The Dressmaker from Paris

{{Infobox film

| name = The Dressmaker from Paris

| image = Dressmaker From Paris poster.jpg

| caption = Film poster

| director = Paul Bern

| producer = Adolph Zukor
Jesse Lasky
Cecil B. DeMille

| writer =

| screenplay = Adelaide Heilbron

| story = Howard Hawks
Adelaide Heilbron

| starring = Leatrice Joy

| music =

| cinematography =

| editing =

| distributor = Paramount Pictures

| released = {{Film date|1925|03|30|U.S.}}

| runtime = 80 minutes

| country = United States

| language = Silent (English intertitles)

}}

The Dressmaker from Paris is a 1925 American silent romantic comedy drama film directed by Paul Bern. The story was written by Howard Hawks and Adelaide Heilbron. Heilbron also wrote the screenplay. The film starred Leatrice Joy and was her last film for Paramount Pictures. The film was costume designer Travis Banton's first assignment.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/D/DressmakerFromParis1925.html Progressive Silent Film List: The Dressmaker from Paris] at silentera.com[http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=3849 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: The Dressmaker from Paris]. {{Archive url|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140607010837/http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=3849|date=2014-06-07}}

Plot

As described in a film magazine review,{{Citation |title=New Pictures: The Dressmaker from Paris |journal=Exhibitors Herald |volume=21 |issue=3 |pages=44 |date=11 April 1925 |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibitorsherald21unse/page/n260/mode/1up |access-date=9 January 2022}} {{Source-attribution}} an American soldier billeted in Paris meets a student of fashion design. She falls in love with him. Back in America, for the purpose of exhibiting recent fashions, she is brought to the small town in which he manages a department store. Her mannequins accompany her. She surprises him and their romance continues.

Cast

{{Cast listing|

Leatrice Joy as Fifi
Ernest Torrence as Angus McGregor
Allan Forrest as Billy Brent
Mildred Harris as Joan McGregor
Lawrence Gray as Allan Stone
Charles Crockett as Mayor
Rosemary Cooper as Mayor's Daughter
Spec O'Donnell as Jim
Olive Borden as Mannequin (uncredited)
Majel Coleman as Mannequin (uncredited)
Yola d'Avril as Mannequin (uncredited)
Cecille Evans as Mannequin (uncredited)
Eugenia Gilbert as Mannequin (uncredited)
Betsy Ann Hisle as Mannequin (uncredited)
Anastasia Georgina Kissel as Mannequin (uncredited)
Etta Lee as Mannequin (uncredited)
Jocelyn Lee as Mannequin (uncredited)
Sally Long as Mannequin (uncredited)
Adalyn Mayer as Mannequin (uncredited)
Christina Montt as Mannequin (uncredited)
Clara Morris as Mannequin (uncredited)
Sally Rand as Mannequin (uncredited)
Dorothy Seastrom as Mannequin (uncredited)

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Production

Director Paul Bern has his girlfriend Olive Borden in a small role as one of the models.[http://oliveborden1947.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-dressmaker-from-paris-lost-film.html The Dressmaker from Paris at Olive Borden]. {{Archive url|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180626083126/http://oliveborden1947.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-dressmaker-from-paris-lost-film.html|date=2018-06-26}} This was Leatrice Joy's last silent film for Paramount. Afterwards, she followed Cecil DeMille to his PDC arrangement production company, which released through the Pathé Exchange company.

Preservation

With no prints of The Dressmaker from Paris located in any film archives,[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.4898/default.html The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Dressmaker from Paris] it is a lost film.[http://www.silentsaregolden.com/arneparamountpictures.html The Dressmaker from Paris at Arne Andersen's Lost Film Files:Paramount Pictures 1925]