That Girl from Paris | |
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Directed by | Leigh Jason |
Screenplay by | Jane Murfin Joseph Fields |
Based on | Viennese Charmer 1928 story in Young's Magazine by W. Carey Wonderly |
Produced by | Pandro S. Berman |
Starring | Lily Pons Jack Oakie Gene Raymond |
Cinematography | J. Roy Hunt |
Edited by | William Morgan |
Music by | Nathaniel Shilkret |
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Distributed by | RKO Radio Pictures |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $534,000[2] |
Box office | $1 million[2] |
That Girl from Paris is a 1936 American musical comedy film directed by Leigh Jason and starring Lily Pons, Jack Oakie, and Gene Raymond.[3] The film made a profit of $101,000.[2] John O. Aalberg was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Sound Recording.[4]
Nikki Martin, a Parisian opera star, takes off in search of adventure and true-love leaving her arranged husband to be at the altar. While hitchhiking, Nikki meets handsome American musician, Windy McLean and his band, the McLean Wildcats. Windy immediately spites her, but Nikki falls in love with him and follows him to New York by stowing away on the ship his on. The steward finds her hiding in Windy and the Wilcats room. She is locked up by authorities and Windy and the band are fired. When the ship reaches New York, Nikki escapes off the ship and finds out the Wilcats apartment. They demand her to leave, fearing being implicated but she refuses. Clair, Windy girlfriend shows up with Hammacher, and offers the band a low paying job at a roadhouse in another city. Anxious to depart, they accept. Nikki becomes the bands singer. Clair becomes jealous and reports her to the authorities, causing the band to flee again.