The White Parade

The White Parade

This story was never told! …of girls nobody knows!

1934 · 80 min · ★ 6.8 · Drama

The title represents the hopeful, ambitious students at a hospital training school and is primarily a story of the stern discipline and laborious physical and mental toil they endure in order to become nurses and join the White Parade. It is told mainly through the character of June Arden who finds romance with Ronald Hall III on the way, with side stories of the other girls who find failure, success, laughs and tears on the way.

Directed by Irving Cummings · Written by Rian James

Your Rating

Cast

Make it a double feature

2h 33m together

The White Parade

The Mad Game

Both from Irving Cummings.

More from Irving CummingsSee all →

The Mad GameThe Mad Game · 1933
The Mad Game
★ 10.01933
MovieCrimeDrama
Bootlegger Ed Carson is sent to prison. His old gang turns from liquor (now legal) to kidnapping. When they nab the son and daughter-in-law of the judge who sent Carson to prison, he is paroled to help in the capture.
The JiltThe Jilt · 1922
The Jilt
★ 9.01922
MovieDrama
In 1919 Virginia, Rose Trenton mistakes pity for love and agrees to marry George Prothero, who was blinded in the war. She breaks the engagement, however, when she realizes she loves Sandy Sanderson, and the heartbroken, cynical George goes to Europe to forget.
Beautifully TrimmedBeautifully Trimmed · 1920
Beautifully Trimmed
★ 8.01920
MovieDramaThriller
Norine Lawton is a young woman living by her wits in New York City. When she becomes friendly with Count Bonzi, a swindler, he enlists her aid in his scheme to sell worthless Mercer oil company stock to wealthy Christopher Gibbons, a retired war hero.
One Year to LiveOne Year to Live · 1925
One Year to Live
★ 8.01925
MovieDrama
Young Elsie Duchanier, maid of the star dancer in the French Brunel's Follies, is deceived by a lascivious doctor into believing she has only one year to leave in his effort to seduce her. Separated from her true love American soldier Capt. Tom Kendrick when he is reassigned to the United States, she accepts Maurice Brunel's offer to make her the main attraction of his new Follies. She meets with enormous success, but Brunel demands she submit to his advances as the price he demands for making her a star which she refuses. Tom returns to France just in time to save her virtue and whisk her away.
Her Code of HonorHer Code of Honor · 1919
Her Code of Honor
★ 8.01919
MovieDrama
A man brings up, on Long Island, the illegitimate daughter of a deceased woman who'd been an art student in love with a married Parisian. Is a French man the daughter, now grown up, attracted to a descendant of that same Parisian as well?
The Desert FlowerThe Desert Flower · 1925
The Desert Flower
★ 8.01925
MovieWestern
A mining camp girl attempts to reform a young derelict addicted to drink. Colleen Moore broke her neck in a fall from a moving handcar during the making of this rousing sagebrush melodrama. The pert Moore, an idol of her generation, quickly regained her mobility but was reportedly forced to sleep in a leather neck support for nearly ten years.
Merry Go Round of 1938Merry Go Round of 1938 · 1937
Merry Go Round of 1938
★ 7.51937
MovieComedyRomance
Two screwy characters travel to Hollywood and cause mischief.
Riders UpRiders Up · 1924
Riders Up
★ 7.01924
MovieDrama
Johnny, a racetrack tout in Tijuana, is unsuccessful in his gambling but leads his New England family to believe he is engaged in a legitimate business. He finally wins on a long shot and intends to return home, though he dislikes leaving his sweetheart, Norah Ryan.
Poor Little Rich GirlPoor Little Rich Girl · 1936
Poor Little Rich Girl
★ 6.61936
MovieAdventureFamily
Cossetted and bored, Barbara Barry is finally sent off to school by her busy if doting widowed soap manufacturer father. When her nurse is injured en route, Barbara finds herself alone in town, ending up as part of radio song-and-dance act Dolan and Dolan sponsored by a rival soap company.
Jesse JamesJesse James · 1939
Jesse James
★ 6.61939
MovieWestern
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
Girls' DormitoryGirls' Dormitory · 1936
Girls' Dormitory
★ 6.61936
MovieDramaRomance
When a busybody teacher in a girls' finishing school finds a love letter from a student to an unknown man, a minor scandal erupts.
Broken Hearts of BroadwayBroken Hearts of Broadway · 1923
Broken Hearts of Broadway
★ 6.61923
MovieDrama
The story of a young actress trying to attain stardom on Broadway.
Curly TopCurly Top · 1935
Curly Top
★ 6.51935
MovieFamilyMusic
Wealthy Edward Morgan becomes charmed with a curly-haired orphan and her pretty older sister Mary and arranges to adopt both under the alias of "Mr. Jones". As he spends more time with them, he soon finds himself falling in love with Mary.
Double DynamiteDouble Dynamite · 1951
Double Dynamite
★ 6.51951
MovieComedyAdventure
An innocent bank teller, suspected of embezzlement, is aided by an eccentric, wisecracking waiter.
Sweet Rosie O'GradySweet Rosie O'Grady · 1943
Sweet Rosie O'Grady
★ 6.51943
MovieMusic
An American singer becomes engaged to an English duke, but is continuously pestered over her past as a burlesque dancer by a reporter from her hometown.
Down Argentine WayDown Argentine Way · 1940
Down Argentine Way
★ 6.41940
MovieComedyDrama
The story—in which an American heiress on holiday in South America falls in love with an Argentine horse breeder against the wishes of their families—takes a backseat to the spectacular location shooting and parade of extravagant musical numbers, which include the larger-than-life Carmen Miranda singing the hit “South American Way” and a showstopping dance routine by the always amazing Nicholas Brothers.

More Like This

Snow CakeSnow Cake · 2006
Snow Cake
★ 7.12006
MovieRomanceDrama
A drama focused on the friendship between a high-functioning autistic woman and a man who is traumatized after a fatal car accident.
The Mothman PropheciesThe Mothman Prophecies · 2002
The Mothman Prophecies
★ 6.22002
MovieDramaHorror
Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror when fate draws him to the sleepy West Virginia town of Point Pleasant, whose residents are being visited by a great winged shape that sows hideous nightmares and fevered visions.
Modern TimesModern Times · 1936
Modern Times
★ 8.31936
MovieComedyDrama
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time...
SickoSicko · 2007
Sicko
★ 7.42007
MovieDocumentaryComedy
A documentary about the corrupt health care system in The United States whose main goal is to make profit even if it means losing people’s lives. "The more people you deny health insurance, the more money we make" is the business model for health care providers in America.
ClickClick · 2006
Click
★ 6.32006
MovieComedyDrama
A married workaholic, Michael Newman doesn't have time for his wife and children, not if he's to impress his ungrateful boss and earn a well-deserved promotion. So when he meets Morty, a loopy sales clerk, he gets the answer to his prayers: a magical remote that allows him to bypass life's little distractions with increasingly hysterical results.
John QJohn Q · 2002
John Q
★ 7.22002
MovieDramaThriller
John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a hospital full of patients hostage until the hospital puts his son's name on the donor's list.
Bringing Out the DeadBringing Out the Dead · 1999
Bringing Out the Dead
★ 6.61999
MovieDrama
Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn't help, yet cannot quit the job on his own.
Suicide KingsSuicide Kings · 1997
Suicide Kings
★ 6.61997
MovieActionComedy
Carlo, a former mobster, is abducted by five privileged young men desperate to raise a $2 million ransom to save the sister of a friend. As Carlo plays mind games, however, his captors splinter -- each wondering whether one of their own had a hand in the crime.
Patch AdamsPatch Adams · 1998
Patch Adams
★ 7.31998
MovieComedyDrama
The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, and was willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh—even if it meant risking his own career.
Hanging UpHanging Up · 2000
Hanging Up
★ 5.32000
MovieDramaComedy
Three sisters - Georgia, Eve, and Maddy - do what they do best with life, love, and lunacy on the telephone lines that bind - when their curmudgeonly father, Lou, is admitted to a Los Angeles Hospital. After years of wild living, intermittent affection, and constant phoning, he is finally threatening to die.
LoveLove · 2024
Love
★ 6.82024
MovieRomanceDrama
Marianne, a doctor, and Tor, a nurse, avoid relationships. After meeting on a ferry where Tor seeks casual encounters, Marianne explores the possibility of spontaneous intimacy, questioning societal norms.
Only YouOnly You · 2014
Only You
★ 7.32014
MovieActionDrama
The passionate love between a former boxer and a beautiful blind woman.
Ghost TownGhost Town · 2008
Ghost Town
★ 6.52008
MovieComedyRomance
Bertram Pincus, a cranky, people-hating Manhattan dentist, develops the unwelcome ability to see dead people. Really annoying dead people. Even worse, they all want something from him, particularly Frank Herlihy, a smooth-talking ghost, who pesters him into a romantic scheme involving his widow Gwen. They are soon entangled in a hilarious predicament between the now and the hereafter!
FireproofFireproof · 2008
Fireproof
★ 7.72008
MovieDramaRomance
A heroic fire captain values dedication and service to others above all else, but the most important partnership in his life, his marriage, is about to go up in smoke.
The FallThe Fall · 2008
The Fall
★ 7.62008
MovieAdventureFantasy
In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.

Rate this film

Your ratings make Midnight smarter