Production
Paramount on Parade, released on April 22, 1930, was Paramount's answer to all-star revues like Hollywood Revue of 1929 from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, The Show of Shows from Warner Brothers, and King of Jazz from Universal Studios. The film had 20 individual segments—several of them in two-strip Technicolor — directed by 11 directors, and almost every star on the Paramount roster except Claudette Colbert and the Marx Brothers. (Colbert became a star in May 1930 with the release of The Big Pond, also with Chevalier and also released in a French-language version.)
Internet Movie Database says the Jeanette MacDonald segment — showing her and Metropolitan Opera tenor Nino Martini just before he sings "Come Back to Sorrento" — was cut from the release print, but may still exist in Galas de la Paramount, the Spanish-language version of the film. Paramount also produced a French-language version Paramount en Parade directed by Charles de Rochefort and a Romanian-language version Parada Paramount (see IMDB links below). Chevalier and Martini also starred in the French version, and Romanian actress Pola Illéry starred in the Romanian version. There was also a Dutch version, Paramount op Parade with Theo Frenkel.
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