Colibel Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Madilyn Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

SimonJack This was only the third short that Bob Hope made in the start of his film career in 1934. It's interesting that he has second billing here. Of this entire small cast, he is the only one who went on to stardom or even any kind of film career at all. Only Charles Collins of this cast had more than half a dozen shorts, and his 14 appearances were mostly shorts or uncredited roles. Other reviewers give the background on this short. It has some songs from Cole Porter's 1929 Broadway musical, "Fifty Million Frenchmen." Hope sings the hit song, "You Do Something to Me." One other thing that struck me about this entertaining film is the choreography with a dance troupe listed as The Climas. No other information about this group is readily available, but they do some dance and choreography numbers that remind one of the lush Busby Berkeley films of the past. This is a mini version of the Broadway play, and Hope's Peter Forbes wins a bet with his wealthy friend, Baxter (Charles Collins) that he can woo LuLu to the altar within a month. The hitch is that he must do so without his bankroll, so he turns his wallet and cash over to Baxter. Baxter bets his motor boat against Peter's best polo pony. Peter wastes no time and asks Lulu point blank if she will marry him. Having broken the ice so quickly, and convincing her that he's not a "maniac," he soon wins her heart and hand and the bet. The quality of this short isn't very good. It has an interesting and diverse plot. A fight scene in the Café de la Moir has a close-up of the bartender. If that isn't Claudette Colbert in a cameo, it's a woman who could pass for her double or twin sister. This is a fun little musical comedy extra that came on a DVD of "Silk Stockings." See the Quotes section in the IMDb Web page on the film for some funny lines.

MartinHafer "Paree, Paree" is among Bob Hope's earliest films. I can only assume his newness to the medium would explain why it really isn't a comedy--it's really a musical. Sure, he makes a few quips here and there but they aren't all that funny and seem like more of an afterthought. Peter (Hope) is in Paris and he's smitten with a lady...though he's only seen her and doesn't even know who she is. However, he bets his friends that within 30 days he'll marry her...even though he's broke. What follows is far less romance and more just a whole bunch of musical numbers...one after the other. In other words, plot is pretty much secondary. And, considering it's a short film, it really could have used less singing and more plot. Watchable and pleasant enough but nothing more. It does, however, allow you to hear the nice Cole Porter song, "You Do Something to Me".

bkoganbing I would not say that Bob Hope was a major star on Broadway, that eluded him until he got into films, but he was a prominent Broadway performer during the Thirties before he went to Hollywood for The Big Broadcast of 1938. This short was made in New York probably between his run in Roberta and Say When. What Paree, Paree is is a condensed version of the Cole Porter Broadway show Fifty Million Frenchmen. The soundtrack includes You Do Something To Me, Find me a Primitive Man, You've Got That Thing, and the title song all from the stage production of Fifty Million Frenchmen.This short while it lacks a lot of production values is a marvelous opportunity to see something of a photographed Broadway show of the time. In that it's like The Marx Brothers Cocoanuts or Animal Crackers.Bob Hope was not in the original Broadway cast of Fifty Million Frenchmen, but Cole Porter would provide him with a great duet with Ethel Merman in Hope's last Broadway appearance a few years later in Red, Hot, and Blue. He introduced It's Delovely with her from that show which did lead to his Hollywood contract.Now that would be great if someone preserved them on film singing It's Delovely.

Larry41OnEbay-2 A delight mini movie, a musical short based on three of Cole Porter's Broadway smash songs. Bob Hope's first credited film is a delight! He plays an American playboy millionaire on vacation in Paris. The film opens with him sitting at a table of an out door café telling his friends about this beauty that takes his breath away. Suddenly he spots her a few yards away. he is so over come his friends tease him and suggest "just show her your bank book." But Hope claims he can win her in less than 30 days with "no" money! They bet polo ponies over the issue and take all his cash and ID's. Hope follows her and when they are alone gushes out a proposal she does not believe he is sincere until he sings to her, "You Do Something to Me" by Cole Porter. But she must leave and he tries to earn money as a tour guide so he can pursue her. But when she sees him showing another girl around town, disillusioned she wants to drop him. He continues to chase her and catches up to her and her family at a race track where he bets his meager earnings on the last race hoping to win enough to impress her. Through a series of events and large synchronized dance numbers he loses the winning ticket and she decides to marry him rich or poor. So he wins the girl, the race and the bet and sings two more songs!