An American in Paris (1951)
Note: this print runs 67 minutes against a recorded 108 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary, Nina Foch, Madge Blake, Anna Q. Nilsson, Eugene Borden
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
An American in Paris is a 1951 American musical romantic comedy film inspired by the 1928 jazz-influenced symphonic poem (or tone poem) 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 from a script by Alan Jay Lerner. The music is by George Gershwin with lyrics by his brother Ira, with additional music by Johnny Green and Saul Chaplin, the music directors.
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from YouTube.
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