Two Tickets to Paris

Two Tickets to Paris (1962)

The Wildest Wonder-Cruise Ever!

In this musical, fairly light movie, two young people, Joey and Piper are in love. They embark on a cruise to Paris to get married, with the acerbic but kind Aggie as a chaperon. Along the way, their sweet innocent romance runs into trouble when Coco, a french dancer uses Joey to make her straying boyfriend jealous.

Date of release
1962-11-28
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Comedy, Music
Director
Greg Garrison

Casting

Interesting facts

Two Tickets to Paris is a 1962 American musical comedy film directed by Greg Garrison and starring Joey Dee and the Starliters, Gary Crosby and Kay Medford.

Production

The film was made independently by Harry Romm, who had produced Hey, Let's Twist (1961). He used the same director of that film, Greg Garrison, and cast Joey Dee, who was known for the Peppermint Twist. It was originally going to be called Viva La Twist but this was changed.

The cast included Gary Crosby who had been in many film musicals such as Mardi Gras, and Kay Medford, who had been in Bye Bye Birdie on stage. The film was shot in May 1962 at a studio in New York, the Production Center on 221 West Street, with some filming about a liner and the RoundTable nightclub. Filming finished by 8 June.

The Hollywood studio Columbia Pictures agreed to distribute the film.

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