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Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris is a simple, delightful movie starring  Leslie Manville who is a widowed cleaning lady, Ada Harris, living in 1950's London.   Her fantasy is to own a Christian Dior gown.  She is actually in no position to buy one but is intent on owning one and saves her pennies to make this happen.  After receiving an unexpected war widow's pension, she travels to Paris in order to buy one.  Dior initially declines to take on Ada as a client, as she is not the usual client that they were used to dealing with.
Ada is fortunate financial difficulties, and the, however, as Dior has come upon some financial difficulties and the  company finally  agrees to let Ada buy a Dior gown for a payment in cash. . Ada falls in love with a red dress and tries to buy it but another client manages to buy it first, so Ada settles for a green dress.   In Paris, she has many adventures and gets involved in many incidents.  The green gown finally gets to London and a friend, who is a struggling actress, borrows it, wears it to an affair and it is destroyed by fire.   Ada Harris does get the original red dress sent to her by her friends at Dior, after the original buyer does not pay for it and her dream comes true.  Ada gets to wear the Dior red gown to a dance and her fantasy becomes reality.  A sweet, light story that is enjoyable without the lights, bells and whistles of many of today's movies.