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Director:
David Butler
Writers:
Jack Rose (screenplay)
Jack Rose (story)
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Release Date:
17 April 1953 (Denmark) more
Genre:
Comedy | Musical | Romance more
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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NewsDesk:
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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
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Aladdin ... Violinist in 'Rock the Boat Tonight' number (uncredited)
Betty Arlen ... Young Woman (uncredited)
Mary Benoit ... Secretary (uncredited)
Andrew Berner ... Jacques Fourquet (uncredited)
Eugene Borden ... Master Chef (uncredited)
Don Brodie ... Employee (uncredited)
Ann Cameron ... Minor Role (uncredited)
Dee Carroll ... Secretary (uncredited)
Mildred Carroll ... Chorine (uncredited)
Jack Chefe ... Waiter (uncredited)
Gabriel Conrad ... First Officer (uncredited)
Robert Scott Correll ... Charles Fourquet (uncredited)
Lorraine Crawford ... Chorine (uncredited)
Tony Dante ... Philippe's Driver (uncredited)
Henry Dar Boggia ... Putnam's Driver (uncredited)
George Davis ... Waiter with Bicarbonate of Soda (uncredited)
Jean De Briac ... French Chairman at Festival of the Arts (uncredited)
Guy De Vestel ... French Delegate (uncredited)
Juan Duval ... Waiter (uncredited)
Franklyn Farnum ... Ship Passenger (uncredited)
Bess Flowers ... Disembarking Airline Passenger / Ship's Passenger / Ship Passenger (uncredited)
Don Gray ... Turkish Delegate (uncredited)
John Hedloe ... Reporter (uncredited)
Kenner G. Kemp ... Airplane Pilot (uncredited)
Donald Kerr ... Usher at Knickerbocker Theatre / Airplane Pilot (uncredited)
Donna King ... Chorine (uncredited)
Mike Lally ... Minor Role (uncredited)
Jarma Lewis ... Chorine (uncredited)
Maurice Marsac ... M. Dionne - France-America Lines Representative (uncredited)
Charles Marsh ... Reporter (uncredited)
Alphonse Martell ... Waiter (uncredited)
Shepard Menken ... Sidewalk Cafe Waiter (uncredited)
Harold Miller ... Ship Passenger Diner (uncredited)
Patricia Mitchell ... Marie Fourquet (uncredited)
Leo Mostovoy ... Waiter (uncredited)
Charles Murray Jr. ... Reporter (uncredited)
William H. O'Brien ... Usher at the Festival of the Arts (uncredited)
Nestor Paiva ... Ship's Captain (uncredited)
Veronica Pataky ... Mme. Mimi Fouquet (uncredited)
Joe Ploski ... Ship Cook (uncredited)
Joey Ray ... Reporter (uncredited)
Jill Richards ... Secretary (uncredited)
Delfina Salazar ... Yvonne Fourquet (uncredited)
Cosmo Sardo ... Ship Waiter (uncredited)
Sharon Saunders ... Chorine (uncredited)
Rolfe Sedan ... Waiter (uncredited)
André Siméon ... Waiter (uncredited)
Bert Stevens ... Man at the Festival of the Arts (uncredited)
Shirley Tegge ... Chorine (uncredited)
Teresa Tudor ... Mme. Dionne (uncredited)
Harry Tyler ... Stage Doorman (uncredited)
Tommy Walker ... Reporter (uncredited)
Patsy Weil ... Jeanne Fourquet (uncredited)
Frances Zucco ... Secretary (uncredited)
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Directed by
David Butler 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Jack Rose  screenplay
Jack Rose  story "Girl from Paris"
Melville Shavelson  screenplay
Melville Shavelson  story "Girl from Paris"

Produced by
William Jacobs .... producer
 
Cinematography by
Wilfred M. Cline 
 
Film Editing by
Irene Morra 
 
Art Direction by
Leo K. Kuter 
 
Set Decoration by
Lyle B. Reifsnider 
 
Costume Design by
Leah Rhodes 
 
Makeup Department
Gordon Bau .... makeup artist
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Philip Quinn .... assistant director
 
Sound Department
Charles David Forrest .... sound
C.A. Riggs .... sound
 
Music Department
Frank Comstock .... orchestrator
Vernon Duke .... original song music
Ray Heindorf .... musical director
Norman Luboff .... music arranger: vocal arrangements
LeRoy Prinz .... musical numbers
Ray Heindorf .... composer: incidental music (uncredited)
Howard Jackson .... composer: incidental music (uncredited)
 
Other crew
Mitchell Kovaleski .... technicolor color consultant (as Mitchell G. Kovaleski)
Donald Saddler .... choreographer (uncredited)
 

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Additional Details

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Runtime:
94 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | French
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
Finland:S | Sweden:Btl | USA:Unrated | West Germany:12
Filming Locations:
Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
Company:
Warner Bros. Pictures more

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
S. Winthrop Putnam: Do you know what my title is? Assistant Secretary to the Assistant to the Undersecretary of State. It's taken me ten years to get this far. If this falls through I'll be right back where I started: Assistant Assistant Secretary to the Assistant to the Undersecretary of State. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Mary Tyler Moore: Divorce Isn't Everything (#1.4)" (1970) more
Soundtrack:
The Place You Hold in My Heart more

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8 out of 9 people found the following comment useful.
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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