Paramount On Parade

Paramount on Parade
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. Featured stars included Jean Arthur, Richard Arlen, Clara Bow, Evelyn Brent, Buddy Rogers, Jack Oakie, Helen Kane, Maurice Chevalier, Nancy Carroll, George Bancroft, Kay Francis, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, Gary Cooper, Fay Wray, Lillian Roth
Lillian Roth and other Paramount stars. The screenplay was written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, produced by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky, with cinematography by Victor Milner
Victor Milner and Harry Fischbeck.

Contents

1 Production

1.1 International versions

2 Preservation status 3 List of sequences 4 Foreign-language versions 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

Production[edit] Paramount on Parade, released on April 22, 1930, was Paramount's answer to all-star revues like Hollywood Revue
Revue of 1929 from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, The Show of Shows
The Show of Shows from Warner Brothers, and King of Jazz from Universal Studios.[1][2] The film had 20 individual segments—several of them in two-color Technicolor
Technicolor — directed by 11 directors, and almost every star on the Paramount roster except Claudette Colbert
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 French-language version.) International versions[edit] Paramount also produced a French-language version Paramount en Parade directed by Charles de Rochefort
Charles de Rochefort and a Romanian-language version Parada Paramount (Chevalier and Martini also starred in the French version, and Romanian actress Pola Illéry
Pola Illéry starred in the Romanian version. There was also a Dutch version, Paramount op Parade with Theo Frenkel. The Scandinavian version starred Ernst Rolf
Ernst Rolf and his wife, Tutta Rolf. Preservation status[edit]

Paramount on Parade
Paramount on Parade featured in a 1930 advertisement for Technicolor

The film, including some of its Technicolor
Technicolor sequences, has been restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. The original title sequence and chorus girl number immediately following it, however, are still lost. The sound for two of the Technicolor
Technicolor sequences ("Gallows Song" and "Dream Girl") are also missing. According to Robert Gitt, film archivist now retired from UCLA, in a lecture at Pacific Film Archive
Pacific Film Archive at UC Berkeley, the film was also released with sound-on-disc for those theaters not equipped for sound-on-film. The archive had a report of the soundtrack for this film still existing on disc until the 1994 Northridge earthquake destroyed a set of discs that a collector was planning to donate. In August 2010, CapitolFest in Rome, New York showed a 102-minute version restored by UCLA Film and Television Archive. Some sequences are still missing the sound, for some sequences only the soundtrack exists. List of sequences[edit]

"Title Sequence" during Credits with Kay Francis
Kay Francis and George Bancroft (lost footage; only sound survives)[3] "Showgirls on Parade" with Mitzi Mayfair
Mitzi Mayfair (lost Technicolor
Technicolor footage; only sound survives)[3] "We're the Masters of Ceremony" Jack Oakie, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, and Leon Errol
Leon Errol introduce themselves as MC's of the film "Love Time" Buddy Rogers and Lillian Roth "Murder Will Out" William Powell, Clive Brook, Warner Oland, Eugene Pallette, and Oakie "Origin of the Apache" Maurice Chevalier
Maurice Chevalier and Evelyn Brent
Evelyn Brent do a parody of an Apache dance "Song of the Gondolier" Nino Martini
Nino Martini sings "Come Back to Sorrento" (Technicolor; survives complete) "In a Hospital" Leon Errol, and David Newell "In a Girl's Gym" Jack Oakie
Jack Oakie and Zelma O'Neal "The Toreador" Kay Francis
Kay Francis and Harry Green (as Isadore the Toreador) parody Carmen (Technicolor; survives complete) "The Montmartre Girl" Ruth Chatterton, Stu Erwin, and Fredric March "Park in Paris" Maurice Chevalier "Mitzi Herself" Mitzi Green "The Schoolroom" Helen Kane, Mitzi Green. Kane sings "What Did Cleopatra Say?" to her class "The Gallows Song" Skeets Gallagher and Dennis King (Technicolor footage survives; sound missing, current prints use King's commercial vocal recording of the song.)[3] "Dance Mad" Nancy Carroll
Nancy Carroll and Abe Lyman's Band "Dream Girl" Richard Arlen, Jean Arthur, Mary Brian, James Hall, Gary Cooper, and Fay Wray
Fay Wray sing "Let Us Drink To The Girl Of My Dreams" ( Technicolor
Technicolor footage survives; sound missing)[3] "The Redhead" Clara Bow, and 42 Navy men sing "True to the Navy" "Impulses" George Bancroft, Kay Francis, and Cecil Cunningham "Rainbow Revels" finale Chevalier and girls' chorus (including Iris Adrian and Virginia Bruce) sing "Sweeping the Clouds Away" (in Technicolor; survives only in black-and-white)[3]

Foreign-language versions[edit] A large number of foreign-language versions were shot including:

Galas de la Paramount (Spanish) premiered in Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires 28 August 1930 and in Los Angeles
Los Angeles 7 September 1930; with Ramón Pereda, Barry Norton, Rosita Moreno Paramount en parade (French) with Maurice Chevalier, Nino Martini, Saint-Granier, Marguerite Moreno, Louis-Jacques Boucot, Fanny Clair, and Charles de Rochefort
Charles de Rochefort (Rochefort also directed) Parada Paramount (Romanian) with Pola Illéry; directed by Rochefort Paramount op Parade (Dutch) with Theo Frenkel Jr., Mien Duymaer van Twist, and Louis Davids; directed by Job Weening

At Paramount's Hollywood studio, Ernst Rolf
Ernst Rolf and his Norwegian wife, Tutta Rolf, filmed introductions and sequences for the Scandinavian version. Japanese comedian Suisei Matsui introduced the film in Japan. Mira Zimińska
Mira Zimińska and Mariusz Maszynski appeared in the Polish version, and Dina Gralla and Eugen Rex appeared in the German version. Paramount filmed most of the above versions, along with Czech, Hungarian, Serbian, and Italian versions, at their Joinville Studios in Paris. See also[edit]

List of early color feature films Multiple-language version The House That Shadows Built (1931 promotional film released by Paramount)

References[edit]

^ "Paramount on Parade". IMDb.com. Retrieved 2016-02-06. ^ " Paramount on Parade
Paramount on Parade (1930) - Overview". TCM.com. Retrieved 2016-02-06. ^ a b c d e Lynn Kear; James King (2009-07-31). Evelyn Brent: The Life and Films of Hollywood's Lady Crook. Books.google.com.pe. p. 188. Retrieved 2016-02-06.

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Films by Edmund Goulding

Directed

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Screenplays

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Films directed by Ernst Lubitsch

Feature films

Shoe Palace Pinkus
Shoe Palace Pinkus (1916) When Four Do the Same (1917) Die Augen der Mumie Ma (1918) Carmen (1918) Intoxication (1919) The Doll (1919) My Wife, the Movie Star
My Wife, the Movie Star (1919) The Oyster Princess
The Oyster Princess (1919) Meyer from Berlin
Meyer from Berlin (1919) Madame DuBarry (1919) Sumurun
Sumurun (1920) Kohlhiesel's Daughters (1920) Anna Boleyn (1920) The Wild Cat (1921) The Loves of Pharaoh
The Loves of Pharaoh (1922) The Flame (1923) Rosita (1923) The Marriage Circle
The Marriage Circle (1924) Three Women (1924) Forbidden Paradise
Forbidden Paradise (1924) Kiss Me Again (1925) Lady Windermere's Fan (1925) So This Is Paris (1926) The Honeymoon Express (1926) The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927) The Patriot (1928) Eternal Love (1929) The Love Parade
The Love Parade (1929) Monte Carlo (1930) Paramount on Parade
Paramount on Parade (co-director) (1930) The Smiling Lieutenant
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) Broken Lullaby
Broken Lullaby (1932) One Hour with You
One Hour with You (1932) Trouble in Paradise (1932) Design for Living (1933) The Merry Widow (1934) Angel (1937) Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938) Ninotchka
Ninotchka (1939) The Shop Around the Corner
The Shop Around the Corner (1940) That Uncertain Feeling (1941) To Be or Not to Be (1942) Heaven Can Wait (1943) A Royal Scandal (1945) Cluny Brown
Cluny Brown (1946) That Lady in Ermine
That Lady in Ermine (1948)