Lonely heiress Milo Roberts notices Jerry displaying his work in Montmartre. Jerry then joins them before going out to try and sell his art. At the ground-floor bar in their building, Henri tells Adam about his girlfriend, Lise Bouvier. His friend and neighbor Adam Cook is a struggling concert pianist and longtime associate of French singer Henri Baurel. It is ranked number nine among AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals.Īmerican World War II veteran Jerry Mulligan lives in Paris trying to succeed as an artist. In 1993, it was selected for preservation by the United States Library of Congress in the National Film Registry for being 'culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant'. According to Leslie Caron in a 2009 interview on Paul O'Grady's interview show the film ran into controversy with the Hays Office over part of her dance sequence with a chair the censor viewing the scene called it 'sexually provocative', which surprised Caron, who answered 'What can you do with a chair?'Īn American in Paris was an enormous success, garnering eight Academy Award nominations and winning six (including Best Picture), as well as earning other industry honors.

It was filmed on 44 sets in MGM's back lot. The ballet sequence cost almost half a million dollars to shoot. The climax of the film is 'The American in Paris' ballet, a 17-minute dialogue-free dance featuring Kelly and Caron set to Gershwin's An American in Paris. Other songs in the movie include ' I'll Build A Stairway to Paradise' and ' 'S Wonderful'. Some of the tunes in this catalog were included in the movie, such as ' I Got Rhythm' and ' Love Is Here to Stay'. MGM executive Arthur Freed bought the Gershwin musical catalog from George's brother Ira in the late 1940s, since George died in 1937. The story of the film is interspersed with dance numbers choreographed by Gene Kelly and set to Gershwin's music. The music is by George Gershwin, with lyrics by his brother Ira, with additional music by Johnny Green, and Saul Chaplin, the music directors. 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 from a script by Alan Jay Lerner. An American in Paris is a 1951 American musical comedy film inspired by the 1928 orchestral composition An American in Paris by George Gershwin.

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