They Had to See Paris

Sep 18, 1929

1h 22m

★ 5.9

America’s greatest humorist now TALKS from the screen!

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?

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Fox Film Corporation

They Had to See Paris Trailers

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Cast

Pike Peters

Will Rogers

Idy Peters

Irene Rich

Opal Peters

Marguerite Churchill

Marquis de Brissac

Ivan Lebedeff

Ross Peters

Owen Davis Jr.

Clark McCurdy

Rex Bell

Fifi

Fifi D'Orsay

Little Boy (uncredited)

Sherwood Bailey

Valet (uncredited)

André Cheron

Marquise De Brissac (uncredited)

Marcelle Corday

Prince Ordinsky (uncredited)

Gregory Gaye

Ed Eggers (uncredited)

Edgar Kennedy

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