Playboy of Paris

Playboy of Paris
Playboy of Paris
Directed by	Ludwig Berger
Written by	Tristan Bernard (play); Percy Heath; Vincent Lawrence
Produced by	Ludwig Berger
Starring	Maurice Chevalier; Frances Dee; O.P. Heggie; Stuart Erwin
Cinematography	Henry W. Gerrard
Edited by	Merrill G. White
Music by	Howard Jackson ; John Leipold
Production; company	Paramount Pictures
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	October 31, 1930;
Running time	82 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Playboy of Paris is a 1930 American pre-Code musical comedy film directed by Ludwig Berger and starring Maurice Chevalier, Frances Dee (in her film debut), and O.P. Heggie. It was based on a 1911 play The Little Cafe by Tristan Bernard which had previously been adapted into a 1919 French silent film.^[1] Paramount produced a separate French-language version Le Petit Café, also starring Chevalier, which broke records for an opening-day attendance in Paris.^[2]

The film introduced the song "My Ideal", composed by Richard A. Whiting and Newell Chase with lyrics by Leo Robin, which became a jazz standard.

Plot

Albert Loriflan, a waiter in a Paris cafe, unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money from a wealthy relative. His unscrupulous boss, Philibert, refuses to release him from his long-term contract in the hope that Albert will buy him off with a large payment. But Albert refuses, and continues to work at the cafe even though he is now very rich. Before long he falls in love with Philibert's daughter Yvonne.