They Had to See Paris (1929)

6.4/10 82 min Comedy

Overview

Oklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. His wife Idy, hitherto content, decides the family must go to Paris to get "culture" and meet "the right kind of people." Pike and his grown son and daughter soon have flirtatious French admirers; Idy rents a chateau from an impoverished aristocrat; while Pike responds to each new development with homespun wit. In the inevitable clash, will pretentiousness and sophistication or common sense triumph?

Cast

Will Rogers

Pike Peters

Irene Rich

Idy Peters

Marguerite Churchill

Opal Peters

Ivan Lebedeff

Marquis de Brissac

Owen Davis Jr.

Ross Peters

Rex Bell

Clark McCurdy

Fifi D'Orsay

Fifi

Sherwood Bailey

Little Boy (uncredited)

André Cheron

Valet (uncredited)

Marcelle Corday

Marquise De Brissac (uncredited)

Gregory Gaye

Prince Ordinsky (uncredited)

Edgar Kennedy

Ed Eggers (uncredited)

Robert P. Kerr

Tupper (uncredited)

Marcia Manon

Miss Mason (uncredited)

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