Paris (1929 film)

Paris is a 1929 American PreCode musical comedy, filmed with Technicolor sequences four of ten reels were originally photographed in Technicolor. Paris was the fourth color movie released by Warner Bros. the first three were The Desert Song, On with the Show and Gold Diggers of Broadway, all released in 1929. Song of the West was actually completed by June of 1929 but had its release delayed until March of 1930. The film was adapted from the Cole Porter Broadway musical of the same name. The musical was Porters first Broadway hit. No film elements of Paris are known to exist, although the complete soundtrack survives on Vitaphone disks.

Irene Bordoni is cast as Vivienne Rolland, a Parisian chorus girl in love with Massachusetts boy Andrew Sabbot Jason Robards Sr. Andrews snobbish mother Cora Louise Closser Hale tries to break up the romance. Jack Buchanan likewise makes his talkingpicture debut as Guy Pennell, the leading man in Viviennes revue.Warner Bros. paid the celebrated French music hall star and Broadway chanteuse Irene Bordoni 10,000 a week to star in this film, playing the role she had originated on Broadway, introducing the enduring Porter standard Lets Do It, Lets Fall in Love. While this film was being shot, the studio was in the process of completing their allstar revue The Show of Shows 1929, so they had Bordoni film a number for the revue. Their initial intention was to have Bordoni star in two musical features, but due to the poor boxoffice reception of Paris, they decided not to make any more films with her. ........

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