The Last Time I Saw Paris (song)

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The Last Time I Saw Paris is a composition by Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern from 1941.

The song was written for the film Lady Be Good (1941) and won an Oscar in 1942 in the category "Best Song" . The composition was then revisited in a 1954 film of the same title based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald entitled Babylon Revisited . The main roles were cast with Elizabeth Taylor and the young Van Johnson . The song runs through the entire film as the theme and motif.

A jazz standard was The Last Time I Saw Paris by the version of Sonny Rollins on his album The Sound Of Sonny of the 1957th

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