They Had to See Paris (1929)
1h 22m
Running Time
September 18, 1929Release Date
They Had to See Paris (1929)
1h 22m
Running Time
September 18, 1929Release Date
Network & Production Companies

Plot.
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?
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Cast & Crew.

Will Rogers
Pike Peters / Additional Dialogue

Irene Rich
Idy Peters

Marguerite Churchill
Opal Peters

Ivan Lebedeff
Marquis de Brissac

Owen Davis Jr.
Ross Peters

Rex Bell
Clark McCurdy

Fifi D'Orsay
Fifi

Sherwood Bailey
Little Boy (uncredited)

André Cheron
Valet (uncredited)

Marcelle Corday
Marquise De Brissac (uncredited)

Gregory Gaye
Prince Ordinsky (uncredited)

Edgar Kennedy
Ed Eggers (uncredited)

Robert P. Kerr
Tupper (uncredited)

Theodore Lodi
Grand Duke Mikhail (uncredited)

Marcia Manon
Miss Mason (uncredited)

Christiane Yves
Fleurie (uncredited)

Frank Borzage
Director

Homer Croy
Novel

William Fox
Executive Producer

George Lipschultz
Original Music Composer

Chester A. Lyons
Director of Photography

Al Brick
Director of Photography

Margaret Clancey
Editor

Harry Oliver
Set Decoration

Sophie Wachner
Costume Design

Lew Borzage
Assistant Director

George P. Costello
Sound

Barnard Steele
Production Manager

Wilbur Morse, Jr.
Additional Writing

Sonya Levien
Scenario Writer

Con Conrad
Songs

Archie Gottler
Songs
Media.



Details.
Release DateSeptember 18, 1929
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 22m
Content RatingNR
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
paris france
mechanic
oil field
family relationships
american abroad
showgirl
pre-code
american express
suit of armor
nightclub singer
nobility
art model
nouveau riche
living in sin
social climbing
fortune hunter
culture shock
humorist
society party
homespun
unsophisticated people
Wiki.
They Had to See Paris is a 1929 American sound (All-Talking) Pre-Code comedy film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Will Rogers, Irene Rich, and Marguerite Churchill. The screenplay concerns a wealthy American oil tycoon who travels to Paris with his family at his wife's request, despite the fact he hates the French.
Rogers starred in a similar film the following year, So This Is London with the location switched to London. Rogers and Rich reprised their roles in Down to Earth (1932) which depicts the return of the Peters family to Depression-hit America.
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