French Postcards

French actress Valérie Quennessen's breakthrough international film role.

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The film was shot at roughly sixty locations in Paris, France.

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Screenwriter Gloria Katz and writer-director Willard Huyck were married.

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The film's story was inspired by the personal experiences of producers Willard Huyck and Gloria Katz, who traveled abroad from the United States as young adults.

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The "cattle call" casting process for this picture lasted about two and a half months in three places: California, New York City and Paris, France.

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About four hundred young actors auditioned for all the student roles in this film.

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Actor David Marshall Grant's first feature film.

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The first of two films shot back-to-back by screenwriter Gloria Katz and writer-director Willard Huyck for Paramount Pictures. The second would be Best Defense (1984).

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Apart from the principal cast, the only American/Hollywood crew member who traveled to Paris, France, for key creatives Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck was editor Carol Littleton.

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Because of music licensing disputes, the 1986 Paramount Home Video edition of this film contained almost entirely different French pop songs compared with the theatrical and cable television versions. Similarly, in 1984 NBC-TV aired a version that included previously deleted footage of Debra Winger, who by then had become a major star.

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For this film, producers Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck did their research by interviewing the film's former French teachers and instructors as well as American students who were abroad at the time and are now studying in Paris, France.

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According to an article published in the Toronto and Canadian newspaper 'The Globe and Mail' on August 23, 1979, the film's world premiere was planned for the Montréal World Film Festival in late August to early September 1979.

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Director Willard Huyck studied in Paris, France, during his first year of university, and this was where the film is set and was shot.

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The film features Oscar nominee Debra Winger.

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This picture's pre-production period was a time frame about six months before principal photography.

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French actress Valérie Quennessen's first American/Hollywood feature film.

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Movie star billing order: Top / 1.: Miles Chapin as Joel; 2.: Blanche Baker as Laura; 3.: David Marshall Grant as Alex; 4.: Valérie Quennessen as Toni; 5.: Debra Winger as Melanie; 6.: Marie-France Pisier as Madame Catherine Tessier and 7.: Jean Rochefort as Monsieur Tessier.

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Véronique Jannot, who plays Malsy, had her name correctly spelled as "Véronique Jannot" at the start of the film's final title sequence cast summary, but it was later misspelled as "Veronique Janot" in the cast list section of the film's final title sequence.

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According to an article published in the show business trade paper Daily Variety's 14 August 1978 issue, the principal photography period for this picture was a production shoot that took place in Paris, France, in 1979 and lasted about three months, from the beginning of October to the end of December of that year.

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According to an article published in the show business trade paper Daily Variety's 13 October 1978 issue, the film was financed by a joint venture between Paramount Pictures Corporation and a German film investment consortium called Geria. The latter organization was based in Munich and was reportedly backed by German tax shelter groups.

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Director and co-screenwriter Willard Huyck stated that the play performed in this picture was the same as the sophomore play he wrote for French-language training in Paris, France.

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This was the last feature-length cinema film shot by the famous French film director Jean-Jacques Beineix as first assistant director / assistant director.

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The opening title sequence reads: ''A Katz / Huyck Film''. This refers to screenwriter Gloria Katz and writer-director Willard Huyck.

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