Paramount on Parade (1930)

Directed by

Victor Schertzinger, Victor Heerman, Edwin H. Knopf, Rowland V. Lee

Genre

musical film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This 1930 musical revue features dozens of Paramount stars performing sketches and songs. The film showcases a parade of popular entertainers from the studio in a series of short acts.

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What happens

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, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Jack Oakie, Helen Kane, Maurice Chevalier, Nancy Carroll, George Bancroft, Kay Francis, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, Gary Cooper, Fay Wray, 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 and Harry Fischbeck. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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