Criterion’s Best Picture Oscar Nominees
February 22, 2012
Film Info
- United States
- 1929
- 109 minutes
- Black and White
- 1.33:1
- English
Ernst Lubitsch’s first “talking picture” was also Hollywood’s first movie musical to integrate songs with narrative. Additionally, The Love Parade made stars out of toast-of-Paris Maurice Chevalier and girl-from-Philly Jeanette MacDonald, cast as a womanizing military attaché and the man-hungry queen of “Sylvania.” With its naughty innuendo and satiric romance, The Love Parade opened the door for a decade of witty screen battles of the sexes.
Cast
| Count Alfred Renard | Maurice Chevalier |
| Queen Louise | Jeanette MacDonald |
| Jacques | Lupino Lane |
| Lulu | Lillian Roth |
| War Minister | Eugene Pallette |
| Ambassador | E. H. Calvert |
| Master of Ceremonies | Edgar Norton |
| Prime Minister | Lionel Belmore |
Credits
| Director | Ernst Lubitsch |
| Producer | Ernst Lubitsch |
| Screenplay | Ernest Vajda and Guy Bolton |
| From the play by | Leon Xanrof |
| Cinematography | Victor Milner |
| Editor | Merrill G. White |
| Art direction | Hans Dreier |
| Music | Victor Schertzinger |
| Lyrics | Clifford Grey |
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