These notes accompany the screenings of Vincente Minnelli’s The Band Wagon on July 4, 5, and 6.
The Hollywood backstage musical had been a mainstay since the birth of the talkies.
The Hollywood backstage musical had been a mainstay since the birth of the talkies.
These notes accompany screenings of Ernst Lubitsch’s </i>The Love Parade, August 18, 19, and 20 in Theater 3.</p>
Ernst Lubitsch (1892–1947) followed up The Marriage Circle (1924) with eight more silents (three of which are sadly lost). In 1929, that probably made him the odds-on favorite among all then-prominent directors to succeed as sound was coming in. With The Love Parade, Lubitsch did not disappoint.
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