Elizabeth Taylor
Helen Ellswirth Wills
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Synopsis
A journalist meets an exuberant young woman in Paris during the celebrations at the end of the war. Their romance grows within a family accustomed to pursuing pleasure despite uncertain finances. Marriage, frustrated literary ambition and changing fortunes gradually alter the life they expected to share in the city.
Cast
DirectorsRichard Brooks
Inspirations
F. Scott Fitzgerald's Babylon Revisited is the starting point, but the film relocates its atmosphere from the aftermath of the 1920s to postwar Paris. It also recasts the central man as an aspiring writer, substantially reshaping the story's social setting.
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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.
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Availability checked on September 10, 2026.
Photograph credit
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- Elizabeth Taylor — Studio publicity still · Public domain
- Van Johnson — Photographer: Eric Carpenter (1909–1976) · Public domain
- Walter Pidgeon — CBS Television (photographer unknown) · Public domain
- Donna Reed — Unknown author Unknown author · Public domain
