They Had to See Paris

1929 film

September 18, 1929 (1929-09-18)

Running time

95 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

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.^[1]^[2]

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.^{[citation needed]}

Cast

Will Rogers as Pike Peters
Irene Rich as Mrs. Idy Peters
Owen Davis Jr. as Ross Peters
Marguerite Churchill as Opal Peters
Fifi D'Orsay as Fifi
Rex Bell as Clark McCurdy
Robert P. Kerr as Tupper
Ivan Lebedeff as Marquis de Brissac
Edgar Kennedy as Ed Eggers
Marcelle Corday as Marquise De Brissac
General Lodijensky as Grand Duke Mikhail
André Cheron as Valet
Gregory Gaye as Prince Ordinsky
Marcia Manon as Miss Mason (uncredited)

References

^ They Had To See Paris details, silentera.com; accessed August 10, 2015.
^ The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1921-30 by The American Film Institute, c. 1971