History Film / ParisWhenItSizzles

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A 1964 romantic comedy film directed by Richard Quine and reuniting its stars Creator/AudreyHepburn and Creator/WilliamHolden, a decade on from ''Film/{{Sabrina|1954}}''.

Holden plays Richard Benson, a screenwriter who's been living it up in GayParee and now finds himself facing a deadline to complete a script for ''The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower''. Which he hasn't even started. He hires an agency typist, Gabrielle Simpson (Hepburn), to assist him, and over 48 hours they hash out a script and fall in love. As they do so, we see the film they write together, which is a ludicrous romp throwing together and sending up every movie cliche you can think of.

* MarySue: In universe. Likewise, "Gabby" is obviously one of these for Gabrielle.

Holden plays Richard Benson, a screenwriter who's been living it up in GayParee and now finds himself up against against a deadline to complete a script for ''The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower''. Which he hasn't even started. He hires an agency typist, Gabrielle Simpson (Hepburn), to assist him, and over 48 hours they hash out a script and fall in love. As they do so, we see the film they write together, which is a ludicrous romp throwing together and sending up every movie cliche you can think of.

Holden plays Richard Benson, a screenwriter up against a deadline to complete a script for ''The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower''. Which he hasn't even started. He hires an agency typist, Gabrielle Simpson (Hepburn), to assist him, and over 48 hours they hash out a script and fall in love. As they do so, we see the film they write together, which is a ludicrous romp throwing together and sending up every movie cliche you can think of.

Holden plays Richard Benson, a screenwriter up against a deadline to complete a script for ''The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower''. Which he hasn't even started. He hires an agency typist, Gabrielle Simpson (Hepburn) to assist him, and over 48 hours they hash out a script and fall in love. As they do so, we see the film they write together, which is a ludicrous romp throwing together and sending up every movie cliche you can think of.

A 1964 romantic comedy film directed by Richard Quine and reuniting its stars Creator/AudreyHepburn and Creator/WilliamHolden, a decade on from ''Film/{{Sabrina|1954}}''. Holden plays Richard Benson, a screenwriter up against a deadline to complete a script for ''The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower''. Which he hasn't even started. He hires an agency typist, Gabrielle Simpson (Hepburn) to assist him, and over 48 hours they hash out a script and fall in love. As they do so, we see the film they write together, which is a ludicrous romp throwing together and sending up every movie cliche you can think of.

* FantasticRankSystem: Throughout ''The Girl who Stole the Eiffel Tower'', Tony Curtis' character is put in his place by being told that if this were a film, he'd be a bit-player called "Second Police Officer". At the end, he is promoted to "First Police Officer", which in the film is an actual rank and causes everyone who'd previously mocked him to start treating him with respect.

* GenreShift: In-universe; when Gabrielle takes over writing the film, it swiftly changes from a spy drama to a vampire horror, to a western, to a sports movie, to a war movie. At which point, Richard steps in, pointing out that she's drunk and should really go to bed.

* MartyStu: In universe. "Rick" in ''The Girl who Stole the Eiffel Tower'' is blatantly an idealized version of Richard.

* GenreShift: When Gabrielle takes over writing the film, it swiftly changes from a spy drama to a vampire horror, to a western, to a sports movie, to a war movie. At which point, Richard steps in, pointing out that she's drunk and should really go to bed.

A 1964 romantic comedy film directed by Richard Quine and reuniting it’s stars Creator/AudreyHepburn and Creator/WilliamHolden, a decade on from ''Film/{{Sabrina|1954}}''. Holden plays Richard Benson, a screenwriter up against a deadline to complete a script for ''The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower''. Which he hasn't even started. He hires an agency typist, Gabrielle Simpson (Hepburn) to assist him, and over 48 hours they hash out a script and fall in love. As they do so, we see the film they write together, which is a ludicrous romp throwing together and sending up every movie cliche you can think of.

A 1964 romantic comedy film directed by Richard Quine, reuniting Creator/AudreyHepburn and Creator/WilliamHolden, a decade on from ''Film/{{Sabrina|1954}}''. Holden plays Richard Benson, a screenwriter up against a deadline to complete a script for ''The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower''. Which he hasn't even started. He hires an agency typist, Gabrielle Simpson (Hepburn) to assist him, and over 48 hours they hash out a script and fall in love. As they do so, we see the film they write together, which is a ludicrous romp throwing together and sending up every movie cliche you can think of.

1964 romantic comedy film reuniting Creator/AudreyHepburn and Creator/WilliamHolden, a decade on from ''Film/{{Sabrina|1954}}''. Holden plays Richard Benson, a screenwriter up against a deadline to complete a script for ''The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower''. Which he hasn't even started. He hires an agency typist, Gabrielle Simpson (Hepburn) to assist him, and over 48 hours they hash out a script and fall in love. As they do so, we see the film they write together, which is a ludicrous romp throwing together and sending up every movie cliche you can think of.

1964 romantic comedy film reuniting Creator/AudreyHepburn and Creator/WilliamHolden, a decade on from ''[[Film/Sabrina1954 Sabrina]]''. Holden plays Richard Benson, a screenwriter up against a deadline to complete a script for ''The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower''. Which he hasn't even started. He hires an agency typist, Gabrielle Simpson (Hepburn) to assist him, and over 48 hours they hash out a script and fall in love. As they do so, we see the film they write together, which is a ludicrous romp throwing together and sending up every movie cliche you can think of.

!Tropes in ''Paris When it Sizzles'':

* TakeThat: There are plenty of jabs at "new wave" cinema, starting with Gabrielle's description of a film called ''The Scrabble Game Will Not Take Place'', and carried through Tony Curtis' recurring cameo as a new wave actor playing a cop.
* {{Troperiffic}}: The film-within-the-film takes every movie trope they could think of and runs with it. Some others are discussed along the way too.

* GenreSavvy: Both played straight and deconstructed. Years of writing screenplays have left Richard seeing everything in terms of movie tropes.

1964 romantic comedy film reuniting Creator/AudreyHepburn and Creator/WilliamHolden, a decade on from ''Film/{{Sabrina}}''. Holden plays Richard Benson, a screenwriter up against a deadline to complete a script for ''The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower''. Which he hasn't even started. He hires an agency typist, Gabrielle Simpson (Hepburn) to assist him, and over 48 hours they hash out a script and fall in love. As they do so, we see the film they write together, which is a ludicrous romp throwing together and sending up every movie cliche you can think of.

1964 romantic comedy film reuniting Creator/AudreyHepburn and William Holden, a decade on from ''Film/{{Sabrina}}''. Holden plays Richard Benson, a screenwriter up against a deadline to complete a script for ''The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower''. Which he hasn't even started. He hires an agency typist, Gabrielle Simpson (Hepburn) to assist him, and over 48 hours they hash out a script and fall in love. As they do so, we see the film they write together, which is a ludicrous romp throwing together and sending up every movie cliche you can think of.

1964 romantic comedy film reuniting Creator/AudreyHepburn and William Holden, a decade on from ''Film/{{Sabrina}}''. Holden plays Richard Benson, a screenwriter up against a deadline to complete a script for ''The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower''. He hires an agency typist, Gabrielle Simpson (Hepburn) to assist him, and over 48 hours they hash out a script and fall in love. As they do so, we see the film they write together, which is a ludicrous romp throwing together and sending up every movie cliche you can think of.

1964 romantic comedy film reuniting Creator/AudreyHepburn and William Holden, a decade on from ''Film/{{Sabrina}}''. Holden plays Richard Benson, a screenwriter up against a deadline to complete a script for ''The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower''. He hires an agency typist, Gabrielle Simpson (Hepburn) to assist himm, and over 48 hours they hash out a script and fall in love. As they do so, we see the film they write together, which is a ludicrous romp throwing together and sending up every movie cliche you can think of.

1964 romantic comedy film reuniting Creator/AudreyHepburn and William Holden, a decade on from ''Film/{{Sabrina}}''. Holden plays Richard Benson, a screenwriter up against a deadline to complete a script for ''The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower''. He hires an agency typist, Gabrielle Simpson (Hepburn) to assist himm, and over 48 hours they hash out a script and fall in love. As they do so, we see the film they write together, which is a ludicrous romp throwing together every movie cliche you can think of.

* OnlyALighter: In ''The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower'', Gabby pulls a gun on Rick, who responds by making a great show of pulling and twirling what is implied to be a gun, too, but turns out to be an ordinary lighter. Whereupon Gabby reveals that her "gun" is actually a lighter too, and they light each other's cigarettes.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: In the vampire sequence, there is no effort put into making the bats realistic.

* Troperiffic: The film-within-the-film takes every movie trope they could think of and runs with it. Some others are discussed along the way too.