Spring Parade

Overview

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.

Cast

Deanna Durbin

Ilonka Tolnay

Robert Cummings

Corporal Harry Marten

Mischa Auer

Gustav

Henry Stephenson

Emperor Franz Joseph

S.Z. Sakall

Latislav Teschek - the Baker

Walter Catlett

Headwaiter

Anne Gwynne

Jenny

Peggy Moran

Archduchess Irene

Reginald Denny

The Major

Kenneth Brown

Moritz

Billy Lenhart

Max

Franklin Pangborn

Wiedlemeyer