Spring Parade
movie
LIVE, LAUGH and LOVE! With a Dancing, Romancing Deanna!
Released September 27, 1940
Overview
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.
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
Walter Catlett
as
Headwaiter
Anne Gwynne
as
Jenny
Peggy Moran
as
Archduchess Irene
Reginald Denny
as
The Major
Kenneth Brown
as
Moritz
Billy Lenhart
as
Max
Franklin Pangborn
as
Wiedlemeyer
