MacDonald segment showing her and Metropolitan Opera tenor Nino Martini just before he sings Come Back to Sorrento was cut from the release print, but may still exist in Galas de la Paramount, the Spanishlanguage version of the film. Paramount also produced a Frenchlanguage version Paramount en Parade directed by Charles de Rochefort and a Romanianlanguage version Parada Paramount see IMDB links below. Chevalier and Martini also starred in the French version, and Romanian actress Pola Illry starred in the Romanian version. There was also a Dutch version, Paramount op Parade with Theo Frenkel. The Swedish version starred Ernst Rolf and his wife, Tutta Rolf. ........

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