Paris (1929 film)

Infobox Film
name = Paris (1929)


producer = Ned Marin
director = Clarence G. Badger
writer = Martin Brown
E. Ray Goetz
Hope Loring
starring = Irene Bordoni
Jack Buchanan
Louise Closser Hale
Jason Robards Sr.
Zasu Pitts
music = Cole Porter, Edward Ward
cinematography = Sol Polito "(Technicolor)"
editing = Edward Schroeder
distributor = First National Pictures: A Subsidiary of Warner Bros.
released = November 7, 1929
runtime = 97 Minutes
language = English
country = USA
imdb_id = 0020257|

"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.

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.

ongs

*"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"

Preservation

No film elements are known to exist. The complete soundtrack survives on Vitaphone disks.