An American in Paris

Musical, Romance

Gene Kelly	Jerry Mulligan
Leslie Caron	Lise Bouvier
Oscar Levant	Adam Cook
Georges Guétary	Henri Baurel
Nina Foch	Milo Roberts
Marie Antoinette Andrews	News vendor (uncredited)
Martha Bamattre	Mathilde Mattieu (uncredited)
Madge Blake	Edna Mae Bestram (perfume customer) (uncredited)
Nan Boardman	Maid (uncredited)
Eugene Borden	Georges Matthieu (uncredited)

Director	Vincente Minnelli
Producer	Arthur Freed
Writer	Alan Jay Lerner

A GI (Gene Kelly) stays in Paris after the war to become an artist, and has to choose between the patronage of a rich American woman (Nina Foch) and a French gamine (Leslie Caron) engaged to an older man. The plot is mostly an excuse for director Vincente Minnelli to pool his own extraordinary talent with those of choreographer-dancer-actor Kelly and the artists behind the screenplay, art direction, cinematography, and score, creating a rapturous musical not quite like anything else in cinema. The final section of the film comprises a 17-minute dance sequence that took a month to film and is breathtaking. Songs include "'S Wonderful," "I Got Rhythm," and "Love Is Here to Stay." --Tom Keogh