April in Paris is a 1952 musical film

Musical film

The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The songs usually advance the plot or develop the film's characters, though in some cases they serve merely as breaks in the storyline, often as elaborate...

 starring Doris Day

Doris Day

Doris Day is an American actress, singer and, since her retirement from show business, an animal rights activist. With an entertainment career that spanned through almost 50 years, Day started her career as a big band singer in 1939, but only began to be noticed after her first hit recording,...

 and Ray Bolger

Ray Bolger

Raymond Wallace "Ray" Bolger was an American entertainer of stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of the Scarecrow and Kansas farmworker Hank in The Wizard of Oz.-Early life:...

. It was directed by David Butler.

Synopsis

Winthrop Putnam is the Assistant Secretary to the Assistant to the Undersecretary

Undersecretary

An under secretary is an executive government official in many countries, frequently a career public servant, who typically acts as a senior administrator or second-in-command to a politically-appointed Cabinet Minister or other government official...

 of State, and was formerly Assistant Assistant Secretary to the Assistant to the Undersecretary of State. He sends an invitation to Ethel Barrymore to represent the American theatre at an art exposition in Paris

Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...

. Instead, the invitation is received and accepted by Ethel "Dynamite" Jackson, an All-American Broadway

Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

 chorus girl. Ethel and Winthrop meet on the way to Paris and fall in love. However, Winthrop is engaged to Marcia Sherman, daughter of his boss Secretary Robert Sherman. After a misunderstanding, Winthrop and Ethel ultimately end up together.

Songs

• "April in Paris"
  April in Paris (song)
  "April in Paris" is a song composed by Vernon Duke with lyrics by E. Y. Harburg in 1932 for the Broadway musical, Walk A Little Faster. The original 1933 hit was performed by Freddy Martin, and the 1952 remake was by the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra, whose version made the Cashbox Top 50.Composer Alec...
  
   - E.Y. Harburg
  • This song was first a hit in 1932, composed by Vernon Duke and written by Harburg.
• "It Must Be Good" - Doris Day
• "I'm Gonna Ring the Bell Tonight" - Doris Day
• "That's What Makes Paris Paree" - Doris Day
• "I'm Going to Rock the Boat" - Doris Day
• "Give Me Your Lips" - Claude Dauphin
• "I Ask You" - Doris Day and Ray Bolger
• "The Place You Hold in My Heart" - Doris Day and Ray Bolger
• "I Know a Place" - Doris Day and Ray Bolger

Cast

Character	Actor
Ethel S. 'Dynamite' Jackson	Doris Day
S. Winthrop Putnam	Ray Bolger
Philippe Fouquet	Claude Dauphin
Marcia Sherman	Eve Miller
François	George Givot
Secretary Robert Sherman	Paul Harvey
Joshua Stevens	Herbert Farjeon
Sinclair Wilson	Wilson Millar
Joseph Welmar	Raymond Largay
Tracy	John Alvin
Cab Driver	Jack Lomas