They Had to See Paris poster

They Had to See Paris poster

They Had to See Paris

America’s greatest humorist now TALKS from the screen!

1929 1h 22m 6.4Movie

Comedy

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?

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Frank Borzage

Director

Homer Croy

Novel

Owen Davis

Writer

Top Cast

Will Rogers

Will Rogers

Pike Peters

Irene Rich

Irene Rich

Idy Peters

Marguerite Churchill

Marguerite Churchill

Opal Peters

Ivan Lebedeff

Ivan Lebedeff

Marquis de Brissac

Owen Davis Jr.

Owen Davis Jr.

Ross Peters

Rex Bell

Rex Bell

Clark McCurdy

Fifi D'Orsay

Fifi D'Orsay

Fifi

Sherwood Bailey

Sherwood Bailey

Little Boy (uncredited)

André Cheron

André Cheron

Valet (uncredited)

Marcelle Corday

Marcelle Corday

Marquise De Brissac (uncredited)

Gregory Gaye

Gregory Gaye

Prince Ordinsky (uncredited)

Edgar Kennedy

Edgar Kennedy

Ed Eggers (uncredited)

Robert P. Kerr

Robert P. Kerr

Tupper (uncredited)

Theodore Lodi

Grand Duke Mikhail (uncredited)

Marcia Manon

Marcia Manon

Miss Mason (uncredited)

Christiane Yves

Fleurie (uncredited)