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Paramount on Parade (1930) was a Musical Film directed by Victor Heerman and Edwin H. Knopf and produced by Adolph Zukor, Jesse L. Lasky, B.P. Schulberg, Elsie Janis and Albert A. Kaufman.

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Musical Monday: Paramount on Parade (1930)

on Dec 29, 2025 From Comet Over Hollywood

It?s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week?s musical: Paramount on Parade (1930) ?... Read full article


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One of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. The television version only ran 77 minutes and contained no Technicolor footage.
Jeanette MacDonald's participation in Nino Martini's "Song of the Gondolier" musical number was cut from the US version before it was released, but may survive in the Spanish version of the film.
There were originally 20 individual sequences (seven of them were filmed in primitive 2-strip Technicolor) using seven directors and virtually every star then on a Paramount contract.
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