That Girl from Paris

That Girl from Paris
French poster
Directed byLeigh Jason
Screenplay byJane Murfin
Joseph Fields
Based onViennese Charmer
1928 story in Young's Magazine
by W. Carey Wonderly
Produced byPandro S. Berman
StarringLily Pons
Jack Oakie
Gene Raymond
CinematographyJ. Roy Hunt
Edited byWilliam Morgan
Music byNathaniel Shilkret
Production
company
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • December 31, 1936 (1936-12-31) (New York City)[1]
Running time
104 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$534,000[2]
Box office$1 million[2]

That Girl from Paris is a 1936 American musical comedy film directed by Leigh Jason and starring Lily Pons, Jack Oakie, and Gene Raymond.[3] The film made a profit of $101,000.[2] John O. Aalberg was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording.[4]

  1. ^ Frank Nugent (January 1, 1937). "The Screen In Review; That Girl from Paris". The New York Times. The final impudent gesture of the 1936 cinema is RKO Radio's tossing of Lily Pons to a swing band.
  2. ^ a b c Richard Jewel, 'RKO Film Grosses: 1931-1951', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 14 No 1, 1994 p56
  3. ^ Tracie Cooper (2012). "That Girl from Paris". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 4, 2012. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
  4. ^ "The 9th Academy Awards (1937) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved August 9, 2011.