The Last Time I Saw Paris is a 1954 romantic drama made by MGM, loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald 's short story Babylon Revisited. It was directed by Richard Brooks and produced by Jack Cummings. The screenplay was by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Richard Brooks.The film starred Elizabeth Taylor and Van Johnson, with Walter Pidgeon, Donna Reed, Eva Gabor, Kurt Kasznar, George Dolenz and Roger Moore.The film's title song "The Last Time I Saw Paris" was composed by Oscar Hammerstein II and Jerome Kern and, although the song was not written explicitly for the movie (used in Lady Be Good), it was featured prominently throughout the flim and can be heard in many scenes, either being sung or being played as an instrumental.The film is currently in the public domain.