Admission: $2.50
Maurice Chevalier marries Jeanette MacDonald (this is her film debut), ruler of a feminist queendom, and discovers his true position when the wedding ceremony pronounces them “Wife and Man.” Valet Lupino Lane and maid Lillian Roth provide an amusing commentary on their masters' affairs. UCLA Film Archives' Charles Hopkins writes, “Lubitsch turned the conventions of stage operetta on their heads to create a deft, intimate (his performers often spoke and sang directly to the camera), sophisticated style of musical comedy that contrasted both with the stupefying extravaganzas other directors were making at the time and the later, elaborately choreographed film musicals of Busby Berkeley and Fred Astaire. The Love Parade was the first in a delightful procession of Lubitsch musicals that included Monte Carlo (see February 13), The Smiling Lieutenant, One Hour with You, and The Merry Widow.”