The fortunes of a Broadway costume company rise and fall depending on who is running it, and whether its clients' shows succeed or not.The fortunes of a Broadway costume company rise and fall depending on who is running it, and whether its clients' shows succeed or not.The fortunes of a Broadway costume company rise and fall depending on who is running it, and whether its clients' shows succeed or not.
Lilian Bond
- Sewing Girl
- (uncredited)
Buster Brodie
- Little Man in Vassily's Prologue
- (uncredited)
Charles Coleman
- Laffingwell
- (uncredited)
Helen Jerome Eddy
- Delman's Secretary
- (uncredited)
Douglas Gerrard
- Toreador with No Pants
- (uncredited)
June Gittelson
- Miss Hemingway
- (uncredited)
Ethel Griffies
- Mrs. Beacon
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAlthough it was filmed in 2-strip Technicolor, 35MM surviving material is in black & white, but UCLA holdings include a 16MM color print. Two songs by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler, "I Love a Parade" and "Temporarily Blue," were cut before release, although "I Love A Parade" is heard over the opening and closing credits. "I'm Happy When You're Jealous" by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby was also cut before release.
- Quotes
Herbert T. Herbert: Henry the VIII wore night gowns. No, pajamas weren't introduced into bed - into England - until much later.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood (2008)
- SoundtracksI Love a Parade
(1931) (uncredited)
(From the first "Cotton Club" revue)
Music by Harold Arlen
Played during the opening and end credits
Featured review
songs would have helped
"Manhattan Parade" unspools like the libretto of one of those silly musical comedies of the 1920s except without the songs. Imagine something like "No, No Nanette" without the Youmans-Caesar score or any of the Busby Berkeley musicals without the songs and dance numbers. Plot elements abound but few are developed. The one consistent thread involves the blunders of a pair of bickering, ridiculously naïve Broadway producers played by the exhaustingly verbose vaudeville team of Smith & Dale who get mixed up with a floundering Broadway costume company run by a married couple (Walter Miller and Winnie Lightner) whose staff includes Charles Butterworth (a perfect blend of Stan Laurel and George Arliss) as a bookish researcher and Bobby Watson as an extremely effeminate costume designer (a character type he would repeat a couple of years later in "Moonlight and Pretzels"). Dickie Moore has some excellent moments as Miller and Lightner's neglected but self-reliant little son and Luis Alberni gobbles scenery as a mad Russian director. There are a couple of interesting shots of Times Square in 1931 (including a partially visible marquee for the Capra feature "Ladies of Leisure" which starred Barbara Stanwyck).
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