Movielogr
Spring Parade (1940)
Directed by Henry Koster
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.
Rated NR | Length 89 minutes
Actors
Deanna Durbin | Robert Cummings | Mischa Auer | Henry Stephenson | S.Z. Sakall | Walter Catlett | Anne Gwynne | Peggy Moran | Reginald Denny | Kenneth Brown | Billy Lenhart | Franklin Pangborn | Edward Gargan | Wade Boteler | Samuel S. Hinds | Leon Belasco | Eddie Acuff | John Banner | Bobby Barber | Howard C. Hickman | Ethelreda Leopold | George O'Hanlon | Morgan Wallace | Kathryn Adams | Herbert Ashley | Michael Audley | Frank Austin | Polly Bailey | Vangie Beilby | Stanley Blystone | Harry C. Bradley | Jack Chefe | Dora Clement | Polly Connell | Virginia Engels | William Gould | Ernest Grooney | Grace Hayle | Herbert Heywood | Fay Holderness | Maynard Holmes | Paul Hurst | Claire James | Frank Jaquet | Sheldon Jett | Sidney Kibrick | Leslie Kaye | Carl M. Leviness | Jack Lomas | Aubrey Mather | Eric Mayne | Gene Morgan | Tony Paton | Joe Ploski | Thomas Pogue | Eddie Polo | Ronald R. Rondell | Sam Savitsky | Frank Sully | Henry Victor | Douglas Wood