PAREE, PAREE is a 20-minute remake of FIFTY MILLION FRENCHMEN (1931), which was based on Cole Porter's hit 1929 Broadway musical. The 1931 version eliminated Porter's score because movie audiences were tired of musicals due to the deluge of musicals in the first years of the talkies. Instead it was filmed as a straight comedy with the comedy team of Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson. Thankfully a sizable portion of Porter's songs were used in PAREE, PAREE, so it was Bob Hope who introduced filmgoers to the Cole Porter standard "You Do Something to Me."
Dorothy Stone who plays Lulu in Paree, Paree (1934) was in real life married to Charles Collins who plays Baxter in that same short film.
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