AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (1951)

 





















Directed by: Vincente Minnelli
Based on the orchestral composition by: George Gershwin
Music and lyrics by: George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin
Screenplay by: Alan Jay Lerner
Starring: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guetary, Nina Foch, Eugene Borden, John Eldredge, Anna Q. Nilsson, Hayden Rorke, Noel Neill, Benny Carter, Madge Blake, Judy Landon, Sue Casey, Dudley Field Malone

113 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Jerry Mulligan is an ex-serviceman who stayed on in Paris after the war. He's now a struggling artist trying to sell his paintings on the sidewalk. He's had little luck until the rich Milo Roberts sees him. She offers to help him with his career but is clearly more interested in Jerry than his work. She rents a studio for him and plans his first exhibition. For his part, Jerry falls for a lovely young French woman he sees in a nightclub, Lise Bouvier. She however is being pursued by Jerry's friend, entertainer Henri Baurel. When Baurel gets the opportunity to tour in the US, he wants Lise to marry him so they can go together. She is in love with Jerry but feels she can't abandon Henri who saved her during the war. She has only a short time to decide.

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