Paris in Spring (1935) DVD-R

Starring Mary Ellis, Tullio Carminati, Ida Lupino, Lynne Overman, James
Blakeley, Jessie Ralph, Akim Tamiroff
Directed by Lewis Milestone

Print: black/white
Runtime: 82 min.
Genre: comedy
Print Quality: B

Tulio Carminati, who was previously and felicitously teamed with Grace
Moore in One Night of Love, co-stars with another splendid operatic
singer, Mary Ellis, in Paris in Spring. Ellis plays Simone, who breaks up
her long-standing engagement with Paul de Lille (Carminati) because she
balks at the notion of marriage. Simultaneously, young lovers Mignon (Ida
Lupino) and Albert (James Blakely) split up for the same reason. In
desperation, Mignon heads to the Eiffel Tower, intending to leap to her
death. She is dissuaded from doing away with herself by Paul, who'd come
to the tower with the same thought in mind. The symbiotic relationship
between the two couples is played to the hilt, especially when Mignon
and Albert conspire to make Simone and Albert jealous. The distinctly
American character actor Lynne Overman is bizarrely but effectively cast
as a dry-witted French gendarme.