Paris (1929 film)
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| Paris (1929) | |
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| Directed by | Clarence G. Badger |
| Produced by | Ned Marin |
| Written by | Martin Brown E. Ray Goetz Hope Loring |
| Starring | Irene Bordoni Jack Buchanan Louise Closser Hale Jason Robards Sr. Zasu Pitts |
| Music by | Cole Porter, Edward Ward |
| Cinematography | Sol Polito (Technicolor) |
| Editing by | Edward Schroeder |
| Distributed by | First National Pictures: A Subsidiary of Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | November 7, 1929 |
| Running time | 97 Minutes |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
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Paris (1929) is an All-Talking musical comedy film with Technicolor sequences. Four reels of this ten reel film were originally photographed in Technicolor. The film Paris was adapted from the Cole Porter Broadway musical of the same name.
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[edit] Synopsis
Irene Bordoni is cast as Vivienne Rolland, a Parisian chorus girl in love with Massachusetts boy Andrew Sabbot (Jason Robards Sr.) Andrew's snobbish mother Cora (Louise Closser Hale) tries to break up the romance. Jack Buchanan plays the part of Guy Pennell, the leading man in Vivienne's revue.
[edit] Trivia
- Warner Bros. paid Irene Bordoni $10,000 a week to produce this film.
- While "Paris" was being filmed, the Warner. Bros were in the process of completing their all-star revue The Show of Shows (1929). Consequently, they had Irene Bordoni film a number for this feature while she was working on "Paris."
- Warner Bros. initially had the intention of starring Irene Bordoni in two musical features. Due to the poor box-office reception of "Paris" they decided not to make any more films with her.
[edit] Songs
- "My Lover"
- "Paris"
- "Somebody Mighty Like You"
- "An' Furthermore"
- "Wob-a-ly Walk"
- "Don't Look at Me That Way"
- "Crystal Girl"
- "I'm a Little Negative Looking for a Positive"
- "I Wonder What is Really on his Mind"
- "Miss Wonderful"
- "Among My Souvenirs"
- "The Land of Going to Be"
[edit] Preservation
No film elements are known to exist. The complete soundtrack survives on Vitaphone disks.
