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The Love Parade (1929);
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)

The Love Parade (1929)
July 8, 2012 - 7:00 pm
Billy Wilder Theater

Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive. Funded by AFI/NEA Film Preservation Grants Program.

The Love Parade (1929)

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch

Lubitsch’s first talkie was this innovative musical starring Maurice Chevalier in his first American success and Jeanette MacDonald in her film debut. A whimsical love story between a queen and an amorous diplomat, The Love Parade was not merely a commercial hit but a sound film milestone for the pioneering way Lubitsch incorporated songs naturally within scenes. The result is a brilliantly flowing, musical satire.

Paramount Famous Lasky Corp. Screenwriter: Guy Bolton. Based on a novel by Leon Xanrof and Jules Chancel. Cinematographer: Victor Milner. Editor: Merrill White. Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Lupino Lane, Lillian Roth, Edgar Norton.

35mm, b/w, 107 min.

Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive. Funded by The Stanford Theater Foundation.

The Smiling Lieutenant (1931)

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch

In Lubitsch’s third sound feature, Maurice Chevalier plays a cheerful but bemused hero Austrian officer who has the mixed good fortune to win the affections of two equally beautiful women: a warm-hearted violinist (Colbert) and a haughty princess (Hopkins). As in Lubitsch’s other musicals, the camera might also be one of the performers, swooping and darting through the farcical plot.

Paramount Publix Corp. Screenwriter: Ernest Vadja, Samson Raphaelson. Based on an operetta by Felix Dörmann and Leopold Jacobson. Cinematographer: George Folsey. Editor: Merrill White. Cast: Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins, Charlie Ruggles, George Barbier.

35mm, b/w, 102 min.

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