The Love Parade
Liebesparade
© Universal Pictures
Jeanette MacDonald, Maurice Chevalier
The Love Parade | Liebesparade by Ernst Lubitsch
USA 1929, Berlinale Classics
© Universal Pictures
Jeanette MacDonald
The Love Parade | Liebesparade by Ernst Lubitsch
USA 1929, Berlinale Classics
© Universal Pictures
Edgar Norton, Maurice Chevalier
The Love Parade | Liebesparade by Ernst Lubitsch
USA 1929, Berlinale Classics
© Universal Pictures
Count Alfred, military attaché at the Sylvanian Embassy in Paris, is recalled due to his countless love affairs. But back in his home country, instead of punishing him, bachelorette Queen Louise dissolves in his arms. They promptly marry. But as a subject of the realm, Prince Consort Alfred has no rights, either in the regency or in the marriage. When he is expected to grin and bear it for an evening at the opera, he rebels… In his first talkie, Ernst Lubitsch moved the action of “The Taming of the Shrew” into the upper echelon of nobility. While stars Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald fight the battle of the sexes with erotic finesse according to the rules of the Lubitsch touch, the parallel below stairs tussle between their servants (Lupino Lane and Lillian Roth) is more reminiscent of the coarse badinage in Lubitsch’s earlier farce Kohlhiesel’s Daughters. With its hyper-realistic singing interludes, The Love Parade had a lasting influence on the operetta genre. In 1929, Lubitsch said the audience needs to have the ability to transport themselves to a world in which people express their feelings for each other in song.
With
- Maurice Chevalier
- Jeanette MacDonald
- Lupino Lane
- Lillian Roth
- Eugene Pallette
- Edgar Norton
- Lionel Belmore
Crew
| Director | Ernst Lubitsch |
| Screenplay | Ernest Vajda, Guy Bolton based on the play “Le Prince consort” by Léon Xanrof, Jules Chancel |
| Cinematography | Victor Milner |
| Editing | Merrill G. White |
| Music | W. Franke Harling, Victor Schertzinger |
| Sound | Franklin Hansen |
| Art Director | Hans Dreier |
| Costumes | Eugene Joseff |
| Producer | Ernst Lubitsch |
World sales
Park Circus Limited, Glasgow
Additional information
DCP: NBC Universal, Universal City