The Last Time I Saw Paris Best Version Romance Elizabeth Taylor Van Johnson.
Reporter Charles Wills (Van Johnson), in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth (Elizabeth Taylor) following a brief flirtation with her sister, Marion (Donna Reed). After he and Helen marry, Charles pursues his novelistic ambition while supporting his new bride with a deadening job at a newspaper wire service. But when an old investment suddenly makes the family wealthy, their marriage begins to unravel -- until a sudden tragedy changes everything.
1954 Hollywood Classic
Director: Richard Brooks (multiple Oscar Nominee and Academy Award Winner--Elmer Gantry)
Stars: Elizabeth Taylor (Academy Award Winner-- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Butterfield 8), Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Donna Reed (Academy Award Winner--From Here to Eternity), Eva Gabor, Kurt Kasznar, George Dolenz, Sandy Descher, Odette, Roger Moore
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.
Cast
Elizabeth Taylor as Helen Ellswirth
Van Johnson as Charles Wills
Walter Pidgeon as James Ellswirth
Donna Reed as Marion Ellswirth
Eva Gabor as Lorraine Quarl
Kurt Kasznar as Maurice
George Dolenz as Claude Matine
Roger Moore as Paul
Sandy Descher as Vicki
Celia Lovsky as Mama
Peter Leeds as Barney
John Doucette as Campbell
Odette Myrtil as Singer
Time Out Film Guide said "Despite a very corny script from Julius and Philip Epstein which borrows clichés from Casablanca and countless "American in Paris" yarns, this remains an enjoyable (if heavy-handed) melodrama....Pidgeon steals the show as ... a penniless chancer who still manages to live the good life."
1954 Hollywood Classic
Director: Richard Brooks (multiple Oscar Nominee and Academy Award Winner--Elmer Gantry)
Stars: Elizabeth Taylor (Academy Award Winner-- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Butterfield 8), Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Donna Reed (Academy Award Winner--From Here to Eternity), Eva Gabor, Kurt Kasznar, George Dolenz, Sandy Descher, Odette, Roger Moore
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.
Cast
Elizabeth Taylor as Helen Ellswirth
Van Johnson as Charles Wills
Walter Pidgeon as James Ellswirth
Donna Reed as Marion Ellswirth
Eva Gabor as Lorraine Quarl
Kurt Kasznar as Maurice
George Dolenz as Claude Matine
Roger Moore as Paul
Sandy Descher as Vicki
Celia Lovsky as Mama
Peter Leeds as Barney
John Doucette as Campbell
Odette Myrtil as Singer
Time Out Film Guide said "Despite a very corny script from Julius and Philip Epstein which borrows clichés from Casablanca and countless "American in Paris" yarns, this remains an enjoyable (if heavy-handed) melodrama....Pidgeon steals the show as ... a penniless chancer who still manages to live the good life."
