Elizabeth Taylor at the height of her beauty is the main attraction in this lavish MGM love story based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel Babylon Revisited. Van Johnson stars as an American G.I., Charles Wills, at the end of the German Occupation of Paris, who falls in love with Helen Ellswirth (Taylor), an American living in Paris with her father James Ellswirth (Walter Pidgeon) and sister, Marie Ellsworth (Donna Reed). The love story is told in flashback, beginning in the present with Charles revisiting Paris to try to get custody of his daughter, Vicki, and to relive past memories of his beloved wife. We see that he was very much in love with Helen, but had let the frustration of not getting his novels published spill over into his marriage. Tragically, Helen dies due to his negligence and Marie gets custody of Vicki by petitioning the court that he is an unfit parent. Now, back in the present, he must beg for Marie’s mercy, but she won’t relent. When her husband chastises Marie for the love which he has been denied because of her love for Charles, she realizes her behavior has caused two men pain and gives custody of Vicki to Charles. (1954)