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Maurice Chevalier was nominated for a 1930 Academy Award for "Best Actor in a Leading Role" for his performance in "The Big Pond" as well as his performance in "The Love Parade" (1929).
French version.
The French language version of "The Big Pond", which was filmed simultaneously with the English version, was called "La grande mare". The cast was:
- Maurice Chevalier as "Pierre Mirande"
- Claudette Colbert as "Barbara Billings"
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he played his first American role in "Innocents of Paris". In 1930, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his roles in "The Love Parade" (1929) and "The Big Pond" (1930), which secured his first big American hits, "You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me" and "Livin' in the Sunlight, Lovin' in the Moonlight".
In 1957, he appeared in "Love in the Afternoon", which was his first Hollywood