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An American in Paris (1951) [G]

Release Date:
September 26, 1951

Original Title:
An American in Paris

Alternate Titles:
En amerikan i Paris
花都艳舞
파리의 아메리카인

Genres:
Comedy | Music | Romance

Production Companies:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
AT: 12  BR: 10  DE: 12  ES: 16  GB: U  HU: 12  JP: G  MX: A  NL: AL  PL: 12  RO: 12  SE: Btl  US: G 

Runtime: 113

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

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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.

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American Film Institute (AFI)
1998
#68 		100 Years: 100 MOVIES
100 Greatest American Movies Of All Time
2002
#39 		100 Years: 100 PASSIONS
100 Greatest Love Stories Of All Time
2004
#32 		100 Years: 100 SONGS
100 Greatest American Movie Music
“I Got Rhythm”
2006
#9 		100 Years: MUSICALS
25 Greatest Movie Musicals Of All Time

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Production

Additional Music:
Johnny Green

Additional Photography:
John Alton

Art Direction:
E. Preston Ames
Cedric Gibbons

Assistant Director:
Hugh Boswell
Alfred Raboch
Edward Woehler

Assistant Set Decoration:
F. Keogh Gleason

Associate Producer:
Roger Edens

Camera Operator:
A. Lindsley Lane

Choreographer:
Gene Kelly

Colorist:
Henri Jaffa

Costume Design:
Orry-Kelly
Irene Sharaff
Walter Plunkett

Director:
Vincente Minnelli

Director of Photography:
Alfred Gilks

Editor:
Adrienne Fazan

Electrician:
Sid Moore

Gaffer:
Wes Shanks

Grip:
Richard Borland

Hair Designer:
Sydney Guilaroff

Legal Services:
Rudi Monta

Lyricist:
Ira Gershwin

Makeup Artist:
John Truwe
Robert J. Schiffer

Makeup Designer:
William Tuttle

Matte Painter:
Louis Lichtenfield

Music Director:
Johnny Green
Saul Chaplin

Musician:
Gus Bivona
Alex Alexander
Samuel Albert
John T. Boudreau
Alec Compinsky
David Crocov
Jakob Gimpel
Max Gralnick
Saul Grant
Glen Johnston
Sol Kindler
Arthur Maebe
Jack Marshall
Peter Mercurio
Uan Rasey
Milton Raskin
Jack Teagarden
Si Zentner

Orchestrator:
Benny Carter
Robert Franklyn
Wally Heglin
Skip Martin
Albert Sendrey
Conrad Salinger

Original Music Composer:
George Gershwin
Conrad Salinger

Other:
Joan Joseff

Painter:
Frank Wesselhoff

Producer:
Arthur Freed

Production Assistant:
Jane Loring

Production Manager:
Walter Strohm

Recording Supervision:
Douglas Shearer

Researcher:
Kenton Andrews

Scenic Artist:
Dillard Clayton Thomason

Screenplay:
Alan Jay Lerner

Sculptor:
Henry Greutert

Set Decoration:
Edwin B. Willis

Songs:
George Gershwin

Sound:
Standish J. Lambert

Sound Editor:
Van Allen James

Special Effects:
Warren Newcombe
Irving G. Ries

Story:
Alan Jay Lerner

Stunt Double:
Russell Saunders

Supervising Editor:
William LeVanway

Technical Advisor:
Alain Antik

Unit Manager:
J.J. Cohn
Jay Marchant

Unit Publicist:
Howard Dietz

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