Plot
Jerry Mulligan (Kelly) is an Western exile trying to produce the dwelling within Paris as a painter. His friend Adam (Levant) occurs as struggling piano player world health organization's an extended instance associate of the renowned singer Henri Baurel (Georges Guétary). The lonely society woman (Ninthe Foch) requires Jerry under her wing simply for Jerry to fall for Lise (Leslie Caron), the girl he understands at a person. Lise lessens for him too, however she is already engaged to Henri. A plot is interspersed sustaining indicate stopping Gershwin tunes sustaining dance choreographed by Gene Kelly. Songs include "I've Got Rhythm", "S'Wonderful", "Our Love Is Here To Stay", & "Concert in F for Piano and Orchestra".

Award wins:

Academy Award for Best Picture - Arthur Freed, producer Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy Academy Award for Best Art - Set Decoration, Color - E. Preston Ames, Cedric Gibbons, F. Keogh Gleason, and Edwin B. Willis Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color - John Alton and Alfred Gilks Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Color - Orry-Kelly, Walter Plunkett, and Irene Sharaff Academy Award for Best Musical Score - Saul Chaplin and Johnny Green Academy Award for Best Writing, Scoring and Screenplay - Alan Jay Lerner Writers Guild of America Award for Best Drama Written Directly for the Screen - Alan Jay Lerner

Award nominations:
Academy Award for Best Director - Vincente Minnelli Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture - Vincente Minnelli Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy - Gene Kelly Academy Award for Best Film Editing - Adrienne Fazan

Gene Kelly received an honorary Academy Award that season for "his versatility as an actor, singer, director and dancer, and specifically for his brilliant achievements in the art of choreography on film." It was his just Oscar.

A film has likewise been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

Trivia

A film was shot in Hollywood sets, and so it features occasionally quirks in the occasional French dialogue. Notably, touching a beginning of the I personally had rhythm total, one of a "French" children says Jerry, parle anglais à nous, which sounds like curious. In a French soundtrack, which switches to the original healthy for the duration of the songs, the à nous is masked across the plop healthy, to produce a phrase other toothsome.

Hollywood picture referencing France rarely utilize location shooting or even native speakers. Peachy care is even so every now and again put into reproducing Paris surroundings, such as in that Our contries within Paris or even inside Irma La Douce. Ironically, much of older French Paris-depending moving picture were studio function likewise & a equivalent art directors (eg. Alexandre Trauner) were sometimes working in two sides of the ocean...

Oscar Levant, who plays Adam Cook. was one of George Gershwin's nighest friends inside realistic.

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