The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)

Directed by

Richard Brooks

Genre

drama film, comedy film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 56m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 62 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An American writer returns to Paris and remembers his whirlwind romance with a beautiful socialite. Their love story is complicated by his drinking and the aftermath of World War II.

romanticnostalgicbittersweetmelancholicdramaticyearningclassictender

What happens

The Last Time I Saw Paris is a 1954 American romantic drama film directed by Richard Brooks and produced by Jack Cummings for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The screenplay was written by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Brooks, loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1930 short story "Babylon Revisited." The film stars Elizabeth Taylor and Van Johnson in his last role for MGM, with Walter Pidgeon, Donna Reed, Eva Gabor, Kurt Kasznar, George Dolenz, Sandy Descher, Odette and Roger Moore in his Hollywood debut. The film's title song, written by composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, was already a classic and inspired the film's title. Although the song had already won an Academy Award for Best Original Song after its film debut in 1941's Lady Be Good, it is featured more prominently in The Last Time I Saw Paris. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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