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They Had to See Paris (1929)

They Had to See Paris (1929)

Comedy

America’s greatest humorist now TALKS from the screen!

Release Date: 1929, September 18
Directors: Frank Borzage
Countries: United States of America
Production: Fox Film Corporation, Fox Film Corporation
Cast: Gregory Gaye, Will Rogers, Ivan Lebedeff, André Cheron, Owen Davis Jr., Rex Bell, Irene Rich, Fifi D'Orsay, Marguerite Churchill, Edgar Kennedy, Marcelle Corday, Sherwood Bailey

Overview:

Oklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. His wife Idy, hitherto content, decides the family must go to Paris to get "culture" and meet "the right kind of people." Pike and his grown son and daughter soon have flirtatious French admirers; Idy rents a chateau from an impoverished aristocrat; while Pike responds to each new development with homespun wit. In the inevitable clash, will pretentiousness and sophistication or common sense triumph?

Keywords:

mechanic family relationships paris, france oil field american abroad nobility culture shock american express social climbing suit of armor pre-code showgirl nightclub singer humorist nouveau riche art model unsophisticated people fortune hunter society party homespun living in sin