Spring Parade

Spring Parade

LIVE, LAUGH and LOVE! With a Dancing, Romancing Deanna!

NR 1940 · 89 min · ★ 6.9 · Comedy, Music

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.

Directed by Henry Koster · Written by Bruce Manning

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Cast

Deanna Durbin Ilonka Tolnay
Robert Cummings Corporal Harry Marten
Mischa Auer Gustav
Henry Stephenson Emperor Franz Joseph
S.Z. Sakall Latislav Teschek - the Baker
Walter Catlett Headwaiter
Anne Gwynne Jenny
Peggy Moran Archduchess Irene
Reginald Denny The Major
Kenneth Brown Moritz
Billy Lenhart Max
Franklin Pangborn Wiedlemeyer

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