Playboy of Paris (1930)
1h 19m
Running Time
October 18, 1930Release Date
Playboy of Paris (1930)
1h 19m
Running Time
October 18, 1930Release Date
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Plot.
Yvonne, daughter of Philibert, a Paris cafe owner, is in love with dreamy, blundering Albert, a waiter, though he pays little attention to her. Philibert plans to marry his daughter to a wealthy Parisian, but upon learning that Albert is to come into a large inheritance, he conspires to place him under a longterm contract, confident that he willingly will pay a forfeit to break it.
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Cast & Crew.
Maurice Chevalier
Albert Loriflan
Frances Dee
Yvonne Phillbert
O. P. Heggie
Philibert
Eugene Pallette
Pierre Bourdin
Stuart Erwin
Paul Michel
Ludwig Berger
Director
Dorothy Christy
Mlle. Berengere
Tristan Bernard
Writer
Cecil Cunningham
Mlle. Hedwige
Percy Heath
Writer
Tyler Brooke
M. Cadeaux
Vincent Lawrence
Writer
Edmund Breese
General de Karodek
Sidney Bracey
Irate Customer (uncredited)
Henry W. Gerrard
Cinematographer
William B. Davidson
Monsieur Bannack (uncredited)
Sayre Dearing
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Frank Elliott
M. Jabert (uncredited)
Charles Giblyn
Gastonet (uncredited)
Olaf Hytten
Nightclub Waiter (uncredited)
Erin La Bissoniere
Jacqueline (uncredited)
Frederick Lee
Plouvier (uncredited)
Edward Lynch
Manager (uncredited)
Frank McLure
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
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Wiki.
Playboy of Paris is a 1930 American pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Ludwig Berger and starring Maurice Chevalier, Frances Dee (in her film debut), and O.P. Heggie. It was based on a 1911 play The Little Cafe by Tristan Bernard which had previously been adapted into a 1919 French silent film. Paramount produced a separate French-language version Le Petit Café, also starring Chevalier, which broke records for an opening-day attendance in Paris.The film introduced the song "My Ideal", composed by Richard A. Whiting and Newell Chase with lyrics by Leo Robin, which became a jazz standard.