Spring Parade

The story

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 & crew

Deanna DurbinIlonka Tolnay

Robert CummingsCorporal Harry Marten

Mischa AuerGustav

Henry StephensonEmperor Franz Joseph

S.Z. SakallLatislav Teschek - the Baker

Walter CatlettHeadwaiter

Anne GwynneJenny

Peggy MoranArchduchess Irene

Reginald DennyThe Major

Kenneth BrownMoritz

Billy LenhartMax

Franklin PangbornWiedlemeyer