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An American in Paris is a 1951 American musical romantic comedy film inspired by the 1928 jazz-influenced symphonic poem (or tone poem) [4] An American in Paris by George Gershwin. Starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron (her film debut), Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary, and Nina Foch, the film is set in Paris, and was directed by Vincente Minnelli ...
- $7 million
- Arthur Freed
- $2.7 million
An American in Paris: Directed by Vincente Minnelli. With Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary. Three friends struggle to find work in Paris.
- Vincente Minnelli
- 198
- 4 min
Jerry Mulligan (Gene Kelly) is an American ex-GI who stays in post-war Paris to become a painter, and falls for the gamine charms of Lise Bouvier (Leslie Caron). However, his paintings come to the ...
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- Gene Kelly
- Vincente Minnelli
- Musical, Romance
Oct 2, 1992 · "An American in Paris" swept the Academy Awards for 1951, with Oscars for best picture and the major technical categories: screenplay, score, cinematography, art direction, set design, and even a special Oscar for the choreography of its 18-minute closing ballet extravaganza.
Synopsis. Jerry Mulligan (Gene Kelly) is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam (Oscar Levant) is a struggling concert pianist who is a long time associate of a French singer, Henri Baurel (Georges Guétary). A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts (Nina Foch) takes Jerry under her wing ...
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Memos in the M-G-M files reveal that Kelly had requested copies of two films to use as background for An American in Paris, the French film L'Orange ete and a 1934 French cartoon entitled La joie de vivre, which featured extensive dancing. In a October 4, 1949 letter in the Arthur Freed Collection, Maurice Chevalier's representative, agent ...
An American in Paris (1951) An American in Paris (1951) is one of the greatest, most elegant, and most celebrated of MGM's 50's musicals, with Gershwin lyrics and musical score (lyrics by Ira and music by composer George from some of their compositions of the 20s and 30s), lavish sets and costumes, tremendous Technicolor cinematography, and a ...
