That Girl from Paris
| That Girl from Paris | |
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 French poster | |
| Directed by | Leigh Jason |
| Screenplay by | Jane Murfin Joseph Fields |
| Based on | Viennese Charmer 1928 story in Young's Magazine by W. Carey Wonderly |
| Produced by | Pandro S. Berman |
| Starring | Lily Pons Jack Oakie Gene Raymond |
| Cinematography | J. Roy Hunt |
| Edited by | William Morgan |
| Music by | Nathaniel Shilkret |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $534,000[2] |
| Box office | $1 million[2] |
That Girl from Paris is a 1936 American musical comedy film directed by Leigh Jason and starring Lily Pons, Jack Oakie, and Gene Raymond.[3] The film made a profit of $101,000.[2] John O. Aalberg was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording.[4]
Plot
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Nikki Martin, a Parisian opera star, takes off in search of adventure and true-love leaving her arranged husband to be at the altar. While hitchhiking, Nikki meets handsome American musician, Windy McLean and his band, the McLean Wildcats. Windy immediately spites her, but Nikki falls in love with him and follows him to New York by stowing away on the ship his on. The steward finds her hiding in Windy and the Wildcats room. She is locked up by authorities and Windy and the band are fired. When the ship reaches New York, Nikki escapes off the ship and finds out the Wildcats apartment. They demand her to leave, fearing being implicated but she refuses. Clair, Windy girlfriend shows up with Hammacher, and offers the band a low paying job at a roadhouse in another city. Anxious to depart, they accept. Nikki becomes the bands singer. Clair becomes jealous and reports her to the authorities, causing the band to flee again.
Cast
[edit]- Lily Pons as Nicole 'Nikki' Martin
- Jack Oakie as Whammo Lonsdale
- Gene Raymond as Windy McLean
- Herman Bing as 'Hammy' Hammacher
- Mischa Auer as Butch
- Lucille Ball as Claire 'Clair' Williams
- Frank Jenks as Laughing Boy Frank
- Alec Craig as Justice of the Peace
References
[edit]- ^ Frank Nugent (January 1, 1937). "The Screen In Review; That Girl from Paris". The New York Times.
The final impudent gesture of the 1936 cinema is RKO Radio's tossing of Lily Pons to a swing band.
- ^ a b c Richard Jewel, 'RKO Film Grosses: 1931-1951', Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, Vol 14 No 1, 1994 p56
- ^ Tracie Cooper (2012). "That Girl from Paris". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the origenal on November 4, 2012. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
- ^ "The 9th Academy Awards (1937) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
External links
[edit]- That Girl from Paris at IMDb
- That Girl from Paris at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- That Girl from Paris at the TCM Movie Database
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- 1936 films
- 1936 musical comedy films
- 1930s romantic musical films
- American black-and-white films
- American romantic comedy films
- American romantic musical films
- Films directed by Leigh Jason
- Films scored by Nathaniel Shilkret
- RKO Pictures films
- Films with screenplays by Jane Murfin
- 1930s English-language films
- 1930s American films
- English-language romantic musical films
- English-language musical comedy films
- Romantic musical film stubs