Fresh
Gene Kelly remains one of the best and brightest of the Golden Era musical stars and An American in Paris shows him in fine form.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
An American in Paris
What a joy! It's M-G-M's Technicolor musical!
1951 · 1h 53m · Approved
Comedy, Music, Romance
Directed by
Vincente Minnelli
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.
Director and cast
- Vincente Minnelli Director
- Gene Kelly as Jerry Mulligan
- Leslie Caron as Lise Bouvier
- Oscar Levant as Adam Cook
- Georges Guétary as Henri Baurel
- Nina Foch as Milo Roberts
- Anna Q. Nilsson as Kay Jansen
- Robert Ames as Ballet Dancer (uncredited)
- John Eldredge as Jack Jansen
- Joan Anderson as Child in Ballet (uncredited)
- Hayden Rorke as Tommy Baldwin
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
95%
Tomatometer
Fresh
One of the most imaginative musical confections turned out by Hollywood in years.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
While not nearly the musical it's cracked up to be, this 1951 film is absolutely required viewing for anyone who wants to see the studio system (MGM style) at its gaudiest, most Byzantine height.
Don Druker, Chicago Reader
Fresh
A musical both ludicrously overpraised (especially in Hollywood) and underrated.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
...the picture takes on its glow of magic when Miss Caron is on the screen. When she isn't, it bumps along slowly as a patched-up, conventional musical show.
Bosley Crowther, New York Times
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- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- Director
- Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly
- Cast
- Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen
IMDb
8.3
Rotten Tomatoes
100%
Metacritic
99
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