Because of an error with the Roman numerals in the copyright notice on the prints, this movie was legally copyrighted in 1944, not 1954. The copyright was not renewed by MGM as it expired ten years earlier than the copyright office records indicated (in eighteen years versus twenty-eight years). At this time it was the copyright notice and date on the film prints that counted legally, so this movie entered the public domain in 1972.
One of a handful of MGM productions of the early 1950s whose original copyrights were never renewed and are now in the public domain. For this reason, this title is now offered, often in very inferior copies at bargain prices, by numerous VHS and DVD distributors, who do not normally handle copyrighted or MGM material.
Sandy Descher, seen here as Van Johnson's precocious, ballet-dancing daughter, is best remembered for one of her other roles: She played the little girl found wandering in the desert who spoke the immortal line "Them!" at the beginning of the science-fiction classic about giant ants, Them! (1954).
The "mystery challenger" on season six, episode ten of What's My Line? (1950) was Dame Elizabeth Taylor, the star of this movie. She was asked why this movie was renamed. She replied that the studio was afraid audiences would assume that a movie titled "Babylon Revisited" was about Biblical subject matters.
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By what name was The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) officially released in India in English?
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