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PARAMOUNT ON PARADE

 

Paramount Famous Lasky, 1930.  Directed by Dorothy Arzner.  Camera:  Harry Fischbeck.   With Richard Arlen, Jean Arthur, Mischa Auer, William Austin, George Bancroft, Clara Bow, Evelyn Brent, Mary Brian, Clive Brook, Virginia Bruce, Nancy Carroll, Ruth Chatterton, Maurice Chevalier, Gary Cooper, Cecil Cunningham, Leon Errol, Stuart Erwin, Henry Fink, Kay Francis, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, Harry Green Mitzi Green, Robert Greig, James Hall, Phillips Holmes, Helen Kane, Dennis King, Jack Luden, Fredric March, Nino Martini, Mitzi Mayfair, David Newell, Jack Oakie, Warner Oland, Zelma O'Neal, Eugene Pallette, Jack Pennick, Russ Powell, William Powell, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Lillian Roth, Jackie Searle, Rolfe Sedan, Stanley Smith, Fay Wray, Iris Adrian, Joan Peers.

 

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Showgirls on Parade
A Technicolor spectacle of chorus girls and ushers to the tune of the theme song.

Titles
Dissolves including studio scenes and toe-dancing by Mitzi Mayfair.

Introduction
Jack Oakie, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, and Leon Errol open with "We're the Masters of Ceremony."

Love Time
Charles "Buddy" Rogers and Lillian Roth with a boy-girl chorus on a cuckoo-clock set sing "Any Time's the Time To Fall in Love."

Murder Will Out
A travesty on detective mysteries with William Powell as Philo Vance, Clive Brook as Sherlock Holmes, Eugene Pallette as Sergeant Heath, Warner Oland as Dr.  Fu Manchu, and Jack Oakie as the victim.

Origin of the Apache
A slapstick sketch wth Maurice Chevalier and Evelyn Brent dancing in a bedroom, directed by Lubitsch.

Song of the Gondolier
Italian tenor Nino Martini appears in a Technicolor sketch singing "Torna a Sorrento."

In a Hospital
A comedy sketch with Leon Errol, Helen Kane, and David Newell.

In a Girl's Gym
Jack Oakie as the instructor and Zelma O'Neal as the jealous sweetheart, including the song "I'm in Training for You."

The Toreador
Harry Green as the Toreador and Kay Francis as Carmen in a comic sketch with the Marion Morgan dancers, with Green singing "I'm Isadore, the Toreador."

The Montmartre Girl
Ruth Chatterton in a Paris cafe sings "My Marine" to a quartette including Stuart Erwin, Stanley Smith, and Fredric March.

Park in Paris
Maurice Chevalier as a Paris gendarme patrols a park singing "All I Want Is Just One Girl."

Mitzi Herself
Mitzi Green sings the Chevalier song as Charlie Mack of Moran and Mack would sing it, then as Chevalier sings it.

The Schoolroom
Helen Kane is the teacher in a modernistic schoolroom singing "What Did Cleopatra Say?" to the children, who answer "Boop Boopa Doop."

The Gallows Song
Richard "Skeets" Gallagher demands that Dennis King sing, before he is hanged, Mana-Zucca's "Nichavo," a Russian love song--all in Technicolor.

Dance Mad
Nancy Carroll, with chorus support and Abe Lyman's band, does "Dancing To Save Your Sole."

Dream Girl
A sentimental interlude in Technicolor with Richard Arlen, Jean Arthur, Mary Brian, Gary Cooper, James Hall, Fay Wray, among others, featuring "Let Us Drink to the Girl of My Dreams."

The Redhead
Clara Bow appears with Jack Oakie, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, and a chorus of 42 sailors in "I'm True to the Navy Now."

Impulses
George Bancroft, at a social function with Kay Francis, William Austin, and others, demonstrates contrasts in social behavior.

The Rainbow Revels
Maurice Chevalier and a girls' chorus appear as Paris chimney sweeps in the Technicolor finale, singing "Sweeping the Clouds Away."

American Film Institute Catalog