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Above: Director Ernst Lubitsch plays a Victor Schertzinger duet with Jeanette MacDonald, the heroine of "The Love Parade." Lubitsch is an accomplished pianist.
Photo by E.
Schoeiibauni
Lubitsch and Chevalier agreed to limit themselves to one cigar a day. The director's eight-hour smoke shows up the star's favorite little panatella.
proof camera booths) and smiled in happy approval.
"Chevalier is a wonderful fellow, Bob," he said as we strolled over to the playback room to hear the result. "He has a fine figure, a splendid voice, intelligence, magnificent art, and above all — sharm'." (Lubitsch still has difficulty with his c's.) "Even his accent, instead of being a handicap, adds to his sharm. And such a gentleman, Bob, don't you think so? This has been the happiest picture I've ever made. Not a cross word or an angry look. Everybody loves Chevalier. He is just as sharming as his screen personality. No wonder he is such a colossal success."
"It seems strange," he went on later as we lunched together, "that I have made so many French comedies and this is the first time Eve ever made one with a real Frenchman!"
"I understand he is the greatest male IT-er of the screen. Do you think his American success will w to his
Above: ten girls in the Paramount wardrobe department worked for two weeks on the Queen's beaded white satin train. Here are the workers on the job.
The royal lovers in the original operetta, "The Love Parade" — Jeanette MacDonald and the star, Maurice Chevalier.
head?" I asked.
"You forget, Bob, he was already a tremendous success in Europe. He gets a big salary here, but he also got one there. No, he is very sensible, and, like his countrymen, he is thrifty and saving. No foolishness, no, no. Americans think the French are gay spendthrifts. But they are not. Chevalier will take good care of his future.
"You'll laugh, Bob, when I tell you the greatest kick I get making this picture. It's correcting Chevalier's English! Yes, he comes to me and asks me how to pronounce words. Me! Isn't that amusing? You remember how you kidded me when I first came over. Remember, you printed a story about how I couldn't think of the word 'naked' and said I was just 'plain?' Well, now Chevalier asks me how to pronounce everything."
The little episode, however, is not really (Continued on page 103)