My heading above much more accurately describes this movie. Maybe they didn't want to give away the plot, for some strange reason. I think this is just one of those instances when the producers stuck with an early title and didn't think to change it. Anyway, this movie is an entertaining, if far-fetched, story about a love triangle. Or, more like a love quadrangle at the start and finish.
Claudette Colbert is the focus of the triangle, and her two main suitors vying for her affections are wonderfully played by Melvyn Douglas and Robert Young. The humor comes mostly in the sparring between the two competitors.
"I Met Him in Paris" isn't one of the wittier comedy romances that Colbert made; but it has its occasional clever or really goofy line that will cause a laugh. Kay (Colbert) is a New York fashion designer who has been saving and planning a three-week trip to Paris for five years.
Early in the movie after her arrival in Paris, she goes into the American Restaurant in the high-class hotel where she's staying. She asks the maître d' if he speaks English, and he calls for a particular waiter. The waiter's line floors Kay: "Madam. You have the ask to wish for me you pleasure." After Kay's recovery and a couple questions about his English, he says he learned English from a Japanese house boy from America.
Later, after she has met George (Douglas) and Gene (Young), she dances with George who is admittedly a terrible dancer. As they walk back to their table, George says, "Did I do that?" Kay says, "Oh, no. I was limping when I came in."
The best humor, and most of it in this film, comes from a number of escapades. The trio leaves Paris for Switzerland, with George to act as chaperon of Gene and Kay. There is a nice long scene of Kay and George ice skating. Another long humorous adventure has Kay and Gene skiing downhill. A third has all three of them bobsledding.
Naturally, with all this winter activity, the film has some beautiful scenery. The outdoor stuff was shot at Sun Valley, Idaho, with scenes that could pass for the Swiss Alps.
I mentioned that the plot was pretty far-fetched; but one must remember that the majority of people were very proper with relationships in that time. So, it's conceivable, but not very likely, that a single attractive woman (she is obviously playing a mature young woman - not a teenager or young girl), would go off for a week of fun in the snow with two men.
Of course, the language barrier aspect was needed in this film to get the one funny situation with the waiter who knew a bunch of English words but not how to use them to make sense. The film was made in 1937, and most upscale restaurants in Paris would have had English- speaking waiters and maître d's then. Their English cousins across the Channel would have been going to Paris for decades to vacation, shop, do business or for entertainment. And, since WWI especially, many Americans would be traveling to "gay Paree" for the same reasons. But then, maybe that was another subtle funny of the film - since it was the American Restaurant.
Claudette Colbert is the focus of the triangle, and her two main suitors vying for her affections are wonderfully played by Melvyn Douglas and Robert Young. The humor comes mostly in the sparring between the two competitors.
"I Met Him in Paris" isn't one of the wittier comedy romances that Colbert made; but it has its occasional clever or really goofy line that will cause a laugh. Kay (Colbert) is a New York fashion designer who has been saving and planning a three-week trip to Paris for five years.
Early in the movie after her arrival in Paris, she goes into the American Restaurant in the high-class hotel where she's staying. She asks the maître d' if he speaks English, and he calls for a particular waiter. The waiter's line floors Kay: "Madam. You have the ask to wish for me you pleasure." After Kay's recovery and a couple questions about his English, he says he learned English from a Japanese house boy from America.
Later, after she has met George (Douglas) and Gene (Young), she dances with George who is admittedly a terrible dancer. As they walk back to their table, George says, "Did I do that?" Kay says, "Oh, no. I was limping when I came in."
The best humor, and most of it in this film, comes from a number of escapades. The trio leaves Paris for Switzerland, with George to act as chaperon of Gene and Kay. There is a nice long scene of Kay and George ice skating. Another long humorous adventure has Kay and Gene skiing downhill. A third has all three of them bobsledding.
Naturally, with all this winter activity, the film has some beautiful scenery. The outdoor stuff was shot at Sun Valley, Idaho, with scenes that could pass for the Swiss Alps.
I mentioned that the plot was pretty far-fetched; but one must remember that the majority of people were very proper with relationships in that time. So, it's conceivable, but not very likely, that a single attractive woman (she is obviously playing a mature young woman - not a teenager or young girl), would go off for a week of fun in the snow with two men.
Of course, the language barrier aspect was needed in this film to get the one funny situation with the waiter who knew a bunch of English words but not how to use them to make sense. The film was made in 1937, and most upscale restaurants in Paris would have had English- speaking waiters and maître d's then. Their English cousins across the Channel would have been going to Paris for decades to vacation, shop, do business or for entertainment. And, since WWI especially, many Americans would be traveling to "gay Paree" for the same reasons. But then, maybe that was another subtle funny of the film - since it was the American Restaurant.