Paris Blues is a 1961 American feature film. It stars Sidney Poitier as expatriate jazz musician Eddie Cook, and Paul Newman as trombone-playing Ram Bowen romance two vacationing American tourists: Connie Lampson (Diahann Carroll) and Lillian Corning (Joanne Woodward). The film was produced by Sam Shaw and directed by Martin Ritt. Paris Blues was released in the U.S. on September 27,1961.
llian Corning: I want to give you a going away present. You may not like it, but I don't care. It's just this: you're never going to forget me. You're going to walk down the streets wherever you happen to be and you're going to see me, whether you want to or not. No one's ever going to be as right for you as I am. Twelve days in Paris.
m Bowen: This romance is doomed. llian Corning: Why? m Bowen: We get up too early.
m Bowen: You just do everything I say, don't you? llian Corning: No, I wanted to stay. m Bowen: You're a nut. I ain't getting involved with no nut!
llian Corning: You know, everybody's always waiting for everybody else to take a chance because they're so afraid!
