Rent An American in Paris (1951)
3.5 of 5 from 136 ratings
1h 49min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Kelly plays an ex-GI who loves Paris and loves even more an alluring (but engaged) perfume-shop clerk. Dance sequences spun around Gershwin songs accent Kelly's romantic pursuit. And the final 17-minute ballet - combining the title symphony. Impressionist set stylings and Kelly's unique talent for telling a story in dance - lifts this winner of six Academy Awards including Best Picture into the ether of timelessness. Love Is Here To Stay Kelly sings. So is An American In Paris.
- Actors:
- Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary, Nina Foch, The American In Paris Ballet, Jon Gardner, Robert Ames, Joan Anderson, Marie Antoinette Andrews, Martha Bamattre, Felice Basso, Charles Bastin, Joan Bayley, Janine Bergez, Rodney Bieber, Madge Blake, Ralph Blum, Nan Boardman, Dino Bolognese
- Directors:
- Vincente Minnelli
- Producers:
- Arthur Freed
- Writers:
- Alan Jay Lerner
- Others:
- Johnny Green, Cedric Gibbons, Saul Chaplin, John Alton, Irene Sharaff, Preston Ames, Walter Plunkett, Orry-Kelly, Adrienne Fazan, Keogh Gleason, Edwin B. Willis, Alfred Gilks
- Aka:
- Un americano en París
- Studio:
- Warner
- Genres:
- Classics, Music & Musicals, Romance
- Collections:
- A Brief History of Classical Music on Film: Composers, All the Best: A Celebration of New Year Movies, Award Winners, BAFTA Nominations Competition 2025, Cinema Paradiso's 2024 Centenary Club: Part 1, Dancing Queens: Guide to the Musical Films That'll, Films by Genre, Holidays Film Collection, Ireland At the Oscars, Oscar Nominations Competition 2023, Oscar's Two-Time Club, Oscars: Winners & Losers, People of the Pictures, Remembering Robert Redford, A Brief History of Film..., Top 10 Best Picture Follow-Ups, Top 10 Films By Year, Top 10 Films of 1939, Top 10 Golden Bear Winners, Top 100 AFI Passions, Top Films
- Awards:
1952 Oscar Best Cinematography Color
1952 Oscar Best Art Direction Color
1952 Oscar Best Music Original or Adaptation Musical Score
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 18/03/2013
- Run Time:
- 113 minutes
- Languages:
- Castilian Spanish Dolby Digital 1.0, English Dolby Digital 1.0, French Dolby Digital 1.0, German Dolby Digital 1.0, Italian Dolby Atmos, Latin American Spanish Dolby Digital 1.0
- Subtitles:
- Brazilian, Castillian, Danish, Dutch, English, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, French, German, German Hard of Hearing, Italian, Italian Hard of Hearing, Latin American Spanish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Swedish
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Commentary by Patricia Ward Kelly with Gene
- Paris on Parade (1938 MGM Short)
- Symphony in Slang (1951MGM Cartoon)
- Theatrical Trailer Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer (2002 PBS Document)
- 'S Wonderful: The Making of An American in Paris'
- Loved Walked In - Outtake
- Audio Outtakes (selection only)
- Alternate Main Title (audio only)
- But Not for Me Guetary (audio only)
- But Not for Me Levant Piano Solo (audio only)
- Gershwin Prelude #3 (audio only)
- I ve Got a Crush on You (audio only)
- Nice Work if You Can Get It (audio only)
- 'S Wonderful (audio only)
- Radio Interviews (selection only; play all button)
- Johnny Green (audio only)
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Reviews (1) of An American in Paris
All That Jazz, None of the Spark - An American in Paris review by griggs
I’m not a big musical fan, and An American in Paris didn’t really change that. The Gershwin score is glorious, of course — lush and lively in all the right places — but the film wrapped around it feels more like a gallery piece than a story. It’s beautiful to look at, just not all that engaging.
Gene Kelly dances like he’s trying to charm the paint off the sets, and Leslie Caron floats through her debut looking perfectly lovely, if not exactly alive. Everything’s bright, polished, and a bit too pleased with itself.
The famous ballet at the end is impressive in scale but exhausting in length — a flourish that forgets to mean anything. It’s a film of undeniable craft, but for me, there’s not much heart behind the spectacle. All tune, no tune-in.
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