Paree, Paree is a black and white Vitaphone

Vitaphone

Vitaphone was a sound film process used on feature films and nearly 1,000 short subjects produced by Warner Bros. and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1930. Vitaphone was the last, but most successful, of the sound-on-disc processes...

 musical short  starring Bob Hope

Bob Hope

Bob Hope, KBE, KCSG, KSS was a British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in radio, television and movies. He was also noted for his work with the US Armed Forces and his numerous USO shows entertaining American military personnel...

and Dorothy Stone. Cole Porter

Cole Porter

Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, he defied the wishes of his domineering grandfather and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn towards musical theatre...

wrote the lyrics and music for this musical comedy short. This was the fifth film for which Cole Porter was credited for writing the music, at the age of 43, and Bob Hope's second short film.

Credited Cast

• Bob Hope
  Bob Hope
  Bob Hope, KBE, KCSG, KSS was a British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in radio, television and movies. He was also noted for his work with the US Armed Forces and his numerous USO shows entertaining American military personnel...
  
   as Peter Forbes
• Dorothy Stone as Lulu Carroll
• Billy Leonard
  Billy Leonard
  Billy Leonard is an Irish republican politician.Born in Lurgan to a Protestant family, Leonard is a former lay preacher and former member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary reserve and the Orange Order.-Career:...
  
   as Violet
• Rodney McLennan as Michael Cummings (credited as Rodney McLennon)
• Charles Collins
  Charles Collins
  Charles Collins may refer to:*Charles E. Collins, independent candidate for the president of the United States in 1996 and 2000*Charles Collins , American actor*Charles Collins c.1680–1744, Irish painter...
  
   as Baxter
• A black man as Himself

Plot

A wealthy man (Bob Hope) makes a bet with his friends that he could win a girl (Dorothy Stone) without her knowing of his riches.

Songs

Some of the songs in this short were first used in the 1929 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...

 musical

Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...

 called Fifty Million Frenchmen

Fifty Million Frenchmen

Fifty Million Frenchmen is a musical comedy with a book by Herbert Fields and music and lyrics by Cole Porter. It opened on Broadway in 1929 and was adapted for a film two years later...

, then in the 1931 film adaptation of Fifty Million Frenchman

Fifty Million Frenchmen (film)

__notoc__Fifty Million Frenchmen is a 1931 musical comedy film photographed entirely in Technicolor. It was based on Cole Porter's 1929 Broadway musical. It was originally intended to be released, in the United States, late in 1930, but was shelved due to public apathy towards musicals. Despite...

, which was filmed in full color by Technicolor

Technicolor

Technicolor is a color motion picture process invented in 1916 and improved over several decades.It was the second major process, after Britain's Kinemacolor, and the most widely used color process in Hollywood from 1922 to 1952...

. Three years after the movie Fifty Million Frenchmen was released, four songs from the Broadway musical and movie were used in this short.

• "Paree, What Did You Do to Me"
• "You Do Something to Me
  You Do Something to Me
  "You Do Something to Me" is a song written by Cole Porter. It is notable in that it was the first number in Porter's first fully integrated-book musical Fifty Million Frenchmen...
  
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• "Find Me a Primitive Man"
• "You've Got That Thing"