Spring Parade (1940)
LIVE, LAUGH and LOVE! With a Dancing, Romancing Deanna!
89 min
In this light and lovely romantic musical, a Hungarian woman attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller. It says that she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Afterward she gets a job as a baker's assistant. She then meets a handsome army drummer who secretly dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor. Unfortunately the military forbids the young corporal to create his own music. But then Ilonka secretly sends one of the drummer's waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries. Her act paves the way toward the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction.
- Release date
- September 27, 1940
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Deanna Durbin as Ilonka Tolnay
- Robert Cummings as Corporal Harry Marten
- Mischa Auer as Gustav
- Henry Stephenson as Emperor Franz Joseph
- S.Z. Sakall as Latislav Teschek - the Baker
- Billy Lenhart as Max
- Kenneth Brown as Moritz
- Walter Catlett as Headwaiter
- Anne Gwynne as Jenny
- Allyn Joslyn as Count Zorndorf
Crew
- Henry Koster · Director
- Bruce Manning · Writer
- Felix Jackson · Writer
- Ernst Marischka · Writer
- Joe Pasternak · Producer
- Charles Previn · Composer
- Joseph A. Valentine · Cinematographer
- Bernard W. Burton · Editor