This article is about the film. For the song, see The Last Time I Saw Paris (song). For the book, see Elliot Paul.
The Last Time I Saw Paris
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Richard Brooks
Screenplay by
Julius J. Epstein Philip G. Epstein Richard Brooks
Based on
"Babylon Revisited" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Produced by
Jack Cummings
Starring
Elizabeth Taylor
Van Johnson
Walter Pidgeon
Donna Reed
Eva Gabor
Kurt Kasznar
Roger Moore
Cinematography
Joseph Ruttenberg
Edited by
John D. Dunning
Music by
Conrad Salinger
Production companies
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Jeffy Productions
Distributed by
Loew's, Inc.
Release date
November 18, 1954 (1954-11-18)
Running time
117 minutes
Country
United States
Language
English
Budget
$1,960,000[1]
Box office
$4,940,000[1]
The Last Time I Saw Paris is a 1954 American Technicolor film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.[2][3] It is loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "Babylon Revisited." It was directed by Richard Brooks, produced by Jack Cummings and filmed on locations in Paris and the MGM backlot. The screenplay was by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Richard Brooks.
The film starred 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, by composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, was already a classic when the movie was made and inspired the movie's title. Although the song had already won an Oscar after its film debut in 1941's Lady Be Good, it is featured much more prominently in The Last Time I Saw Paris. It can be heard in many scenes either being sung by Odette or being played as an instrumental.
The Last Time I Saw Paris
^ abThe Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study.
^"The Last Time I Saw Paris". Variety. December 31, 1953. p. 6. Retrieved 2023-11-29.
^Harrison's Reports film review; November 6, 1954, p. 178.
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