“SPRING PARADE”
DEANNA DURBIN’S FILM MANY “FIRSTS” ESTABLISHED Deanna Durbin’s picture, “Spring Parade,” will establish a number of “firsts” for the singing star. It will be the first time she has ever appeared in costume. Deanna has the role of a Hungarian peasant girl, and wears the voluminous dress and starched underskirts of the peasant folk. It will be her first period picture. The story is laid in 1896 in the time of Franz Josef, Emperor of Austria. It will be the first time she has performed anything but ballroom dancing in her films. In “Spring Parade” she does the czardas, wild Hungarian peasant dance, with Mischa Auer. For the first time in her eight pictures music for her songs has been specially written for her voice, and —also, for the first time —she will sing a duet with her leading man, Robert Cummings.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21194, 17 August 1940, Page 13 (Supplement)
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144“SPRING PARADE” Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21194, 17 August 1940, Page 13 (Supplement)
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