Loretta Young home movie: filming of The White Parade, 1934 [silent]

Genre: home movie

Description:

Behind-the-scenes footage of film star Loretta Young during the production of Fox Film's The White Parade (1934). The footage also includes appearances by director Irving Cummings, actors Joyce Compton, Frank Conroy and David Niven, and glimpses of the Fox studio backlot.

The story of student nurses, The White Parade "tells of the joys and sorrows, the professional ecstacies and the frustrations of the affections of Miss Loretta Young as she bravely treads the stern and selfless path of duty" (New York Times, 11/10/1934). The film was dedicated "to the memory of the immortal Florence Nightingale."

Footage from the Loretta Young home movie collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

Complete Record: Behind-the-scenes footage of film star Loretta Young during the production of Fox Film's The White Parade (1934). The footage also includes appearances by director Irving Cummings, actors Joyce Compton, Frank Conroy and David Niven, and glimpses of the Fox studio backlot. The story of student nurses, The White Parade "tells of the joys and sorrows, the professional ecstacies and the frustrations of the affections of Miss Loretta Young as she bravely treads the stern and selfless path of duty" (New York Times, 11/10/1934). The film was dedicated "to the memory of the immortal Florence Nightingale." Footage from the Loretta Young home movie collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive.