The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) | Directed by Richard Brooks - Full Movie

An American journalist returns to Paris - a city that gave him true love and deep grief.

The Last Time I Saw Paris is a 1954 Technicolor romantic drama made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It is loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "Babylon Revisited." It was directed by Richard Brooks, produced by Jack Cummings and filmed on locations in Paris and the MGM backlot. The screenplay was by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Richard Brooks.

The film starred Elizabeth Taylor and Van Johnson in his last role for MGM, with Walter Pidgeon, Donna Reed, Eva Gabor, Kurt Kasznar, George Dolenz, Sandy Descher, Odette, and (a then-unknown) Roger Moore in his Hollywood debut. The film's title song, by composer Jerome Kern and lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II, was already a classic when the movie was made and inspired the movie's title. Though the song had already won an Oscar after its film debut in 1941's Lady Be Good, it is featured much more prominently in The Last Time I Saw Paris. It can be heard in many scenes, either being sung by Odette or being played as an instrumental.

Directed by: Richard Brooks
Screenplay by: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Richard Brooks
Based on: Babylon Revisited by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Donna Reed
Eva Gabor, Kurt Kasznar
Cinematography: Joseph Ruttenberg
Edited by: John D. Dunning
Music by: Conrad Salinger
Production company: Jeffy Productions
Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date: November 18, 1954
Running time: 116 minutes
Country: United States
Language: English
Budget: $1,960,000
Box office: $4,940,000