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Doris Day | ... | Ethel S. 'Dynamite' Jackson | |
Ray Bolger | ... | S. Winthrop Putnam | |
Claude Dauphin | ... | Philippe Fouquet | |
Eve Miller | ... | Marcia Sherman | |
George Givot | ... | François | |
Paul Harvey | ... | Secretary Robert Sherman | |
Herbert Farjeon | ... | Joshua Stevens | |
Wilson Millar | ... | Sinclair Wilson | |
Raymond Largay | ... | Joseph Welmar | |
John Alvin | ... | Tracy | |
Jack Lomas | ... | Cab Driver | |
reste de la distribution par ordre alphabétique: | |||
Andrew Berner | ... | Jacques (uncredited) | |
Eugene Borden | ... | Master chef (uncredited) | |
Don Brodie | ... | Employee (uncredited) | |
Dee Carroll | ... | Secretary (uncredited) | |
Robert Cornell | ... | Charles (uncredited) | |
George Davis | ... | Waiter with Bicarbonate of Soda (uncredited) | |
Bess Flowers | ... | Disembarking Airline Passenger (uncredited) | |
Donald Kerr | ... | Usher (uncredited) | |
Maurice Marsac | ... | France-America Lines Representative (uncredited) | |
Shepard Menken | ... | Sidewalk Cafe Waiter (uncredited) | |
Patricia Mitchell | ... | Marie (uncredited) | |
Nestor Paiva | ... | Ship's Captain (uncredited) | |
Veronica Pataky | ... | Mrs. Fouquet (uncredited) | |
Jill Richards | ... | Secretary (uncredited) | |
Delfina Salazar | ... | Yvonne (uncredited) | |
Harry Tyler | ... | Stage Doorman (uncredited) | |
Patsy Weil | ... | Jeanne (uncredited) |
Réalisé par | |||
David Butler | |||
Scénaristes(in alphabetical order) | ||
Jack Rose | screenplay | |
Jack Rose | story "Girl from Paris" | |
Melville Shavelson | screenplay | |
Melville Shavelson | story "Girl from Paris" |
Produit par | |||
William Jacobs | .... | producer | |
Image | |||
Wilfred M. Cline | |||
Montage | |||
Irene Morra | |||
Direction artistique | |||
Leo K. Kuter | |||
Décorateur de plateau | |||
Lyle B. Reifsnider | |||
Création des costumes | |||
Leah Rhodes | |||
Maquillage | |||
Gordon Bau | .... | makeup artist | |
Assistant réalisateur | |||
Philip Quinn | .... | assistant director | |
Technicien du son | |||
Charles David Forrest | .... | sound | |
C.A. Riggs | .... | sound | |
Editorial Department | |||
Mitchell Kovaleski | .... | color consultant | |
Music Department | |||
Frank Comstock | .... | orchestrator | |
Vernon Duke | .... | original song music | |
Ray Heindorf | .... | musical director | |
Norman Luboff | .... | music arranger: vocal arrangements | |
LeRoy Prinz | .... | musical numbers | |
Ray Heindorf | .... | composer: incidental music (uncredited) | |
Howard Jackson | .... | composer: incidental music (uncredited) | |
Divers | |||
Donald Saddler | .... | choreographer (uncredited) | |
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Doris Day as Ethel 'Dynamite' Jackson gets a letter from the State Department saying that she's been chosen to be an American representative at an Arts Festival in Paris. The letter was supposed to go to Ethel Barrymore instead. Doris had written the State Department about a work permit visa to work at a nightclub in Montreal.
It's a faux pas of the highest order that State Department bureaucrat Ray Bolger has committed and he tries to rectify the situation. But when the press gets a hold of it, the thing becomes a popular move. So Bolger's boss Paul Harvey puts him in charge of getting Doris's diplomatic etiquette up to speed. For better or worse Bolger and Day are going to spend April In Paris together.
The popular Vernon Duke-E.Y. Harburg standard serves as the title for this film and Warner Brothers got Vernon Duke to write the balance of the score with Sammy Cahn's lyrics. Nothing really outstanding here, but the score fits well with styles of the two leads.
Doris is great as always, the problem here is Bolger and the part he plays. Ray Bolger was a great personality on stage who but for two roles never quite was able to translate the same popularity to the big screen. One role was of course the Scarecrow in The Wizard Of Oz and the other was the lead in Charley's Aunt. And both of those were comic parts.
As a traditional screen lead Ray never quite made it. In fact in watching April In Paris I couldn't quite see what Doris saw in him. Of course with her attraction it was obvious as Bolger so succinctly put it, 'What a Built'. Ray plays a traditional WASP stuffed shirt diplomat who is engaged to the demanding daughter of Harvey, Eve Miller. Getting involved with Day was not an upward career move.
Of course Doris sparks the attention of Claude Dauphin who's working his way back to France on the same ship that Bolger and Day and company are traveling. She has a nice number with Dauphin in a Parisian nightclub.
Bolger's big moment on the screen is a very nicely staged fantasy number where portraits of Lincoln and Washington come alive and dance with him as Bolger dreams about his future. It was as creative as something Gene Kelly or Fred Astaire might have done.
Still Ray is not quite leading man material and the film can't overcome that. Fans of Doris and Ray will like it though, but I fear it's not one of Doris Day's best films.