A musical revue that has Paramount stars and contract-players doing unrelated short sketches and elaborately staged song-and-dance numbers like a duet on a giant cuckoo clock and Clara Bow s... Read allA musical revue that has Paramount stars and contract-players doing unrelated short sketches and elaborately staged song-and-dance numbers like a duet on a giant cuckoo clock and Clara Bow singing aboard a navy vessel.A musical revue that has Paramount stars and contract-players doing unrelated short sketches and elaborately staged song-and-dance numbers like a duet on a giant cuckoo clock and Clara Bow singing aboard a navy vessel.
- Awards
- 3 wins total
Charles 'Buddy' Rogers
- Buddy Rogers - Episode 'Love Time'
- (as Buddy Rogers)
Storyline
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- TriviaOf the original 20 individual sequences, seven of them were filmed in 2-strip Technicolor: the opening sequence: 'Showgirls on Parade', Nino Martini's 'Come Back to Sorrento,' Harry Green's 'Isadore the Toreador' with Kay Francis, Dennis King's 'Nitchavo,' 'Girl of My Dreams', with Richard Arlen, Jean Arthur, Mary Brian, Virginia Bruce, Gary Cooper, James Hall, Phillips Holmes, David Newell, Joan Peers, and Fay Wray, of which only the B&W introduction survives, and the 'Rainbow Revels' finale featuring Maurice Chevalier singing 'Sweeping the Clouds Away', which also survives in B&W. The total Technicolor footage was 2517 feet (768 m), or about 28 minutes.
- GoofsThe re-release opening credits credit producer Jesse L. Lasky as "Jessie" L. Lasky.
- Quotes
Jack Oakie: It's a mystery play written especially for me!
- Alternate versionsVersion for distribution of the original film in Romania, titled Parada Paramount (1930) included additional sketches by Romanian actors Ion Ian-Covescu and Pola Iliescu
- ConnectionsAlternate-language version of Parada Paramount (1930)
- SoundtracksAll I Want Is Just One Girl
Music by Richard A. Whiting
Lyrics by Leo Robin
Sung by Maurice Chevalier
Sung also by Mitzi Green
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A couple of years into the Talkie revolution, several studios put on feature-length revues to promote their brand, of which Paramount's effort seems to have been better than most, even though it has not worn particularly well since. (Also the print I watched was notably fuzzy and dim.)
Deservedly, it gives generous exposure to Maurice Chevalier, who had just rescued the studio's fortunes with his Ruritanian romance 'The Love Parade', just as the Wall Street crash was threatening to ruin Hollywood. In particular, his energetic closing act, 'Sweeping the Clouds Away', accompanied by an endless line of leggy beauties, was clearly meant as a cheer-up call for the Depression-hit masses.
As for the other performers, I can only say that they remind us of the transience of fame (at a range of nearly a century). Not one in ten of these names mean anything to us today. Jack Oakie seems to occupy second place, and although I have often enjoyed his work, I think he was personality rather than artistry. Interesting to catch a glimpse of the young Frederick March. Otherwise, Gary Cooper, Clara Bow and Fay Wray more-or-less complete the roll of memorable stars.
Deservedly, it gives generous exposure to Maurice Chevalier, who had just rescued the studio's fortunes with his Ruritanian romance 'The Love Parade', just as the Wall Street crash was threatening to ruin Hollywood. In particular, his energetic closing act, 'Sweeping the Clouds Away', accompanied by an endless line of leggy beauties, was clearly meant as a cheer-up call for the Depression-hit masses.
As for the other performers, I can only say that they remind us of the transience of fame (at a range of nearly a century). Not one in ten of these names mean anything to us today. Jack Oakie seems to occupy second place, and although I have often enjoyed his work, I think he was personality rather than artistry. Interesting to catch a glimpse of the young Frederick March. Otherwise, Gary Cooper, Clara Bow and Fay Wray more-or-less complete the roll of memorable stars.
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- May 13, 2022
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- Paramount Şeref Geçidi
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- Runtime1 hour 42 minutes
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- 1.20 : 1
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