April in Paris | |
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Title card from the trailer
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Directed by | David Butler |
Produced by | William Jacobs |
Written by | Jack Rose |
Starring |
Doris Day Ray Bolger Claude Dauphin Eve Miller George Givot Paul Harvey |
Music by |
Vernon Duke LeRoy Prinz |
Cinematography | Wilfred M. Cline |
Edited by | Irene Morra |
Distributed by | Warner Brothers |
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Running time
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94 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Box office | $2.75 million (US) |
April in Paris is a 1952 musical film starring Doris Day and Ray Bolger. It was directed by David Butler.
Winthrop Putnam is the Assistant Secretary to the Assistant to the Undersecretary of State, and was formerly Assistant Assistant Secretary to the Assistant to the Undersecretary of State. He sends an invitation to Ethel Barrymore to represent the American theatre at an art exposition in Paris. Instead, the invitation is received and accepted by Ethel "Dynamite" Jackson, an All-American Broadway chorus girl. Ethel and Winthrop meet on the way to Paris and fall in love. However, Winthrop is engaged to Marcia Sherman, daughter of his boss Secretary Robert Sherman. After a misunderstanding, Winthrop and Ethel ultimately end up together.