Maurice Chevalier's playboy soldier finds married life to the Queen of Sylvania (a debuting Jeannette MacDonald) something of an ordeal in this frothy Lubitsch offering. Released in 1929, The Love Parade shows little of the awkwardness found in many other movies made during the difficult transition to sound, but the paper-thin fairy tale plot is a little creaky. The charming Chevalier shines between comic interludes of varying quality from Lupino Lane and Lillian Roth.
Review of The Love Parade
