The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) [Drama] [Romance]
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- As World War II ends in Europe, Stars and Stripes journalist Charles Wills (Van Johnson) is on the streets of Paris, covering the celebrations. He is suddenly grabbed by a beautiful woman, who kisses him and disappears. Charles follows the crowd to Café Dhingo and meets another pretty woman named Marion Elliswirth (Donna Reed). The mutual attraction is instant and she invites him to join her father's celebration of the end of the war in Europe. Charles, Marion and her persistent French suitor Claude Matine (George Dolenz) arrive at the Elliswirth household, and we find that the woman who had kissed Charles is Marion's younger sister Helen (Elizabeth Taylor).
Their father, James Elliswirth (Walter Pidgeon), had survived World War I and promptly joined the Lost Generation. Unlike most drifters, he never grew out of it; raising his two daughters to desire such a lifestyle. Helen takes after her father and uses her beauty to sustain a life of luxury even though they are flat broke. Marion goes the other way and looks for serious-minded and conventional young men such as Claude, an aspiring prosecutor, and Charles, the future novelist.
Charles and Helen fall in love and start dating. After Helen recovers from a near-death case of pneumonia, they get married and settle in Paris. James good-naturedly joins the happy family of Charles, with Helen eventually having a daughter Vickie (Sandy Descher). Marion, having lost Charles to Helen, agrees to marry Claude. Charles struggles to make ends meet with his meagre salary, unsuccessfully works on his novels and looks after Vickie.
At about this time, the barren oil fields in Texas James had bought years before finally begin to produce. Charles, to whom James had given the oil fields as a dowry, quits his job, and Helen and James begin to host parties instead of going to them. Sudden wealth changes Helen, who becomes more responsible, while Charles parties his wealth away after quitting his newspaper job and having all his novels rejected by publishers. They also each start to pursue other interests: Helen flirts with handsome tennis player Paul Lane (Roger Moore), while Charles competes in a local Paris-to-Monte Carlo race with professional divorcee Lorraine Quarl (Eva Gabor).
After the race Charles returns to Paris, only to find Helen sitting in Café Dhingo with Paul. A fight breaks out between Paul and Charles, and an angry Charles goes home first and puts the chain on the door, preventing it from being opened all the way. When Helen comes home and tries to enter she can't. She calls out to him, but Charles is in a drunken stupor on the staircase and we hear the bottle drop from his hands as Helen calls. Helen ends up having to walk all the way to her sister's in the snow and rain. She catches pneumonia again and dies.
Marion petitions for and gets full custody of Vickie, while Charles returns home to America. A few years later, having straightened himself out, published a book, and stopped boozing, Charles returns to Paris, hoping his reform will persuade Marion to give Vickie back to him. Charles tells Marion that he only has one drink a day now. Marion refuses, still feeling resentful towards Charles for having fallen for Helen instead of her. Seeing that Charles and Vickie belong together, Claude steps in and tells Marion that she is punishing Charles for his not realizing that Marion loved him. It is painful for him to tell her that he, Claude, could not have all of her love, but Charles should not be punished any more.
Marion goes into Café Dhingo (on whose main wall is a big picture of Helen) to look for Charles (who is gazing at the painting) and tells him that Helen would not have wanted him to be alone. Outside the cafe, Claude is with Vickie. The child runs to Charles and Charles and the child walk off together as the movie ends.
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Directed by Richard Brooks, produced by Jack Cummings, wscreenplay by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Richard Brooks, story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, starring Elizabeth Taylor as Helen Ellswirth, Van Johnson as Charles Wills, Walter Pidgeon as James Ellswirth, Donna Reed as Marion Ellswirth, Eva Gabor as Lorraine Quarl, Kurt Kasznar as Maurice, George Dolenz as Claude Matine, Roger Moore as Paul, Sandy Descher as Vicki, Celia Lovsky as Mama, Peter Leeds as Barney, John Doucette as Campbell and Odette Myrtil as Singer.
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Source: "The Last Time I Saw Paris" Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 22 July 2013. Web. 22 July 2013. en.wikipedia.or....
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So very beautiful and full of emotions 🦚
Elizabeth Taylor and Van Johnson are an inspiration to love 💕
Impossible not to shed tears 🍃
I enjoy watching this movie gem 💎 every year 🎻🌷
Thank you so much for sharing with us 😌🪕🦩🍒🍃
Wonderful movie. Thank you! I grew up watching these with my Mother and I still love them.
Yes!; I return to this movie time & again. So many lost worlds...and the very Best of Van J. & Elizabeth T.
💐 No Doubt.
THE best film Van Johnson did, and reminded me how wonderful ET was. Fantastic film!
all Vans movies were good battle ground was great to .
Liz Taylor is as lovely as always.
Dammit! Ending gets me every time. Van Johnson's expression of emotion in 1:55:46 is pure magic.
Great actor
People are often dismissive of Van Johnson. I recently saw him in Beyond This Place, a taut, suspenseful murder story. And also he did a film called 23 (?) Paces to Baker Street, where I think he played a blind guy. Both made in England, both wonderful.
This is a great movie. It is very educational based on the short story of Scott Fitzgerald. This is not the first time I watch this masterpiece. I liked it and subscribed to the channel.
Great movie...this is the second time I watched it.
great film cry every time
Nice movie. Lizzy was great!
Brilliant movie great show thank you very much
Great film; truth is, countless soldiers felt cold turkey once the war was over.
Next to the Bellboy, this is #2. I love this masterwork.
Watched this film when i was little i loved it .I cryed then an ive cried now. 💝
great movie! Elizabeth was very beautiful....
1:11:16,1:13:12 ,1:26:08, 1:29:03
Here Roger Moore was only 27 Years younger & handsome in his Hollywood debut with star Elizabeth Taylor so surreal, who would've known that Roger Moore would went on to become James Bond, this was even before Saint 😇.
RIP to both 💐 🙏
Favorite movie of all time, Pure clean romance
Yeah and adultery too.
Sadly there is adultery, however its a life lesson in that flirting & disrespecting one another demonstrated the fall of their marriage. It showed that though they failed eachother, they didn't actually commit the ultimate act of a sequel relationship with said partners & they still loved eachother. It's heartbreaking 💔 & sadly a true to life situation. It also shows the real life struggle to improve as the surviving parent to regain a relationship with his child, repair relationship with sister in-law & etc. This may not be a Faith Based movie, however its still a decently made movie.
thanks alot T.C.F. you have some great classics! the young kids will never appreciate these films hat with all there cgi shit lol a big thanks buddy
Sorry but I'm 12 and i watch old hollywood films and there's other children who love these films !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@peaceandluv3138 You're now apprx 17yrs old & I pray that you still watch these classics, especially the one's that are clean, thought provoking & are based on true stories. This movie is a life lesson type of movie. Bless you. "Isa"
just now saw it for the first time I thought it was a very good movie plus I like Van Johnson in Brigadoon ...Steve D
yes not to mention when he played the blind man detective.
Can you upload "The Big Hangover"
Actually I was in Paris in December 2000 for few days, and got back to the American since..!
Dưới trời Paris.
(HIẾN CHƯƠNG 2000)
Paris lá rụng thu tàn,
Sáng nay thức dậy lá vàng còn rơi.
Bình minh vừa hé chân trời.
Một đêm dài thật qua rồi đó em.
Anh đi tìm bạn bè quen,
Người tình năm cũ bên dòng sông Seine.
Cuối thu lá rụng bên thềm,
Thánh đường tháp cổ, chuông rền vọng vang.
Chim bồ câu trắng lang thang,
Năng vàng buổi sớm bình minh chân trời.
Dừng chân lữ khách mĩm cười!!
Tiếng Anh, tiếng Pháp, dưới trời Paris...
Paris 12/ 2000
Anything with Elizabeth Taylor and Van Johnson.........
Fat lot of good you are to film fans in the UK.
The films are all older and copyright free why block the UK?
I am puzzled
How extraordinary to see Paris in 56; I was there, aged 4. The film is pure Fitzgerald - whom I'm proud to say I never read (way better W. Faulkner; all of it). And, wouldn't anybody punch R. Moore right in the face the minute you saw him; perfect, insufferable gigolo?
John Funck this Film was based on Babylon Revisited a short story Fitzgerald. I can’t tell from your confusing people comment if you already knew that?
520👍🏻 Thank God💞♾🥂 Love this universe as always👼
Say no to self pity!
Thanks for posting, but I see no Chemistry between Van Johnson and Elizabeth Taylor...she was perfect for the role.... he wasn't.
Yup!!
You are right.
You are right.
This film was released the same that the French army was defeated at Dien Bien Phu by the Vietnamese.
Came from English vinglish😅
Sapvo di trovare tutti i più bei fil su You Tube ..... peccato che sono solo in versione Inglse!
that car running to all thos birds wouldent happen today .
Heya. Very Resourceful babies discover What's your opinion about it, guys !!!
What a horrible movie! Acting was great, but the story line was so depressing. Ugh. Now I have to watch something happy.
1:10:56 Gilderoy Lockhart: hello Paul
If you play this movie backwards it looks like a man becomes a Single father and a woman dies because she doesn't want to be a mom.
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Is this supposed to be in color or what? Jeeesh. This is pretty washed out if you ask me and you'd think MGM's fixit people would fix it. It even looks like the lighting people were WAY off.