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An American in Paris

Movie (1951)

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

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Released:	Oct 4th, 1951
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Gene Kelly
plays Jerry Mulligan

Leslie Caron
plays Lise Bouvier

Oscar Levant
plays Adam Cook

Georges Gu�tary
plays Henri Baurel

Nina Foch
plays Milo Roberts

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Oscar Levant, more of a pianist than an actor, signed onto the film because he was actually a friend of George Gershwin.
Vincente Minnelli first wanted Maurice Chevalier in the Georges Guétary part, and Celeste Holm in the Nina Foch part. But Chevalier wasn't available; Minnelli was pleased with Foch's reading, and she got the part.
A major reason Gene Kelly suggested Leslie Caron as the female lead was because he felt this movie needed a "real" French girl playing Lise, not just an American actress playing one.
On the two-disc special edition DVD released in 2008 by Warner Home Video, footage of one musical scene has been restored as a bonus: Georges Guétary, accompanied by Oscar Levant at the piano, singing "Love Walked In" to Leslie Caron in a café. Audio extras include Gene Kelly crooning "I've Got a Crush on You," plus two versions of "But Not for Me": a Georges Guétary vocal and an Oscar Levant piano solo.

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