Spring Parade
Spring Parade
Release: 1940-09-27
·Runtime: 89m
·★ 6.7
Comedy
Music
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Universal Pictures
Cast
Deanna Durbin
as Ilonka Tolnay
Walter Catlett
as Headwaiter
Wade Boteler
as Sergeant
Sidney Kibrick
as Boy
Gene Morgan
as Waiter
Mischa Auer
as Gustav
Harry C. Bradley
as Mandate
Dora Clement
as Mrs. Tressler
Frank Sully
as Bert - Shawl Salesman
Eddie Polo
as Cafe Proprietor
John Banner
as Cymbalist (uncredited)
Stanley Blystone
as Detective
Fay Holderness
as Townswoman
Tony Paton
as Waiter
Samuel S. Hinds
as Von Zimmel
S.Z. Sakall
as Latislav Teschek - the Baker
Carl M. Leviness
as Townsman
Douglas Wood
as General
Reginald Denny
as The Major
Leon Belasco
as Violinist Orchestra Leader
Eddie Acuff
as Earl (uncredited)
Maynard Holmes
as Bugler
Howard Hickman
as Colonel (uncredited)
Ethelreda Leopold
as Townswoman (uncredited)
Frank Austin
as Customer
William Gould
as Chief of Detectives
Kenneth Brown
as Moritz
Franklin Pangborn
as Wiedlemeyer
Edward Gargan
as Inga - the Fortune Teller
Morgan Wallace
as Frederick - Aide-de-Camp (uncredited)
Grace Hayle
as Mrs. Burkhart
Paul Hurst
as Headwaiter
Robert Cummings
as Corporal Harry Marten
Billy Lenhart
as Max
Ronald R. Rondell
as Restaurant Patron
Henry Stephenson
as Emperor Franz Joseph
Kathryn Adams
as Girl with Fortune Teller
Herbert Heywood
as Sepp - Wagon Driver
Peggy Moran
as Archduchess Irene
Claire James
as Cafe Customer
George O'Hanlon
as Peasant (uncredited)
Jack Chefe
as Josef - Waiter
Aubrey Mather
as Baron
Henry Victor
as Dutch Officer
Anne Gwynne
as Jenny
Bobby Barber
as Waiter Who Spills Tray (uncredited)
Eric Mayne
as Nobleman
