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Paramount on Parade is a 1930 all-star American pre-Code revue released by Paramount Pictures, directed by several directors including Edmund Goulding, Dorothy Arzner, Ernst Lubitsch, Rowland V. Lee, A. Edward Sutherland, Lothar Mendes, Otto Brower, Edwin H. Knopf, Frank Tuttle, and Victor Schertzinger—all supervised by the production supervisor, singer, actress, and songwriter Elsie Janis.
Featured stars included Jean Arthur, Richard Arlen, Clara Bow, Evelyn Brent, Buddy Rogers, Jack Oakie, Helen Kane, Maurice Chevalier, Nancy Carroll, George Bancroft, Kay Francis, Richard "Skeets" Gallagher, Gary Cooper, Fay Wray, Lillian Roth and other Paramount stars. The screenplay was written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, produced by Adolph Zukor and Jesse L. Lasky, with cinematography by Victor Milner and Harry Fischbeck.
Original Release
04/22/1930
US Release
04/22/1930
Cast
Name | Character |
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Richard Arlen | Hunter (Dream Girl) / Hunter - Episode 'Dream Girl' |
Jean Arthur | Dream Girl / Sweetheart - Episode 'Dream Girl' |
George Bancroft | Mug / Mug (Impulses) |
Clara Bow | Herself / Episode 'True to the Navy' |
Evelyn Brent | Apache Dancer / Bedroom Apache - Episode 'Origin of the Apache' |
Mary Brian | Sweetheart (Dream Girl) / Sweetheart - Episode 'Dream Girl' |
Clive Brook | Sherlock Holmes / Sherlock Holmes (Murder Will Out) |
Nancy Carroll | Herself / Episode 'Dance Mad' |
Maurice Chevalier | Apache / Apache - Episode 'Origin of the Apache' / 'Park in Paris' / Finale |
Gary Cooper | Hunter (Dream Girl) / Hunter - Episode 'Dream Girl' |
Directors
Edmund Goulding, Dorothy Arzner, Otto Brower, Victor Heerman, Edwin H. Knopf, Rowland V. Lee, Ernst Lubitsch, Lothar Mendes, Victor Schertzinger, A. Edward Sutherland, Frank Tuttle
Writers
Josep Carner Ribalta, Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast
Name | Character |
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Richard Arlen | Hunter (Dream Girl) / Hunter - Episode 'Dream Girl' |
Jean Arthur | Dream Girl / Sweetheart - Episode 'Dream Girl' |
George Bancroft | Mug / Mug (Impulses) |
Clara Bow | Herself / Episode 'True to the Navy' |
Evelyn Brent | Apache Dancer / Bedroom Apache - Episode 'Origin of the Apache' |
Mary Brian | Sweetheart (Dream Girl) / Sweetheart - Episode 'Dream Girl' |
Clive Brook | Sherlock Holmes / Sherlock Holmes (Murder Will Out) |
Nancy Carroll | Herself / Episode 'Dance Mad' |
Maurice Chevalier | Apache / Apache - Episode 'Origin of the Apache' / 'Park in Paris' / Finale |
Gary Cooper | Hunter (Dream Girl) / Hunter - Episode 'Dream Girl' |
James Hall | Episode 'Dream Girl' |
Dennis King | Man to be Hanged - Episode 'The Gallows Song' |
Abe Lyman | Abe Lyman - Episode - 'Dance Mad' |
William Powell | Philo Vance / Philo Vance (Murder Will Out) |
Charles 'Buddy' Rogers | Himself / Boy Singer (Love Time) / Buddy Rogers - Episode 'Love Time' |
Warner Oland | Fu Manchu (Murder Will Out) |
Lillian Roth | Herself / Lillian Roth - Episode 'Love Time' |
Fay Wray | Sweetheart / Sweetheart - Episode 'Dream Girl' |
Fredric March | Marine / Marine (The Montmartre Girl) |
Ruth Chatterton | Floozie / Floozie (The Montmartre Girl) |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Elsie Janis | Producer |
Albert A. Kaufman | Producer |
B.P. Schulberg | Producer |