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Writers:
Jack Rose (screenplay)
Jack Rose (story)
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Release Date:
17 April 1953 (Denmark) more
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Tagline:
Sparkling as Champagne! The Year's Musical Eye-ful!
Plot:
Miss Ethel 'Dynamite' Jackson is a chorus girl who mistakingly receives an invitation from the State... more | add synopsis
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Classic Cameos: Count Basie, 'Blazing Saddles'
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One good dance number - Paris should have looked better! more (13 total)

Cast

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Doris Day ... Ethel S. 'Dynamite' Jackson

Ray Bolger ... S. 'Sam' Winthrop Putnam
Claude Dauphin ... Philippe Fouquet
Eve Miller ... Marcia Sherman
George Givot ... François
Paul Harvey ... Secretary Robert Sherman
Herbert Farjeon ... Joshua Stevens
Wilson Millar ... Sinclair Wilson
Raymond Largay ... Joseph Welmar
John Alvin ... Tracy
Jack Lomas ... Cab Driver
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Runtime:
94 min
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Color (Technicolor)
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Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)

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One good dance number - Paris should have looked better!, 4 December 1998
Author: William David Simmons (wdbauer@aol.com) from Newport, Rhode Island

First off, I am a huge Doris fan and I thought this movie was not one of her best (her own autobiography said she wanted someone different for the choreography...but I thought that was the best part). Doris is always good but the movie might have looked better if we saw some of the real Paris and why not show off some of the fashions sung about and actually see real settings.

Ray Bolger was NOT Fred Astaire but he sure is energetic. There was no real spark between Ray and Doris (who is excellent in the "Rock the Boat" number in the Cruiseliner's kitchen).

I bought this inexpensively from Ken Cranes on Laserdisc and Doris looks terrific as always. From what I've read Ray had some trouble with the director who accused him of trying to upstage Doris on camera - as if that were ever possible.

My advice...rent TEA FOR TWO instead.

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