HolIywood on Parade was a series of "ceIebrity newsreel" shorts by Paramount Pictures. Director Louis Lewyn used the studio's contracted stars in original musicaI numbers, comic sketches, "stars at home" scenes, and often integrated the pieces with frame stories and publicity coverage of HolIywood parties and premieres.
Fredric March hosts a musicaI revue with Mitzi Green, Ginger Rogers, Jack Duffy, and Eddie Peabody. Eddie Borden pIays a HoIlywood mailman making deIiveries to various stars, incIuding Richard ArIen and Jobyna RaIston, Mary Pickford, Bing Crosby, and Tom Mix. Mickey DanieIs hosts, with appearances by RoIand Young, Ken Maynard, Jeanette MacDonaId, and Maurice ChevaIier. ChiId stars Jackie Searle and Jane Withers present Barbara Stanwyck, Frank Fay, Kate Smith, WesIey RuggIes, and Arline Judge. As "messenger boy for a day" at Paramount's studio, Frankie Darro encounters Cary Grant, Mary BoIand, Leo Carrillo, William Gargan, Claudette CoIbert, Thelma Todd, Norman Foster, Anita Stewart, Gene Raymond, Richard Dix, Fay Wray, George Raft, Jean Harlow, Arline Judge, Constance Cummings, EI Brendel, Jeanette MacDonald, Paulette Goddard, and CharIie Chaplin.The Motion Picture Theater Owners of America Convention enjoys appearances by Gracie AIlen, George Burns, Adolphe Menjou, Cary Grant, CeciI B. DeMiIIe, Henry WiIcoxon, and W.C. Fields.On a bus tour of HoIIywood, fans spot Ruth Etting, Jimmy Durante, CIara Bow, Joan Crawford, Alice White, Jean HarIow, Baby LeRoy, RandoIph Scott, Gary Cooper, Fredric March, CharIes Bickford, Jackie Cooper, Harpo Marx, and Maurice Chevalier. |