| The Last Time I Saw Paris | |
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| Directed by | Richard Brooks |
| Screenplay by | Julius J. Epstein Philip G. Epstein Richard Brooks |
| Based on | "Babylon Revisited" by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Produced by | Jack Cummings |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Joseph Ruttenberg |
| Edited by | John D. Dunning |
| Music by | Conrad Salinger |
Production companies | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Jeffy Productions |
| Distributed by | Loew's, Inc. |
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Running time | 117 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,960,000[1] |
| Box office | $4,940,000[1] |
The Last Time I Saw Paris is a 1954 American Technicolor film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.[2][3] It is loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "Babylon Revisited." It was directed by Richard Brooks, produced by Jack Cummings and filmed on locations in Paris and the MGM backlot. The screenplay was by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Richard Brooks.
The film starred Elizabeth Taylor and Van Johnson in his last role for MGM, with Walter Pidgeon, Donna Reed, Eva Gabor, Kurt Kasznar, George Dolenz, Sandy Descher, Odette, and Roger Moore in his Hollywood debut. The film's title song, by composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, was already a classic when the movie was made and inspired the movie's title. Although the song had already won an Oscar after its film debut in 1941's Lady Be Good, it is featured much more prominently in The Last Time I Saw Paris. It can be heard in many scenes either being sung by Odette or being played as an instrumental.
- ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
- ^ "The Last Time I Saw Paris". Variety. December 31, 1953. p. 6. Retrieved 2023-11-29.
- ^ Harrison's Reports film review; November 6, 1954, p. 178.