The Big Star Parade

{{Short description|1954 film}} {{Infobox film |name = The Big Star Parade |image = The Big Star Parade.jpg |caption = German film poster |native_name = {{Infobox name module|de|Die große Starparade}} |director = [[Paul Martin (director)|Paul Martin]] |producer = [[Artur Brauner]]<br>Léon Canel |writer = [[Ernst Neubach]]<br>Franz Tanzler |starring = [[Adrian Hoven]]<br>[[Renate Holm]]<br>[[Gunther Philipp]] |music = [[Michael Jary]] |cinematography = [[Albert Benitz]] |editing = [[Martha Dübber]] |studio = [[CCC Film]] |distributor = [[Gloria Film]] |released = {{Film date|1954|9|3|df=yes}} |runtime = 98 minutes |country = West Germany |language = German }} '''''The Big Star Parade''''' (German: '''''Die große Starparade''''') is a 1954 West German [[Musical film|musical]] [[comedy film]] directed by [[Paul Martin (director)|Paul Martin]] and starring [[Adrian Hoven]], [[Renate Holm]] and [[Gunther Philipp]].<ref>{{cite book|editor-first1=Hans-Michael|editor-last1=Bock|editor-link1=Hans-Michael Bock|editor-first2=Tim|editor-last2=Bergfelder|title=The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema|publisher=[[Berghahn Books]]|page=225|year=2009|location=New York|isbn=978-1-57181-655-9}}</ref>

The film's sets were designed by the [[art director]] [[Hans Jürgen Kiebach]] and [[Gabriel Pellon]]. It was shot at the [[Spandau Studios]] and [[location shooting|on location]] in [[Bavaria]] and [[Hamburg]].

==Cast== {{Cast listing| *[[Adrian Hoven]] as Peter Hofer *[[Renate Holm]] as Renate Winkelmann *[[Gunther Philipp]] as Hannes Schöpf *[[Bully Buhlan]] as himself *[[Peter W. Staub]] as Paul Grüter *[[Hans Olden]] as Lukas Pichler *[[Elfie Pertramer]] as Kathi Gschwandtner *[[Fritz Imhoff]] as Max Winkelmann *[[Aribert Wäscher]] as director of broadcasting *Mimi Stelzer as Bäuerin Gschwandtner *Ilja Glusgal as himself *[[Jo Herbst]] as Neppke *[[Michael Jary]] as himself *[[Katherine Dunham]] as herself *[[Peter Alexander (Austrian performer)|Peter Alexander]] as himself *Nocha Doina as herself *[[Kurt Edelhagen]] as himself *[[Cornelia Froboess]] as herself *Peter Hinnen as himself *Will Höhne as himself *Macky Kaspar as himself *[[Rolf Kühn]] as himself *[[Evelyn Künneke]] as herself *[[Liselotte Malkowsky]] as herself *Sunny Lang as himself *[[Hazy Osterwald]] as themselves *Die Drei Peheiros as themselves *Die Ping Pong's as themselves *Das Raisner Trio as themselves *Dorle Rath as herself *Geschwister Schmid as themselves *[[Fritz Schulz-Reichel]] as himself *Sunshine Quartett as themselves *[[Caterina Valente]] as herself *Albert Vossen as himself *[[Horst Winter]] as himself *[[Sonja Ziemann]] as Sonja Ziemann *[[Rudolf Prack]] as himself *[[Winnie Markus]] as herself *[[Hannelore Bollmann]] as herself }}

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== *Hannah Durkin. ''Josephine Baker and Katherine Dunham: Dances in Literature and Cinema''. University of Illinois Press, 2019.

==External links== *{{IMDb title|0047054}}

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