They Had to See Paris

5.9
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Run time: 82 min
  • Premiere: 1929. September 18.

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?

Discover

Will Rogers

Pike Peters

Irene Rich

Idy Peters

Ivan Lebedeff

Marquis de Brissac

Owen Davis Jr.

Ross Peters

Rex Bell

Clark McCurdy

Sherwood Bailey

Little Boy (uncredited)

André Cheron

Valet (uncredited)

Marcelle Corday

Marquise De Brissac (uncredited)

Gregory Gaye

Prince Ordinsky (uncredited)

Edgar Kennedy

Ed Eggers (uncredited)

Robert P. Kerr

Tupper (uncredited)

Theodore Lodi

Grand Duke Mikhail (uncredited)

Marcia Manon

Miss Mason (uncredited)

Christiane Yves

Fleurie (uncredited)

Art

Harry Oliver

Set Decoration

Camera

Al Brick

Director of Photography

Chester A. Lyons

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Sophie Wachner

Costume Design

Crew

Wilbur Morse, Jr.

Additional Writing

Bernard Steele

Dialogue Coach

Will Rogers

Additional Dialogue

Directing

Frank Borzage

Director

Lew Borzage

Assistant Director

J.W. Kaufman

Second Unit Director

Editing

Production

William Fox

Executive Producer

Barnard Steele

Production Manager

Sound

George Lipschultz

Original Music Composer

Writing

Sonya Levien

Scenario Writer

Owen Davis

Writer