Yes but, the Americans only entered Paris in triumph once, and Ben Hur was released in one year, and Arris Poulos' shocked faint is very famous. And my dad had an elderly windbreaker jacket like that in the decade after, though not the car.
In the first one, the bloke in the bowler hat reminded me of Jonny Harris' character in Murdoch Mysteries (my MM habit is a useful start point for a lot of my guesses on early images).