I Met Him in Paris (1937)

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Good movie but grossly overrated

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Claudette Colbert stars with Robert Young and Melvyn Douglas in "I Met Him in Paris" from 1937. The beautiful Colbert, as Kay Denham, is en route to Paris via ship, and it's her dream trip, her trip of a lifetime. She can't get her fiancé (Lee Bowman) out her stateroom fast enough. Ah, Paree.We next see her miserable face when she's been in Paris for three days. She's realizing that she should not have come alone, and no one speaks English. Worse than all of that, no one has written to her. I lived in Europe and it's hard when you don't get mail.Then, in the American Bar of the hotel, she meets two men, George Potter (Douglas) and Gene Anders (Young). They start spending time together, and while she likes Gene, she's not so sure about Potter.The fact is, Potter disapproves of Anders. We soon learn why. When Anders invites Kay to Switzerland, Potter insists on coming along as chaperon. I would say the film picks up once they reach Switzerland, because some of the scenes where they try different sports were hilarious. My favorite is when Kay falls off a luge and she's trying to get off the track, but the walls are curved and slick -- and another luge is coming. It was hysterical. They try another activity where they are on skis behind horses and each person holds the reins of their horse as the horses are galloping and they are screaming "Whoa!" They also ice skate and ski.Directed by Wesley Ruggles, the film doesn't have any pace or much humor, again, until they reach Switzerland, and it's based on kind of a dumb premise. If Potter disapproves of Gene, why doesn't he tell Kay why? Why would he agree to go along as Gene tries to romance Kay?Screwball comedies were on their way out when this was made, though there would still be some good ones, Bringing Up Baby and Merrily We Live coming to mind. They would find new life later on television. Unfortunately this falls short, despite a wonderful cast and beautiful scenery.

Claudette Colbert saved and scrimped for a trip to Paris just for her own little self. Even beau Lee Bowman can't talk her out of it. It's not that he's not happy for her or begrudging her well-deserved trip, but he feels anything can happen to her without him there. Though just why he's not going, I don't remember or understand. She goes, meets a waiter who speaks funny English, a French masher, and Robert Young and Melvyn Douglas who rescue her from the masher. But Bob came to her rescue first. The two men are supposedly friends, because they hang out together, but they don't act like it with their constant ribbing and competitiveness over Claudette. For such a good cast, it's hard to describe just how really bad this film is. There's no pace, no laughs, no anything. Just talking, and they're constantly bickering, and Claudette bad-mouths the other guy to the one she's with at the time. This was a total disappointment for all concerned, including director Wesley Ruggles. And, frankly, it's one of the worst old movies I've seen in a long time. Poor Claudette! Who cares who she picked! Stay away from this picture.

In a variation of Noel Coward's "Design For Living" (minus the sex), this so-called romantic comedy focuses on an American girl (Claudette Colbert) who has saved money for years to take a trip to Paris where she is approached by playboy Robert Young and agrees to travel with him and his friend Melvyn Douglas to Switzerland, albeit "platonically". Even though she has shared a kiss with Young, it is apparent her only motive is to have fun, not find love. Douglas is his rather dour friend who acts as "chaperone", which causes her to explode at him in frustration over his too serious attitude towards their trip. He reveals a softer side to her, and from there, she begins to spend half her time with one, and half with the other. Each one tries to outdo the other in an effort to spend time with her and win her affections.Only part of the first quarter and part of the conclusion actually take place in Paris; More than 50% of the film takes place in Switzerland. The film's energy comes and goes, and when it does (particularly a scene on a speeding toboggan and later a skiing sequence), it is fully alive. But the majority of the time, it lays there, flat as Douglas's personality throughout most of the film. Even with some great art decco sets and breathtaking snowy scenery, it is not as amusing as it should have been. For the most part, comedies set in snowy settings (such as "Snowed Under", "The Goose and the Gander" and "Petticoat Fever") are rather mediocre; Snow seems to do better with action or adventure ("Island in the Sky", "Mrs. Mike"). Wesley Ruggles, while a fine director, was not as adept as Ernst Lubitsh, Preston Sturges or Mitchell Leissen when it came to romantic comedy. Ironically, Douglas would end up skiing in another romantic comedy several years later with someone named Garbo. Fritz Feld is amusing as a Franklin Pangborn like hotel clerk. But with the film long on talk and short on humor, it sadly misses the mark.

I Met Him in Paris (Wesley Ruggles, 1937) is a pleasant little romantic comedy that keeps threatening to turn into a more interesting, adult film, but never really explains its central tenet: why sourpuss Melvyn Douglas must chaperone young lovers Claudette Colbert and Robert Young on their sojourn from Gay Paree to snowy Switzerland. In addition, the Paris setting isn't effectively utilised - presumably it was just a suitably exotic spot for Colbert to be romanced as well as a nice hook for the title - while the Swiss one brings largely slapstick peril. But the leads were consummate performers capable of lifting the most unpromising material and they make a good fist of it here. Lee Bowman is fun in support as Colbert's "trusting" suitor, in a David Niven-like turn. The snowbound scenes were shot at Sun Valley, Idaho, the setting for Fox's hit musical Sun Valley Serenade. The ending, with three men squabbling over the lead, was later borrowed for the Jean Arthur film The Lady Takes a Chance.