The Last Time I Saw Paris
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| Directed by | Richard Brooks |
| Produced by | Jack Cummings |
| Screenplay by |
Julius J. Epstein Philip G. Epstein Richard Brooks |
| Based on |
Babylon Revisited 1931 story The Saturday Evening Post by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Starring |
Elizabeth Taylor Van Johnson Walter Pidgeon Donna Reed |
| Music by | Conrad Salinger |
| Cinematography | Joseph Ruttenberg |
| Edited by | John D. Dunning |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time
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116 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,960,000 |
| Box office | $4,940,000 |
For the 1942 book, see Elliot Paul.
The Last Time I Saw Paris is a 1954 romantic drama made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It is loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "Babylon Revisited." It was directed by Richard Brooks, produced by Jack Cummings and filmed on locations in Paris and the MGM backlot. The screenplay was by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Richard Brooks.
The film starred Elizabeth Taylor and Van Johnson in his last role for MGM, with Walter Pidgeon, Donna Reed, Eva Gabor, Kurt Kasznar, George Dolenz, Sandy Descher, Odette, and (a then-unknown) Roger Moore in his Hollywood debut. The film's title song, by composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, was already a classic when the movie was made and inspired the movie's title. Though the song had already won an Oscar after its film debut in 1941's Lady Be Good, it is featured much more prominently in The Last Time I Saw Paris. It can be heard in many scenes, either being sung by Odette or being played as an instrumental.
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