Rich, Young and Pretty (1951) Online
Jim Stauton Rogers, a Texas rancher turned international diplomat, take his young daughter, Elizabeth Rogers, on a trip to Paris. He is concerned that his daughter might come in contact with her mother, Marie Devarone, a Parisian singer he met and loved more than twenty-five years ago.
| Complete credited cast: | |||
 | Jane Powell | - | Elizabeth Rogers |
 | Danielle Darrieux | - | Marie Devarone |
 | Wendell Corey | - | Jim Stauton Rogers |
 | Vic Damone | - | Andre Milan |
 | Fernando Lamas | - | Paul Sarnac |
 | Marcel Dalio | - | Claude Duval |
 | Una Merkel | - | Glynnie |
 | Richard Anderson | - | Bob Lennart |
 | Jean Murat | - | Monsieur Henri Milan |
 | Duci De Kerekjarto | - | Gypsy Leader (as Duci deKerekjarto) |
 | Hans Conried | - | Jean - Maitre D' |
| George Tatar | - | Hungarian Dancer |
| Katrin Tatar | - | Hungarian Dancer |
| Monique Chantal | - | Maid |
 | Four Freshmen | - | Singing Quartette (as 'Four Freshmen' Quartette) |
Danielle Darrieux returned to Hollywood to make this film after several years in Europe. She plays a woman who left her family in the US to live in Europe.
Jane Powell was pregnant during the filming of this movie.
Because of Vic Damone's contract with Mercury Records, he was not heard on the MGM Records soundtrack album. Consequently, two Damone-Jane Powell ballads from the Nicholas Brodszky-Sammy Cahn score - the Oscar-nominated "Wonder Why," also "I Can See You" - were rerecorded by both singers for their respective labels. In addition, Mercury issued a disc of "How D'Ya Like Your Eggs in the Morning?" featuring Mr. Damone with The Pied Pipers. In the film, Vic sang this sprightly ditty with Miss Powell and The Four Freshmen. Their soundtrack recording is among the "Romantic Duets From MGM Classics," released on CD by Rhino. A fourth Powell-Damone match-up (and also a Danielle Darrieux-Fernando Lamas teaming in the film), a cozy strain called "We Never Talk Much (We Just Sit Around)," was redone by Miss Powell with male voices on an MGM Records single. The flip side had Jane performing a number sung and danced by Miss Darrieux' in the picture, "L'Amour Toujours (Tonight for Sure)." "Wonder Why," the Powell-Damone rendition plus Jane's solo version, along with her three other commercial takes, can be encountered on a CD named "A Heart That's Free," issued by Flare, a British label.
Film debuts of Vic Damone and Fernando Lamas.
This film managed a small profit of $54,000 ($504,000 in 2017) for MGM according to studio records.
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