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An American in Paris (film) - Wikipedia!
An American in Paris is one of Hollywood’s most spectacular musicals ever produced.
Gene kelly biography imdb american in paris
Featuring a score by American musical icon George Gershwin and dance performances by the talented Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron, it tells the story of Jerry Mulligan, a struggling American painter in post-war Paris in love with Lise, a young French woman already engaged to a cabaret singer.
An American in Paris won the 1951 Oscar for Best Picture.
The unabashedly sunny Technicolor musical beat out the critically acclaimed tragedy A Place in the Sun and the film adaptation of Tennesse William’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Streetcar Named Desire.
Back then, the Oscars were broadcast on the radio, so no red carpet to watch on TV.
Technicolor was a big deal at the time.
The 1950s was a time of transition from black and white to color film, with color still a relative rarity in Hollywood in 1951.
Nearly every review mentioned that An American in Paris was filmed in Technicolor, which was