| The Dressmaker from Paris | |
| Director: | Paul Bern |
| Producer: | Adolph Zukor Jesse Lasky Cecil B. DeMille |
| Screenplay: | Adelaide Heilbron |
| Story: | Howard Hawks Adelaide Heilbron |
| Starring: | Leatrice Joy |
| Distributor: | Paramount Pictures |
| 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.[1] [2]
As described in a film magazine review, 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.
Director Paul Bern has his girlfriend Olive Borden in a small role as one of the models.[3] 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.
With no prints of The Dressmaker from Paris located in any film archives,[4] it is a lost film.[5]