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Director
  
Roy Mack

Produced by
  
Samuel Sax

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

6.2/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Short, Comedy, Musical

Language
  
English

Cast
  
Dorothy Stone
(Lulu),
Bob Hope
(Peter),
Billie Leonard
(Violet),
Rodney McLennan
(Michael (as Rodney McLennon)),
Charles Collins
(Baxter),
The Climas
(Apache Scene Dancers)

Writer
  
Cyrus Wood
,
E. Ray Goetz
,
Herbert Fields

Release date
  
September 8, 1934

Genres
  
Short Film, Comedy, Musical, Musical comedy

Distributor
  
Warner Bros. Entertainment

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Paree, Paree is a 1934 black-and-white Vitaphone musical short starring Bob Hope and Dorothy Stone. Cole Porter wrote the lyrics and music for this musical comedy short.

Contents

Premise

A wealthy man (Bob Hope) makes a bet with his friends that he could win a girl (Dorothy Stone) without her knowing of his riches.

Cast

  • Bob Hope as Peter Forbes
  • Dorothy Stone as Lulu Carroll
  • Billy Leonard as Violet
  • Rodney McLennan as Michael Cummings (credited as Rodney McLennon)
  • Charles Collins as Baxter
  • Charles La Torre as Flower Vendor

    • Songs

    Four of the songs in this short were first used in Porter's 1929 Broadway musical Fifty Million Frenchmen, then in the 1931 film adaptation of the same name, which was filmed in Technicolor.

  • "Paree, What Did You Do to Me" – Female singer
  • "You Don't Know Paree" – Orchestra
  • "You Do Something to Me" – Peter and Lulu
  • "Find Me a Primitive Man" – Violet
  • "You've Got That Thing" – Peter
  • Finale: "You've Got That Thing" (reprise) – Company
    • These songs were from Fifty Million Frenchmen.

    DVD

    This short is on DVD in the special features of the MGM movie musical Silk Stockings (1957).

    References

    Paree, Paree Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    Paree, Paree IMDb Paree, Paree themoviedb.org