I Met Him in Paris
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Wesley Ruggles
Claudette Colbert
Melvyn Douglas
Robert Young
Lee Bowman
Mona Barrie
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Struggling New York fashion designer Kay Denham finally saves enough money to go to Paris. She leaves behind her doting but dull fiancé, Berk Sutter, in a rebellion against all that is "sweet and conventional." In Paris, she is lonely and undirected, and ventures into the American Bar in her hotel where she meets Gene Anders and his friend, George Potter. Gene falls in love with Kay, and they date, but always with George as chaperon, because George does not trust Gene's motives. Kay remains somewhat aloof, disbelieving Gene's confession of love because she thinks he is too confident to be in love. George attempts to undermine her faith in Gene, and out of spite, Kay agrees to accompany Gene to Switzerland, hoping to prove that she and Gene can maintain a platonic relationship. George appoints himself chaperon and accompanies them to St. Moritz. The trio try all the winter sports, including tobaggoning, skiing and ice skating, thoroughly exhausting themselves. Gene and Kay become annoyed by George's constant intervention, and after George professes his love for Kay and warns her that Gene will never marry her, he resigns as chaperon. This relieves some tension, and Kay and he find themselves on good terms again. Gene's reluctance to commit himself, however, infuriates Kay. When his sophisticated wife Helen shows up unexpectedly, Kay is outraged by the betrayal of both men and returns to Paris. Berk is waiting at the hotel for her. Having had no response from his cables, he became suspicious when he discovered she was traveling with two men. George and Gene, whose wife had agreed to a divorce, follow Kay to Paris, and all three men vie for her affection. After dismissing Berk and Gene because the first does not trust her and the second is untrustworthy, Kay chooses George, who overcomes his reserved demeanor. They marry and sail for New York, while Berk and Gene plot an overthrow.
Director
Wesley Ruggles
Cast
Claudette Colbert
Melvyn Douglas
Robert Young
Lee Bowman
Mona Barrie
George Davis
Fritz Feld
Rudolph Amendt
Alexander Cross
Egon Brecher
Hans Joby
Jacques Vanaire
Gennaro Curci
Eugene Borden
Captain Fernando Garcia
Albert Morin
George Sorrell
Arthur Hurni
Albert Pollet
Louis La Bey
Joe Ploski
Jacques Lory
Francesco Maran
Yola D'avril
Jean De Briac
Charles Haas
Otto Jehly
Paco Moreno
Roman Novins
Alexander Schonberg
Joe Thoben
Gloria Williams
Priscilla Moran
Crew
Travis Banton
Claude Binyon
Hans Dreier
Farciot Edouart
Ernst Fegté
A. E. Freudeman
Earl Hayman
Gene Hornbostel
Arthur Jacobson
Don Johnson
William Lebaron
John Leipold
Otho Lovering
Helen Meinardi
Boris Morros
Wesley Ruggles
D'arcy Rutherford
Fred Schuessler
Leo Tover
Adolph Zukor
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
You have the ask to wish for me your pleasure?- Double-talking waiter
What??- Kay Denham
You have the ask to wish for me your pleasure?- Double-talking waiter
I have the ask to wish for you me pleasure...- Kay Denham
Yes! I am the waiter speaking who American. Okey-dokey?- Double-talking
Do you mind if I tell you again that I love you?- Gene Anders
Go right ahead.- Kay Denham
Will you believe it?- Gene Anders
No. But I like it.- Kay Denham
Trivia
Notes
According to studio publicity, Viola Macfayden, a figure-skating champion, coached the three stars in ice-skating. Skiing champion Hans Hauser and his five assistants coached the actors in skiing. Hollywood Reporter states that Sun Valley, ID, was used for location filming for the first time in this picture. Paramount built an Alpine-like village in Sun Valley, and filmed some scenes in Idaho's Sawtooth National Forest. The set was built on property owned by Gus Anderson, who leased the property to Paramount for five hundred dollars. According to the pressbook, the Anderson family moved into the buildings after the film was completed. The pressbook also notes that W. Averill Harriman, chairman of the Board of Union Pacific Railroad, which operated the Sun Valley resort, then just being developed, used a mock-up of the Swiss village to design a real town. Otho Lovering, a Paramount editor, headed a unit to photograph bobsled scenes at Lake Placid, site of the 1932 Olympics, according to publcity items. Winter costumes were needed for over 250 cast members, but due to a maritime strike, there was "an acute shortage of the required clothes. Paramount buyers finally went into the open market." The song "Moonlight and Shadows," originally used in Paramount's 1936 film The Jungle Princess, was used as background music for a scene in a Paris nightclub.
