Cavalcade ★★★ 1933

Traces the lives of the British Marryot family from the death of Queen Victoria, through WWI, the Jazz Age, and the Depression. A wistful adaptation of the hit play by Noel Coward with its touching portrayal of one family trying to weather good times and bad together. 110m/B VHS . Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Herbert Mundin, Una O'Connor, Ursula Jeans, Beryl Mercer, Merle Tottenham, Frank Lawton, John Warburton, Margaret Lindsay, Billy Bevan; D: Frank Lloyd; C: Ernest Palmer. Oscars ’33: Director (Lloyd), Picture.

cavalcade †ride XVI; procession on horseback XVII. — F. cavalcade, earlier †-cate- It. cavalcata, f. cavalcare :- Rom. *caballicāre ride, f. L. caballus pack-horse, nag, in Rom. (VI) soldier's word for ‘horse’ (F. cheval, etc.), which, like Gr. kabállēs, is an alien word; see -ADE.

cav·al·cade / ˌkavəlˈkād/ • n. a formal procession of people walking, on horseback, or riding in vehicles.

Cavalcade

a procession of persons on horseback; a procession or parade of carriages.

Examples: cavalcade of carriages; of devils, 1709; of horsemen; of songs; of sewarry [Indian mounted troops], 1616.