They Had to See Paris

1929

82 min

5.7

Ends at

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?

Budget

$0

Genre

Comedy

Director

Frank Borzage

Country

United States of America

Cast & Crew

Will Rogers

Irene Rich

Marguerite Churchill

Ivan Lebedeff

Owen Davis Jr.

Rex Bell

Fifi D'Orsay

Sherwood Bailey

André Cheron

Marcelle Corday

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They Had to See Paris

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?

  • Will Rogers

  • Irene Rich

  • Marguerite Churchill

  • Ivan Lebedeff

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