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Paramount on Parade

Year:

1930

Duration:

USA:102 min (original version) | USA:77 min (existing print)

Genres:

Musical

IMDB rate:

6.3

Director:

Dorothy Arzner

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1930-04-22

Filming Locations: Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Cast

Actor

Character

Maurice Chevalier

Himself / Apache (Origin of the Apache) / Paris Park Gendarme (In a Park in Paris) / Chimney Sweep (Finale)

Richard Arlen

Hunter (Dream Girl)

Jean Arthur

Sweetheart (Dream Girl / In a Hospital)

William Austin

Partygoer (Impulses)

George Bancroft

Mug (Impulses)

Clara Bow

Herself (True to the Navy)

Evelyn Brent

Bedroom Apache Dancer (Origin of the Apache)

Mary Brian

Sweetheart (Dream Girl)

Clive Brook

Sherlock Holmes (Murder Will Out)

Nancy Carroll

Herself (Dance Mad)

Ruth Chatterton

Floozie (The Montmartre Girl)

Gary Cooper

Hunter (Dream Girl)

Leon Errol

Himself / Master of Ceremonies / (In a Hospital)

Stuart Erwin

Marine (The Montmartre Girl)

Kay Francis

Carmen (Isadore the Toreador) / Party Girl (Impulses)

Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher

Himself / Master of Ceremonies

Harry Green

Toreador (Isadore the Toreador)

Mitzi Green

Herself (In a Park in Paris)

James Hall

Hunter (Dream Girl)

Helen Kane

Schoolteacher (The Schoolroom)

Dennis King

Man to be Hanged (The Gallows Song)

Abe Lyman

Himself - Orchestra Leader (Dance Mad) (as Abe Lyman and His Orchestra)

Fredric March

Marine (The Montmartre Girl)

Nino Martini

Gondolier (Song of the Gondolier)

Mitzi Mayfair

Toe-Dancer (Prologue)

Jack Oakie

Himself / Master of Ceremonies / Fu Manchu's Victim (Murder Will Out) / Girls Gym Instructor (In a Girls' Gym)

Warner Oland

Fu Manchu (Murder Will Out)

Zelma O'Neal

Gym Sweetheart (In a Girls' Gym)

Eugene Pallette

Sergeant Heath (Murder Will Out)

William Powell

Philo Vance (Murder Will Out)

Charles 'Buddy' Rogers

Himself / Boy Singer (Love Time)

Lillian Roth

Herself / Girl Singer (Love Time)

Stanley Smith

Marine (The Montmartre Girl)

Fay Wray

Sweetheart (Dream Girl)

Frankie Genardi

Iris Adrian

Chorus Girl

Mischa Auer

Thug (Murder Will Out) (uncredited)

Ludwig Berger

Supporting Role (The Gallows Song) (uncredited)

Ljubinka Bobic

Minor Role (uncredited)

Mozelle Britton

Chorus Girl

Virginia Bruce

Chorus Girl

Lorena Carr

Chorus Girl

Wong Chung

Minor Role (uncredited)

Cecil Cunningham

Society Woman (Impulses) (uncredited)

Jack Dart

Boy (uncredited)

Dubravko Dujsin

Minor Role (uncredited)

Henry Fink

Minor Role (uncredited)

Edmund Goulding

Himself / Director (uncredited)

Robert Greig

Minor Role (uncredited)

Phillips Holmes

Sweetheart (In a Hospital) (uncredited)

Jane Keithley

Chorus Girl

Rosina Lawrence

Chorus Girl

Barbara Leonard

Chorus Girl

Jack Luden

Minor Role (uncredited)

Lucille Miller

Chorus Girl

David Newell

Sweetheart in Gondola (Song of the Gondolier) (uncredited)

Al Norman

Eccentric Dancer (uncredited)

Joan Peers

Chorus Girl

Jack Pennick

Marine (The Montmartre Girl) (uncredited)

Russ Powell

Minor Role (uncredited)

Ernst Rolf

Minor Role (uncredited)

Jackie Searl

Student (The Schoolroom) (uncredited)

Rolfe Sedan

Minor Role (uncredited)

Gay Sheridan

Chorus Girl

Prudence Sutton

Chorus Girl

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Trivia

One of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. The television version only ran 77 minutes and contained no Technicolor footage.