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April in Paris

  • 19521952
  • UnratedUnrated
  • 1h 40m
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5.9/10
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April in Paris (1952)
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A series of misunderstandings leads to a chorus girl traveling to Paris to represent the American theater, where she falls in love with a befuddled bureaucrat.A series of misunderstandings leads to a chorus girl traveling to Paris to represent the American theater, where she falls in love with a befuddled bureaucrat.A series of misunderstandings leads to a chorus girl traveling to Paris to represent the American theater, where she falls in love with a befuddled bureaucrat.
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1.4K
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    • David Butler
    • Jack Rose(story "Girl from Paris")
    • Melville Shavelson(story "Girl from Paris")
  • Stars
    • Doris Day
    • Ray Bolger
    • Claude Dauphin
    • David Butler
    • Jack Rose(story "Girl from Paris")
    • Melville Shavelson(story "Girl from Paris")
  • Stars
    • Doris Day
    • Ray Bolger
    • Claude Dauphin
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 33User reviews
    • 9Critic reviews
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    April in Paris (1952)
    Doris Day in Lullaby of Broadway (1951)
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    Doris Day and Ray Bolger in April in Paris (1952)
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    Doris Day in April in Paris (1952)
    Doris Day in April in Paris (1952)
    April in Paris (1952)
    Doris Day and Ray Bolger in April in Paris (1952)
    Doris Day in April in Paris (1952)
    Doris Day, Ray Bolger, and Claude Dauphin in April in Paris (1952)

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    Doris Day
    Doris Day
    • Ethel S. 'Dynamite' Jackson
    Ray Bolger
    Ray Bolger
    • S. 'Sam' Winthrop Putnam
    Claude Dauphin
    Claude Dauphin
    • Philippe Fouquet
    Eve Miller
    Eve Miller
    • Marcia Sherman
    George Givot
    George Givot
    • François
    Paul Harvey
    Paul Harvey
    • Secretary Robert Sherman
    Herbert Farjeon
    • Joshua Stevens
    Wilson Millar
    • Sinclair Wilson
    Raymond Largay
    • Joseph Welmar
    John Alvin
    John Alvin
    • Tracy
    Jack Lomas
    • Cab Driver
    Aladdin
    • Violinist - 'Rock the Boat Tonight' number
    • (uncredited)
    Leon Alton
    Leon Alton
    • Stagehand
    • (uncredited)
    Betty Arlen
    • Young Woman
    • (uncredited)
    Frank Baker
    Frank Baker
    • Delegate
    • (uncredited)
    Mary Bayless
    • Ship Passenger
    • (uncredited)
    Mary Benoit
    Mary Benoit
    • Secretary
    • (uncredited)
    Andrew Berner
    • Jacques Fouquet
    • (uncredited)
      • David Butler
      • Jack Rose(story "Girl from Paris")
      • Melville Shavelson(story "Girl from Paris")
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    • Trivia
      Doris Day wrote in her autobiography that she only encountered trouble or tension on two of her Warner Bros. movies: 'April in Paris' and Young at Heart (1954). Regarding this film, she claimed that leading man Ray Bolger and director David Butler clashed early on, with Butler accusing Bolger of trying to steal scenes away from Day. She also mentioned that being a relative newcomer to movies, she was unaware of Bolger's tricks and managed to stay out of the line of fire.
    • Goofs
      Ray Bolger supposedly flies to New York when he realizes the invitation mixup, but the plane is shown flying over the Wrigley Building in Chicago.
    • Quotes

      Ethel S. 'Dynamite' Jackson: It's no use, Philippe. I'm in love with the man I married. And he's not even my husband!

      Philippe Fouquet: Even in Paris, that's an unusual situation.

    • Connections
      Featured in IMDb Originals: Doris Day: In Memoriam (2019)
    • Soundtracks
      April in Paris
      (1932)

      Music by Vernon Duke

      Lyrics by E.Y. Harburg

      Sung by Doris Day

      Sung by an off-screen chorus during the opening credits

      Reprised by Claude Dauphin

    User reviews33

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    Pleasant but forgettable
    This is a pleasant but basically forgettable musical from a decade that produced far better. The performers are all talented and have done much better elsewhere; they are not to blame. The script is basically boring, and the title very misleading: only the last 15 minutes or so of the movie takes place in Paris. And when it does, it's all painted backdrops. We never really get to Paris.

    What I found interesting was the post-WW II notion that Americans are very up-tight, especially sexually, and that a trip to Paris could do wonders to loosen them up. (This idea is well presented in the great 1948 Billy Wilder movie, "A Foreign Affair," though there Paris is not the answer, it's just getting out of the American mindset and encountering Europeans.) One of the bright spots of the movie is Doris Day's dance-and-sing number on the ship, "I'm gonna ring the bell tonight," when she encounters the "joie de vivre" of the French crew on the ocean liner and starts to loosen up herself.

    For what it's worth, the setting for this number seems to have been taken from a Jane Powell movie from four years before, *Luxury Liner*. Jane's character does an interesting - but not as interesting - number in the kitchen of the title's luxury liner with the kitchen staff early in the movie.

    Later, there is a decent number with Day and the Frenchman, Philippe Fouquet (Claude Dauphin, playing the role that Georges Guétary had played so much better the year before in "An American in Paris") in which the appeal and disappointments of Paris are sketched out.

    In sum, this is a pretty forgettable movie: forgettable music, certainly, forgettable dialog mostly (though there are a few nasty lines between Day and her female rival), unremarkable story - you never believe there is any real feeling between Ray Bolger and Day - forgettable if energetic dancing. Coming a year after "An American in Paris" - and no doubt meant to play off the success of that movie - this is pretty much a letdown. Even the scenes of Paris are fake.
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    • Jul 16, 2011

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    • Release date
      • April 17, 1953 (Denmark)
      • United States
      • English
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Warner Bros.
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    • 1 hour 40 minutes

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