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The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) Facts
| Director(s) | Richard Brooks |
| Producer(s) | Jack Cummings |
| Featured Cast | Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon, Donna Reed, Eva Gabor |
| Total Facts | 5 |
First shown on network TV after being telecast on local stations for years.
Helen paraphrases Thomas Wolfe "You can never go home again," a reference to one of his novels, 'You Can't Go Home Again' (1940).
The film is loosely based upon F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story "Babylon Revisited".
This is one of a handful of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer productions of the early 1950s whose original copyrights were never renewed and are now apparently in Public Domain; for this reason this title is now offered, often in very inferior copies, at bargain prices, by numerous VHS and DVD distributors who do not normally handle copyrighted or Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer material.
While the "mystery challenger" on Episode dated 14 November 1954, Elizabeth Taylor was asked why this movie was renamed; she replied that the studio was afraid audiences would assume that a movie titled "Babylon Revisited" was about biblical subject matters.