Film Adaptations
Fifty Million Frenchmen, directed by Lloyd Bacon and filmed entirely in Technicolor, was released in 1931 by Warner Bros. The cast included Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, William Gaxton, Helen Broderick, John Halliday, Claudia Dell, Lester Crawford, and Evalyn Knapp. The songs were omitted from the 1931 film, because the public had tired of musicals.
In 1934, a two-reeler entitled Paree, Paree was made from the musical, and this version included several the songs "You Do Something to Me," "Paree, What Did You Do To Me?," "Find Me a Primitive Man," and "You've Got That Thing." The film starred Bob Hope in the William Gaxton role.
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