They Had to See Paris (1929)
September 18, 1929
Comedy
1h 22m
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America’s greatest humorist now TALKS from the screen!
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?
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Frank Borzage
- Pike Peters Will Rogers
- Idy Peters Irene Rich
- Opal Peters Marguerite Churchill
- Marquis de Brissac Ivan Lebedeff
- Ross Peters Owen Davis Jr.
- Clark McCurdy Rex Bell
- Fifi Fifi D'Orsay
- Little Boy (uncredited) Sherwood Bailey
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Keywords
- paris, france
- family relationships
- mechanic
- american abroad
- showgirl
- pre-code
- american express
- suit of armor
- nightclub singer
- nobility
- art model
- oil field
- nouveau riche
- living in sin
- social climbing
- fortune hunter
- culture shock
- humorist
- society party
- homespun
- unsophisticated people