An American In Paris Certificate: 
- Duration:
- 113 mins
- Year produced:
- 1951
- Director:
- Vincente Minnelli
- Cast:
- Gene Kelly
- Leslie Caron
- Oscar Levant
The much-loved Gene Kelly stars here as Jerry Mulligan, an American GI who stayed on in Paris after the war to live the bohemian life of a painter. Director Vincente Minnelli's musical is filled with pure ”joie de vivre” as Kelly, Leslie Caron and the rest of the cast dance their way through various romantic entanglements – with the film's set piece being a 17-minute ballet sequence set to a score by George and Ira Gershwin. The film won six Academy Awards - while Kelly won a Special Oscar on top for his “achievement in the art of choreography".
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Fascinating facts
Reputed to be Gene Kelly's favorite of all his films, the famous actor had to screen 'The Red Shoes' (1948) for the MGM executives in order to persuade them to back a dance film.
The 17 minute ballet scene in An American in Paris took a month to film, and cost over half a million dollars to produce - a vast amount of money in 1951.