Three Weeks in Paris

1925 film by Roy Del Ruth

December 5, 1925 (1925-12-05)

Running time

6 reels (approximately 60 minutes)CountryUnited StatesLanguagesilent (English intertitles)

Three Weeks in Paris is a 1925 American silent comedy film from Warner Bros. starring Matt Moore and Dorothy Devore.^[1]

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,^[2] Oswald Bates is getting married, but the wedding day has many bad omens as the date is Friday the thirteenth, a black cat crosses his path, and he breaks a mirror. After the wedding, just after he and his bride Mary leave the church, he is separated from her and gets a telegram which compels him to sail for Paris within the hour to complete a business deal. Although he tries, he is unsuccessful and leaves France without completing the deal. However, Oswald has been reported dead to Mary and she collects on the life insurance. Therefore, Oswald is forced to assume a disguise during his trip back home. Matters are complicated by a detective on board the ship and seas that cause many to become seasick. Just as he is reunited with Mary, the overseas deal is unexpectedly completed and provides the money which can repay the insurance so the couple can any avoid jail sentence.

Cast

Matt Moore as Oswald Bates
Dorothy Devore as Mary Brown
Willard Louis as Gus Billikins
Helen Lynch as Dolly Withers
Gayne Whitman as Duke Laporte
John Patrick as Bruce Gordon
Frank Bond as Alex Darrows
Rosa Gore as Mrs. Brown

Preservation

With no prints of Three Weeks in Paris located in any film archives,^[3] it is a lost film.^[4]

References

^ "AFI listing". www.afi.com.
^ "Three Weeks in Paris". The Film Daily. 36 (68). New York City: Wid's Films and Film Folks, Inc.: 11 June 20, 1926. Retrieved November 6, 2023. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
^ "Three Weeks In Paris". lcweb2.loc.gov. April 16, 2018.
^ "Lost Film Files - Warner". www.silentsaregolden.com.

External links

Three Weeks in Paris at IMDb

Films directed by Roy Del Ruth

The Cat's Meow (1924)
Eve's Lover (1925)
Three Weeks in Paris (1925)
Hogan's Alley (1925)
The Man Upstairs (1926)
The Little Irish Girl (1926)
Footloose Widows (1926)
Across the Pacific (1926)
Wolf's Clothing (1927)
The First Auto (1927)
If I Were Single (1927)
Ham and Eggs at the Front (1927)
Powder My Back (1928)
Conquest (1928)
Five and Ten Cent Annie (1928)
The Terror (1928)
Beware of Bachelors (1928)
The Desert Song (1929)
The Hottentot (1929)
Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929)
The Aviator (1929)
Hold Everything (1930)
The Second Floor Mystery (1930)
Three Faces East (1930)
The Life of the Party (1930)
Divorce Among Friends (1930)
My Past (1931)
The Maltese Falcon (1931)
Side Show (1931)
Blonde Crazy (1931)
Taxi! (1932)
Winner Take All (1932)
Blessed Event (1932)
Beauty and the Boss (1932)
The Mind Reader (1933)
Employees' Entrance (1933)
The Little Giant (1933)
Captured! (1933)
Bureau of Missing Persons (1933)
Lady Killer (1933)
Upper World (1934)
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934)
Kid Millions (1934)
Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)
Folies Bergère de Paris (1935)
Thanks a Million (1935)
Private Number (1936)
It Had to Happen (1936)
Born to Dance (1936)
On the Avenue (1937)
Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)
Happy Landing (1938)
My Lucky Star (1938)
Tail Spin (1939)
The Star Maker (1939)
Here I Am a Stranger (1939)
He Married His Wife (1940)
Topper Returns (1941)
The Chocolate Soldier (1941)
Maisie Gets Her Man (1942)
DuBarry Was a Lady (1943)
Broadway Rhythm (1944)
Barbary Coast Gent (1944)
It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947)
The Babe Ruth Story (1948)
Red Light (1949)
Always Leave Them Laughing (1949)
The West Point Story (1950)
On Moonlight Bay (1951)
Starlift (1951)
About Face (1952)
Stop, You're Killing Me (1952)
Three Sailors and a Girl (1953)
Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954)
The Alligator People (1959)
Why Must I Die? (1960)

Darryl F. Zanuck

Producer

Old San Francisco (1927)
The First Auto (1927)
The Jazz Singer (1927)
Tenderloin (1928)
The Show of Shows (1929)
Three Faces East (1930)
The Doorway to Hell (1931)
Little Caesar (1931)
Illicit (1931)
The Public Enemy (1931)
The Man Who Played God (1932)
The Rich Are Always with Us (1932)
Doctor X (1932)
Life Begins (1932)
The Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
Three on a Match (1932)
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
Parachute Jumper (1933)
42nd Street (1933)
The Working Man (1933)
Ex-Lady (1933)
The Bowery (1933)
Blood Money (1933)
Moulin Rouge (1934)
Looking for Trouble (1934)
Born to Be Bad (1934)
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934)
The Mighty Barnum (1934)
Folies Bergère de Paris (1935)
Les Misérables (1935)
Cardinal Richelieu (1935)
Call of the Wild (1935)
Metropolitan (1935)
Thanks a Million (1935)
The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (1935)
Professional Soldier (1935)
The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
It Had to Happen (1936)
A Message to Garcia (1936)
Under Two Flags (1936)
The Road to Glory (1936)
Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)
Sing, Baby, Sing (1936)
Pigskin Parade (1936)
Seventh Heaven (1937)
Slave Ship (1937)
Wee Willie Winkie (1937)
Wake Up and Live (1937)
Thin Ice (1937)
Lancer Spy (1937)
In Old Chicago (1938)
Happy Landing (1938)
International Settlement (1938)
Kentucky Moonshine
Always Goodbye (1938)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)
Just Around the Corner (1938)
Little Miss Broadway (1938)
My Lucky Star (1938)
Submarine Patrol (1938)
Jesse James (1939)
Tail Spin (1939)
Wife, Husband and Friend (1939)
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
Rose of Washington Square (1939)
Stanley and Livingstone (1939)
The Rains Came (1939)
Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
Swanee River (1939)
The Little Princess (1939)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Little Old New York (1940)
The Man I Married (1940)
The Return of Frank James (1940)
The Great Profile (1940)
Brigham Young (1940)
Down Argentine Way (1940)
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Hudson's Bay (1941)
Tobacco Road (1941)
The Great American Broadcast (1941)
Blood and Sand (1941)
A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941)
How Green Was My Valley (1942)
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942)
Sex Hygiene (Short) (1942)
To the Shores of Tripoli (1942)
This Above All (1942)
Thunder Birds (1942)
The Purple Heart (1944)
Wilson (1944)
Winged Victory (1944)
The Razor's Edge (1946)
Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
Fury at Furnace Creek (1948)
The Snake Pit (1948)
Pinky (1949)
Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
No Way Out (1950)
All About Eve (1950)
David and Bathsheba (1951)
People Will Talk (1951)
Viva Zapata! (1952)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
The Egyptian (1954)
The View from Pompey's Head (1955)
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
Island in the Sun (1957)
The Sun Also Rises (1957)
The Roots of Heaven (1958)
Crack in the Mirror (1960)
Sanctuary (1961)
The Big Gamble (1961)
The Longest Day (1962)
The Chapman Report (1962)
The Visit (1964)

Writer

as Mark Canfield	The Desired Woman (1927) (story) Maybe It's Love (1930) Baby Face (1933) (story) Crack in the Mirror (1960)
as Melville Crossman	Tenderloin (story) (1928) State Street Sadie (story) (1928) Thanks a Million (story) (1935) A Yank in the R.A.F. (story) (1941) Thunder Birds (original story) (1942) China Girl (story) (1942) The Purple Heart (story) (1944)
as Gregory Rogers	Find Your Man (Rin Tin Tin story) (1924) The Lighthouse by the Sea (Rin Tin Tin story) (1924) Three Weeks in Paris (story, screenplay as Darryl Zanuck) (1925) The Midnight Taxi (story) (1928)
as self	A Broadway Butterfly (1925) Red Hot Tires (1925) Hogan's Alley (1925) The Caveman (scenario) (1926) The Little Irish Girl (adaptation) (1926) The Social Highwayman (1926) Footloose Widows (1926) Across the Pacific (adaptation) (1926) The Better 'Ole (screenplay) (1926) Tracked by the Police (Rin Tin Tin story) (1927) Old San Francisco (1927) The First Auto (story) (1927) Good Time Charley (story) (1927) Noah's Ark (story) (1928) My Man (story) (1928) Hardboiled Rose (story) (1929) Madonna of Avenue A (story) (1929) Say It with Songs (story) (1929) The Life of the Party (1930) Little Caesar (story – uncredited) (1931) The Dark Horse (story) (1932) Lady Killer (story – uncredited) (1933) Folies Bergère de Paris (contributing writer – uncredited) (1935) G Men (story) (1935) This Is My Affair (story – uncredited) (1937) Alexander's Ragtime Band (contributing writer – uncredited) (1938) The Great Profile (story – uncredited) (1940) Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942)