Paris Smiles
1966


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Highlights
  • Written for the 1966 Paramount Pictures film Paris brûle-tl-il?, later released in North America as Is Paris Burning?, starring Kirk Doulas, Glenn Ford, Gert Fröbe, Orson Welles, Anthony Perkins, Robert Stack, Charles Boyer, Yves Montand, Leslie Caron, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Simone Signoret and Alain Delon.
  • In this sprawling, star-laden film, we see the struggles of various French resistance factions to regain control of Paris near the end of WWII.
  • The film is based on the best-selling book by the same name by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre and was directed by René Clément, from a screenplay by Gore Vidal and Francis Ford Coppola.
  • The film was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography.

WRITTEN BY RAY EVANS & JAY LIVINGSTON, MUSIC BY MAURICE JARRE
COPYRIGHT 1966


Recording History
The Mystic Moods Orchestra
Mel Torme, The Great American Composers, Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, Columbia House, 8651
Lyrics

Paris smiles and the world is young,
In a million hearts bells are ringing
Paris weeps and the world is old,
From a million lips, there’s no singing.

Paris greets the morning
With a flower in her hair
Paris in the evening
Sings a love song everywhere.

Once you’ve danced under Paris skies
You have left your heart in her keeping
Once you’ve known every sweet surprise
You will feel her joys in her weeping

Paris, friend and lover
You were so lighthearted then
Someday I’ll discover
Paris smiling once again.

Paris, friend and lover
You were so lighthearted then
Someday I’ll discover
Paris smiling once again.

 
PARIS SMILES From the 1966 Paramount Pictures film Is Paris Burning?. Famous Music Corporation, 1966. Words by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, Music by Maurice Jarre (Transcribed Lyrics)