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Format:	DVD	Edition:	--
Leading Role:	Gene Kelly	Rating:	NR
Director:	Vincente Minnelli	Release Date:	Apr 27, 1999
Genre:	Essential Cinema	UPC:	027616627322
Sub-Genre:	--	Region:	--
Condition:	Like New

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One of the greatest of 1950s screen musicals is a happy collaboration between the grace and athleticism of Gene Kelly and colorful palette of Vincente Minnelli. An American G.I. lingers in Paris after the war to study painting and soon falls in love with Caron, an engaged mademoiselle, much to the chagrin of his romance-minded benefactress. Features a seventeen-minute, avant-garde ballet choreographed by Kelly to George Gershwin's unbeatable melodies. Academy Award Nominations: 8, including Best Director. Academy Awards: 6, including Best Picture, Best Story and Screenplay. Kelly won a special Oscar for his achievements.
Credits
Writer:	Alan Jay Lerner
Producer:	Arthur Freed
Cast:	Gene Kelly, Georges Guetary, Leslie Caron, Nina Foch, Oscar Levant

Notes
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1993. Gene Kelly received an Honorary Academy Award in 1951 "in appreciation of his versatility as an actor, singer, director and dancer, and specifically for his brilliant achievements in the art of choreography on film." Film debut for French actress-dancer Leslie Caron, who was discovered by Gene Kelly. The film also featured the American in Paris Ballet Performers. Gene Kelly's paintings were done by Gene Grant. Irene Sharaff designed the costumes for the ballet sequence and Walter Plunkett designed them for the Beaux Arts ball sequence. DVD Features: Region 1 encoding Keep case 8-page booklet highlighting the on-screen magic and behind-the-scenes excitement of this all-time favorite Theatrical trailer
Editorial reviews
"...[A] multi-Oscar winner (best picture included)..." USA Today - p.3D - Mike Clark "...Minnelli creates a magical, stylised world in which music, colour and movement are all perfectly integrated..." Sight and Sound - Geoffrey Macnab (05/01/2000) "...For fun and footwork alone, it makes today's competition look positively lead-footed..." Total Film - Kevin Harley (07/01/2003) "[T]here's tremendous wit in its love-letter visions of post-WWII expatriate-artist patronage." -- Grade: A- Entertainment Weekly - Steve Daly (09/19/2008)
Awards
1951 Academy Awards, Best Adapted or Musical Song/Score: Johnny Green 1951 Academy Awards, Best Adapted or Musical Song/Score: Saul Chaplin 1951 Academy Awards, Best Art Direction - Set Decoration (Color) 1951 Academy Awards, Best Art Direction - Set Decoration (Color): Cedric Gibbons 1951 Academy Awards, Best Cinematography: Alfred Gilks 1951 Academy Awards, Best Cinematography: John Alton 1951 Academy Awards, Best Costume Design (Color) 1951 Academy Awards, Best Original Screenplay: Alan Jay Lerner 1951 Academy Awards, Best Picture 1951 Academy Awards, Honorary Awards: Gene Kelly

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