An American in Paris

Sep 26, 1951

1h 53m

★ 7.0

What a joy! It's M-G-M's Technicolor musical!

Overview

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.

Genres

Music

Romance

Comedy

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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Cast

Jerry Mulligan

Gene Kelly

Lise Bouvier

Leslie Caron

Adam Cook

Oscar Levant

Henri Baurel

Georges Guétary

Milo Roberts

Nina Foch

Ballet Dancer (uncredited)

Robert Ames

Child in Ballet (uncredited)

Joan Anderson

Frenchman (uncredited)

Larry Arnold

Mathilde Mattieu (uncredited)

Martha Bamattre

Smiling Young Man (uncredited)

Charles Bastin

Ballet Dancer (uncredited)

Joan Bayley

Ballet Dancer (uncredited)

Rodney Bieber

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