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
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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
Irene Rich
Mrs. Idy Peters
Owen Davis Jr.
Ross Peters
Marguerite Churchill
Opal Peters
Rex Bell
Clark McCurdy
Frank Borzage
Director
Ivan Lebedeff
Marquis de Brissac
Owen Davis
Writer
Sherwood Bailey
Little boy
Homer Croy
Writer
André Cheron
Valet
Sonya Levien
Writer
Chester A. Lyons
Cinematographer
Marcelle Corday
Marquise De Brissac
Fifi D'Orsay
Fifi
Gregory Gaye
Prince Ordinsky
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They Had to See Paris is a 1929 American 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.