Hollywood on Parade, Volume 1 (MOD) (DVD MOVIE)

Hollywood on Parade was a series of "celebrity newsreel" shorts by Paramount Pictures. Director Louis Lewyn used the studio's contracted stars in original musical numbers, comic sketches, "stars at home" scenes, and often integrated the pieces with frame stories and publicity coverage of Hollywood parties and premieres.

• Fredric March hosts a musical revue with Mitzi Green, Ginger Rogers, Jack Duffy, and Eddie Peabody.
• Eddie Borden plays a Hollywood mailman making deliveries to various stars, including Richard Arlen and Jobyna Ralston, Mary Pickford, Bing Crosby, and Tom Mix. Mickey Daniels hosts, with appearances by Roland Young, Ken Maynard, Jeanette MacDonald, and Maurice Chevalier.
• Child stars Jackie Searle and Jane Withers present Barbara Stanwyck, Frank Fay, Kate Smith, Wesley Ruggles, and Arline Judge.
• As "messenger boy for a day" at Paramount's studio, Frankie Darro encounters Cary Grant, Mary Boland, Leo Carrillo, William Gargan, Claudette Colbert, Thelma Todd, Norman Foster, Anita Stewart, Gene Raymond, Richard Dix, Fay Wray, George Raft, Jean Harlow, Arline Judge, Constance Cummings, El Brendel, Jeanette MacDonald, Paulette Goddard, and Charlie Chaplin.
• The Motion Picture Theater Owners of America Convention enjoys appearances by Gracie Allen, George Burns, Adolphe Menjou, Cary Grant, Cecil B. DeMille, Henry Wilcoxon, and W.C. Fields.
• On a bus tour of Hollywood, fans spot Ruth Etting, Jimmy Durante, Clara Bow, Joan Crawford, Alice White, Jean Harlow, Baby LeRoy, Randolph Scott, Gary Cooper, Fredric March, Charles Bickford, Jackie Cooper, Harpo Marx, and Maurice Chevalier.

DVD Details

>Rated: NR
>Runtime: 1 hours, 0 minutes
>Video: 0
>Encoding: Region 1(US & Canada)
>Originally Released: 1/1/2025
>Label: Alpha Video

Starring: Ginger Rogers; Richard Arlen; Kate Smith; Cary Grant; George Raft; Cecil B. DeMille; W.C. Fields; Maurice Chevalier; Bela Lugosi