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Love Is In The Air In Paris

WLRN's Classic Movie - THE LAST TIME I SAW PARIS
An American journalist returns to Paris - a city that gave him true love and deep grief.

8pm Friday LAST TIME I SAW PARIS (1954) Romantic Drama starring Van Johnson and Elizabeth Taylor. A writer returns to Paris to gain custody of his daughter, and while there reminisces about his ill-fated marriage to the girl's mother.
 

 
Reporter Charles Wills (Van Johnson), in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth (Elizabeth Taylor) following a brief flirtation with her sister, Marion (Donna Reed). After he and Helen marry, Charles pursues his novelistic ambition while supporting his new bride with a deadening job at a newspaper wire service. But when an old investment suddenly makes the family wealthy, their marriage begins to unravel -- until a sudden tragedy changes everything.
 

TRIVIA

  • Credited theatrical movie debut of Sir Roger Moore (Paul).
  • The plot element of Helen Ellswirth (Dame Elizabeth Taylor) contracting pneumonia interestingly foreshadows the actress' real-life battle with the disease several years later. She always insisted it was her near-death experience and resultant tracheotomy, and not her performance that won her an Oscar for Butterfield 8 (1960).
Mia Laurenzo is a 35-year veteran of public television in Miami. She began her career learning every aspect of video production. Currently she is a writer, producer, on-air host and promotions coordinator for TV, radio and the web.  Her experiences include producing for a series, special events and historical documentaries.  As a native Floridian, she is a perfect fit for South Florida's Storyteller Station, WLRN.  She has produced several award winning, nationally distributed documentaries and is the recipient of three Suncoast Regional Emmys.  
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