An American in Paris

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces An American In Paris, 1951.

TCM's Alicia Malone introduces An American In Paris, 1951.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces An American In Paris, 1951.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces An American In Paris, 1951.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces An American In Paris, 1951.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces An American In Paris, 1951.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces An American In Paris, 1951.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces An American In Paris, 1951.

Variations on Gershwin's "Embraceable You" support Henri (Georges Guetary) as he describes his girlfriend Lise (Leslie Caron) to Adam (Oscar Levant) in a fantasy musical sequence in An American In Paris, 1951.

The opening sequence from Vincente Minnelli's An American in Paris, 1951, which offers a brief tour of Paris and introduces "Jerry," the Gene Kelly character.

On the banks of the (MGM soundstage) Seine, painter Jerry (Gene Kelly) and ingenue Lise (Leslie Caron) do their romantic number set to Gershwin's "Our Love Is Here To Stay," in An American In Paris, 1951, from producer Arthur Freed.

Probably the only time the ubiquitous wit and piano virtuoso Oscar Levant (as "Adam") ever got five minutes alone on screen, in a fantasy of himself conducting and playing (his pal George) Gershwin's "Concerto in F," from An American In Paris, 1951.

Gene Kelly (as "Jerry") with his own choreography and the neighborhood kids, does some language instruction with George Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm," in An American In Paris, 1951.

Jerry (Gene Kelly), an ex-G-I and sidewalk artist, meets art patron Milo (Nina Foch) on the street in Vincente Minnelli's An American In Paris, 1951, Noel Neill the derided American student.

An American artist finds love in Paris in the Oscar®-winning musical romance, An American in Paris starring Gene Kelly.