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The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) was a Drama - Romance Film directed by Richard Brooks and produced by Jack Cummings.

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Mill Creek Musings: The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)

By Lindsey on May 20, 2015 From The Motion Pictures

American journalist Charles Wills (Van Johnson) works for the Stars and Stripes newspaper. He’s in Paris, covering a story about the VE day celebration marking the end of the second World War. (Image via shop.tcm.com) Outside of a local cafe owned by his friend Maurice, he meets Helen Elliswir... Read full article


THE LAST TIME I SAW PARIS (1954)

By Dawn on Nov 15, 2009 From Noir and Chick Flicks

THE LAST TIME I SAW PARIS (1954) Charles (Van Johnson), a reporter for The Stars and Stripes, enters Maurice's cafe, where he runs into his friend, Claude Matine, and is introduced to Marion (Donna Reed). Charles, is instantly attracted to Marion's sister Helen (Elisabeth Taylor), but really does no... Read full article


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Helen Ellswirth: I've been having a bad day for a year now, maybe it's time to grow up.
Charles Wills: It's too late to grow up.


Helen Ellswirth: Don't ever phone if you can possibly come yourself. Don't ever leave if you can stay.


Paul Lane: Of course I love you.
Helen Ellswirth: Love is never of course.


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The film is loosely based upon F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "Babylon Revisited".
Helen paraphrases Thomas Wolfe "You can never go home again," a reference to one of his novels, 'You Can't Go Home Again' (1940).
This is one of a handful of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer productions of the early 1950s whose original copyrights were never renewed and are now apparently in Public Domain; for this reason this title is now offered, often in very inferior copies, at bargain prices, by numerous VHS and DVD distributors who do not normally handle copyrighted or Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer material.
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