Spring Parade
LIVE, LAUGH and LOVE! With a Dancing, Romancing Deanna!
1940 | 89m | English
Popularity: 0.8 (history)
| Director: | Henry Koster |
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| Writer: | Ernst Marischka, Bruce Manning, Felix Jackson |
| Staring: |
| 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: | Sep 27, 1940 |
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| Director: | Henry Koster |
| Writer: | Ernst Marischka, Bruce Manning, Felix Jackson |
| Genres: | Comedy, Music |
| Keywords | musical |
| Production Companies | Universal Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 25, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Edward Gargan | Inga - the Fortune Teller |
| Wade Boteler | Sergeant |
| Samuel S. Hinds | Von Zimmel |
| Leon Belasco | Violinist Orchestra Leader |
| Eddie Acuff | Earl (uncredited) |
| John Banner | Cymbalist (uncredited) |
| Bobby Barber | Waiter Who Spills Tray (uncredited) |
| Howard Hickman | Colonel (uncredited) |
| Ethelreda Leopold | Townswoman (uncredited) |
| George O'Hanlon | Peasant (uncredited) |
| Morgan Wallace | Frederick - Aide-de-Camp (uncredited) |
| Kathryn Adams | Girl with Fortune Teller |
| Herbert Ashley | Detective |
| Michael Audley | Hans |
| Frank Austin | Customer |
| Polly Bailey | Minnie |
| Vangie Beilby | Townswoman |
| Stanley Blystone | Detective |
| Harry C. Bradley | Mandate |
| Jack Chefe | Josef - Waiter |
| Dora Clement | Mrs. Tressler |
| Polly Connell | Townswoman |
| Virginia Engels | Girl in Cafe |
| William Gould | Chief of Detectives |
| Ernest Grooney | Townsman |
| Grace Hayle | Mrs. Burkhart |
| Herbert Heywood | Sepp - Wagon Driver |
| Fay Holderness | Townswoman |
| Maynard Holmes | Bugler |
| Paul Hurst | Headwaiter |
| Claire James | Cafe Customer |
| Frank Jaquet | Detective |
| Sheldon Jett | Policeman |
| Sidney Kibrick | Boy |
| Leslie Kaye | Townswoman |
| Carl M. Leviness | Townsman |
| Jack Lomas | Customer |
| Aubrey Mather | Baron |
| Eric Mayne | Nobleman |
| Gene Morgan | Waiter |
| Tony Paton | Waiter |
| Joe Ploski | Townsman |
| Thomas Pogue | Customer |
| Eddie Polo | Cafe Proprietor |
| Ronald R. Rondell | Restaurant Patron |
| Sam Savitsky | Nobleman |
| Frank Sully | Bert - Shawl Salesman |
| Henry Victor | Dutch Officer |
| Douglas Wood | General |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Henry Koster | Director |
| Ernst Marischka | Original Story |
| Bruce Manning | Screenplay |
| Felix Jackson | Screenplay |
| Hans J. Salter | Music |
| Joseph A. Valentine | Director of Photography |
| Bernard W. Burton | Editor |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Joe Pasternak | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 1 |
| 2024 | 5 | 7 | 14 | 3 |
| 2024 | 6 | 6 | 21 | 2 |
| 2024 | 7 | 4 | 10 | 1 |
| 2024 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 1 |
| 2024 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 2024 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
| 2024 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 1 |
| 2024 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 2025 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
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Deanna Durbin signs her heart out here as the Hungarian peasant "Ilonka". She's been told by a fortune teller that happiness is looming - and she reckons that might just have come true when she encounters "Harry" (Robert Cummings) - a drummer in the Imperial army. Meantime, though, he is fond of wri ... ting music, a skill prohibited in the military so she determines to somehow get his works in front of the Emperor (Henry Stephenson). Creatively, she takes to hiding them in the salt sticks that her boss the baker (S.Z. Sakall) makes daily for the court. That's quite a risky tactic as those who surround the throne worry that this could be a plot to poison their ruler and so the baker finds himself incarcerated, and "Ilonka" has to make a tough - and brave - decision. It's quite a charming mix of musical and romance this, with a bit of chemistry between Durbin and Cummings and with the scene-stealing Sakall and Stephenson also on good form guiding this gently evolving storyline towards it's inevitable and pleasing conclusion. "Waltzing on the Clouds" has the germ of an ear-worm to it - you might find yourself humming it long after the film has ended!