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The Last Time I Saw Paris

  • 19541954
  • ApprovedApproved
  • 1h 56m
IMDb RATING
6.2/10
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Elizabeth Taylor, Eva Gabor, Donna Reed, Van Johnson, and Walter Pidgeon in The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
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An American journalist returns to Paris - a city that gave him true love and deep grief.An American journalist returns to Paris - a city that gave him true love and deep grief.An American journalist returns to Paris - a city that gave him true love and deep grief.
IMDb RATING
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3.9K
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    • Richard Brooks
  • Writers
    • Julius J. Epstein(screenplay)
    • Philip G. Epstein(screenplay)
    • Richard Brooks(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Elizabeth Taylor
    • Van Johnson
    • Walter Pidgeon
    • Richard Brooks
  • Writers
    • Julius J. Epstein(screenplay)
    • Philip G. Epstein(screenplay)
    • Richard Brooks(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Elizabeth Taylor
    • Van Johnson
    • Walter Pidgeon
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    • 71User reviews
    • 10Critic reviews
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    Elizabeth Taylor in The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
    Donna Reed, Van Johnson, George Dolenz, and Walter Pidgeon in The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
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    Roger Moore and Van Johnson in The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
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    Elizabeth Taylor and Van Johnson in The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
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    Elizabeth Taylor
    Elizabeth Taylor
    • Helen Ellswirth
    Van Johnson
    Van Johnson
    • Charles Wills
    Walter Pidgeon
    Walter Pidgeon
    • James Ellswirth
    Donna Reed
    Donna Reed
    • Marion Ellswirth
    Eva Gabor
    Eva Gabor
    • Lorraine Quarl
    Kurt Kasznar
    Kurt Kasznar
    • Maurice
    George Dolenz
    George Dolenz
    • Claude Matine
    Roger Moore
    Roger Moore
    • Paul
    Sandy Descher
    Sandy Descher
    • Vicki
    Celia Lovsky
    Celia Lovsky
    • Mama
    Peter Leeds
    Peter Leeds
    • Barney
    John Doucette
    John Doucette
    • Campbell
    Odette Myrtil
    Odette Myrtil
    • Singer
    • (as Odette)
    John Farrow
    • English Officer
    Jacqueline Allen
    Jacqueline Allen
    • Background Singer
    • (uncredited)
    Don Anderson
    Don Anderson
    • Party Guest
    • (uncredited)
    Max Barwyn
    Max Barwyn
    • German Man
    • (uncredited)
    Herman Belmonte
    • Cafe Patron
    • (uncredited)
      • Richard Brooks
    • Writers
      • Julius J. Epstein(screenplay)
      • Philip G. Epstein(screenplay)
      • Richard Brooks(screenplay)
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    • Trivia
      Lester Cowan had previously tried to make this movie in the 1940s, with Cary Grant and Shirley Temple as father and daughter. He originally planned to co-produce with his partner Mary Pickford.
    • Goofs
      In the title screen at the beginning of the the movie it says "COPYRIGHT MCMXLIV IN U.S.A.", which in roman numbers is 1944, but the film was released in 1954, in roman numbers would be MCMLIV.
    • Quotes

      Helen Ellswirth: Do you mind if Paul takes me home?

      Charles Wills: Paul who?

      Helen Ellswirth: Paul anybody. Party like this, must be at least 6 or 7 Pauls

    • Connections
      Edited into The Extraordinary Seaman (1969)
    • Soundtracks
      The Last Time I Saw Paris
      Music by Jerome Kern

      Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II

      Sung by Odette Myrtil

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    6/10
    The Last Time, the billing was reversed
    The Last Time I Saw Paris was the second of two films that Elizabeth Taylor and Van Johnson co-starred. What a difference in four years from The Big Hangover where Johnson was billed ahead of Taylor.

    Which is odd in this case because the film is really about Johnson. It's based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's story, Babylon Revisited which takes place in Paris after World War I. MGM apparently thinking that the audience would be more amenable to a story taking place after World War II, so the plot was updated for France of the Fourth Republic.

    It doesn't quite work though, France of that era was a whole lot different than France of the Roaring Twenties. They partied then also when Paris was liberated and the Germans chased out of their country, but on the whole it was a time for more sober reflection of what France's role in the post war world would be. The Roaring Twenties that Fitzgerald wrote about were not the Roaring Forties.

    Van Johnson is a GI who comes upon a family of expatriates who lived in Paris right through the occupation. Walter Pidgeon and his two daughters, Donna Reed and Elizabeth Taylor. They both are interested, but Johnson has eyes only for Liz. And the film is their story.

    It's a tragic story, you can see Fitzgerald himself in Van Johnson, the would be writer who becomes a dissolute playboy. Partying right along with him is Taylor who is the image of Fitzgerald's party girl wife Zelda.

    MGM did this one on the cheap. There are some shots of Paris, but on the whole the Paris you see is the Paris that was created by the studio for their classic musical An American in Paris. View the films side by side and you'll have no doubt.

    Look for Eva Gabor as a divorcée who likes Johnson and a very young Roger Moore as a tennis pro who'd like to be a kept man by Taylor.

    It's a nice story, but it could have been a whole lot better if MGM had actually shot the film in Paris completely and really set in the period it was written.
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      • April 3, 1955 (Japan)
      • United States
      • English
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      • Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France
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      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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    • 1 hour 56 minutes

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