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An American in Paris
American World War II veteran Jerry Mulligan, his friend and neighbor Adam Cook and French singer Henri Baurel struggle to find work in Paris. However, things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman, wealthy Milo Roberts.
January 21, 1921 in Paris, France
March 5, 1890 in Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
March 21, 1903 in New York City, New York, USA
20 April 1913, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
30 March 1888, Ystad, Skåne län, Sweden
19 December 1915, Fabens, Texas, USA
December 8, 1905 in Barr, Bas-Rhin, France
27 December 1906, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
April 25, 1942 in France
March 15, 1907 in Wheaton, Illinois, USA
June 21, 1879 in New York City, New York, USA
8 April 1926, Los Angeles, California, USA
February 22, 2015
One of the great MGM musicals.
February 03, 2014
It still looks pretty good today, with marvellous Technicolored design, athletic dancing from Kelly and a superb Gershwin score, but some sequences have dated.
January 25, 2011
Gene Kelly remains one of the best and brightest of the Golden Era musical stars and An American in Paris shows him in fine form.
October 30, 2011
The Gershwin songs are magnificent, and the climactic ballet a tour de force that won the great Hungarian-born cameraman John Alton an Oscar.
December 12, 2006
While not nearly the musical it's cracked up to be, this 1951 film is absolutely required viewing for anyone who wants to see the studio system (MGM style) at its gaudiest, most Byzantine height.
February 22, 2015
Imperfect, then, but intermittently awe-inspiring.
December 06, 2016
The first three-quarters might be at best B-tier Freed Unit filmmaking, but those last 18 minutes are as precious as anything produced by studio-era Hollywood.
February 19, 2008
One of the most imaginative musical confections turned out by Hollywood in years.
February 22, 2015
It's hard not to be charmed by Gene Kelly's featherweight smiles and amazing dancing. But the film as a whole is -- and let no one contradict me on this -- a complete trifle.
February 22, 2015
Inspired by the late George Gershwin's impressionistic musical suite of the same name, the picture is one of the finest musicals Hollywood has ever produced.
June 04, 2013
...its defining trait is insistence.
