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They Had to See Paris

(1929)

September 18, 1929• 1h 22m
64%
TMDB Score

Overview

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?

Frank Borzage

Director

Top Billed Cast

WR

Will Rogers

Pike Peters

IR

Irene Rich

Idy Peters

MC

Marguerite Churchill

Opal Peters

IL

Ivan Lebedeff

Marquis de Brissac

ODJ

Owen Davis Jr.

Ross Peters

RB

Rex Bell

Clark McCurdy

FD

Fifi D'Orsay

Fifi

SB

Sherwood Bailey

Little Boy (uncredited)

AC

André Cheron

Valet (uncredited)

MC

Marcelle Corday

Marquise De Brissac (uncredited)