An American in Paris (1951) on Netflix
Passed19511h 54mDramaMusicalRomance
Jerry Mulligan sells his paintings in Montmartre, where Milo Roberts buys two. At a bar he asks a stranger to dance, unaware she is Lise Bouvier, loved by his friend Henri.
- Netflix4.2/5
- IMDb7.1/1039,795 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes95%
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Plot summary
After the Second World War, Jerry Mulligan remains in Paris and tries to build a career as a painter. His neighbor Adam Cook is a pianist who has worked for years with the singer Henri Baurel, and it is from Henri that Adam hears about the woman Henri loves, Lise Bouvier. In Montmartre, Milo Roberts watches Jerry show his canvases and buys two of them, then takes him to her apartment to pay him and asks him to dinner that evening. Jerry arrives to find himself her only guest.
Cast
- Joan Andersonas Child in Ballet
- Larry Arnoldas Frenchman
- Martha Bamattreas Mathilde Mattieu
- Charles Bastinas Smiling Young Man
- Joan Bayleyas Ballet Dancer
- Rodney Bieberas Ballet Dancer
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about An American in Paris (1951)
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- Leslie Caron said the film ran into controversy with the Hays Office over part of her dance sequence with a chair; the censor reviewing the scene called it "sexually provocative", which surprised Caron, who asked "What can you do with a chair?"
- The film's ballet sequence cost nearly half a million dollars and was filmed on 44 separate sets built on MGM's back lot.
- Gene Kelly received an Academy Honorary Award that year for "his versatility as an actor, singer, director, and dancer", and specifically for his achievements in the art of choreography on film. It was his only Oscar.
- The epilogue of the 2016 musical film La La Land references the set design and costuming of An American in Paris, which director Damien Chazelle called "a movie that we just pillaged".
