DIRECTOR: Earnest Lubitsch
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Nominated for and won multiple Academy Awards
Starring Maurice Chevalier and Jennette McDonald, plus Lionel Barrymore
IMDB Link: Love Parade
Despite it being nominated for so many Academy Awards this is not as much fun as some other Lubitsch films. The theme is 'no man will be happy if he must obey his wife, even if she is The Queen.' As one of the film's characters says "A man is a man and no man will ever be happy as a wife". On the upside, there is some fine physical comedy; Chevalier is charming as ever; MacDonald appears in some pretty skimpy clothing; the staging and styles of the time are impressive. But the full tilt charm of other Lubitsch films is missing.
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