They Had to See Paris (1929)
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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?
- Date of release
- 1929-09-18
- TMDB
- 6.4 / 10 (8)
- Runtime
- 1h 22m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Director
- Frank Borzage
Casting
- Will Rogers — Pike Peters
- Irene Rich — Idy Peters
- Marguerite Churchill — Opal Peters
- Ivan Lebedeff — Marquis de Brissac
- Owen Davis Jr. — Ross Peters
- Rex Bell — Clark McCurdy
- Fifi D'Orsay — Fifi
- Sherwood Bailey — Little Boy (uncredited)
- André Cheron — Valet (uncredited)
- Marcelle Corday — Marquise De Brissac (uncredited)
- Gregory Gaye — Prince Ordinsky (uncredited)
- Edgar Kennedy — Ed Eggers (uncredited)
Interesting facts
They Had to See Paris is a 1929 American sound (All-Talking) Pre-Code comedy film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Will Rogers, Irene Rich, and Marguerite Churchill. The screenplay concerns a wealthy American oil tycoon who travels to Paris with his family at his wife's request, despite the fact he hates the French.
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