Cole Porter 6. Victor Borge 11. Zizi Jeanmaire 13. In the film the girl was engaged to a businessman played by a French stage and film star of the 1940s called Georges Guetary. A lot of the film is set in Montmartre and the story is about an artist.
Some steps figure a great deal in the film.
The hero is nostalgic for an earlier Paris when it was the city of artists. Until the mid 1950s Paris was rather shabby and recovering from the war. During the ballet, scenes of Paris are represented in such a way as to make them resemble paintings by impressionists and post impresionists painters.