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Spring Parade is a american film of genre Comedy directed by Henry Koster released in USA on 27 september 1940 with Deanna Durbin
Spring Parade (1940)
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Add to a movie listSpring Parade is a 1940 American musical comedy film directed by Henry Koster and starring Deanna Durbin. Based on a story by Ernst Marischka, the film is about an Hungarian woman who attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller which says she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Soon after the woman gets a job as a baker's assistant and meets a handsome army drummer who dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor, but is held back by the military which discourages original music. Wanting to help the army drummer, the woman sends one of his waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries, which leads to the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction. Spring Parade received four Academy Award nominations for Best Cinematography, Best Original Song, Best Musical Score, and Best Sound Recording.
It is a remake of the 1934 film Spring Parade. Producer Joe Pasternak and screenwriter Ernst Marischka worked on both films.
Actors
Deanna Durbin
(Ilonka Tolnay)
Joseph Valentine
Robert Cummings
(Corporal Harry Marten)
Mischa Auer
(Gustav)
Henry Stephenson
(Emperor Franz Joseph)
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