An American in Paris(Movie, 1951)

Name: An American in Paris
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance / Love
Released: 1951
Duration: T01:53:00
Rating: 3.5

| 1h 53min | Genres: Comedy, Music, Romance / Love

Rating: 3.5/5 (with 242 votes)

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. The story of the film is interspersed with dance numbers choreographed by Gene Kelly and set to Gershwin's music. MGM executive Arthur Freed bought the Gershwin musical catalog from ... ()

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Awards & Nominations for An American in Paris

Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Color Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Color Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score National Board of Review: Top Ten Films nominated for: Academy Award for Best Director nominated for: Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color nominated for: Academy Award for Best Film Editing nominated for: Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay nominated for: Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Color nominated for: Academy Award for Best Picture nominated for: Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Color nominated for: Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score

About An American in Paris

Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.

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Trailer for An American in Paris + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Trailer 1(Trailer, 3:37)

Trailer 1 (Trailer) | Ein Amerikaner in Paris - Trailer (Trailer, DE)

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Production country: United States of America (USA)

Plays in: Paris

Based on: "An American in Paris" (find it on Amazon)

Made by: Loew's, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: German (DE), English (EN), French (FR)

Translated into 23 languages: Arabic (AR), Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date GB: 12/24/1951 (World premiere: 09/26/1951)

Cast: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary, Nina Foch, Madge Blake, Anna Q. Nilsson, Eugene Borden, Susan Cummings, Jack Chefe, Ann Codee

Director: Vincente Minnelli

Producer: Arthur Freed, Roger Edens

Screenwriter: Alan Jay Lerner

Film Editor: Adrienne Fazan

Director of Photography: Alfred Gilks, John Alton

Composer: Saul Chaplin

Costume designer: Orry-Kelly

Production Designer: Cedric Gibbons

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Sinfonia de Paris"

"花都艳舞"

"Un Américain à Paris"

"Un americano a Parigi"

"파리의 미국인"

"파리의 아메리카인"

Keywords: paris, france, parfum, musical, singing, painter

Budget: 5,635,000 USD

Revenue: 6,981,000 USD (= 124%)

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An American in Paris(Movie, 1951)

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