Spring Parade

Spring Parade is a 1940 American musical comedy film directed by Henry Koster and starring Deanna Durbin. It is a remake of the 1934 film. Plot Based on a story by Ernst Marischka, the film is about a Hungarian woman who attends a Viennese fair and buys a card from a gypsy fortune teller which says she will meet someone important and is destined for a happy marriage. Soon after the woman gets a job as a baker's assistant and meets a handsome army drummer who dreams of becoming a famous composer and conductor, but is held back by the military which discourages original music. Wanting to help the army drummer, the woman sends one of his waltzes to the Austrian Emperor with his weekly order of pastries, which leads to the tuneful and joyous fulfillment of the gypsy's prediction. Cast Deanna Durbin as Ilonka Tolnay Robert Cummings as Corporal Harry Marten Mischa Auer as Gustav Henry Stephenson as Emperor Franz Joseph S. Z. Sakall as Laci Teschek - the Baker Billy Lenhart as Max Kenneth Brown as Moritz Walter Catlett as Headwaiter Anne Gwynne as Jenny Allyn Joslyn as Count Zorndorf Peggy Moran as Archduchess Irene Reginald Denny as The Major Stanley Blystone as Detective (uncredited) Paul Hurst as Headwaiter (uncredited) Production In January 1940 Universal announced Durbin's next film would be Spring Parade. Joe Pasternak called it "a musical of Old Vienna" that was similar to Blossom Time. It was a remake of a film Pasternak had made in 1934.