Starring:
Gene Kelly as Jerry Mulligan
Leslie Caron as Lise Bouvier
Georges Guétary as Henri "Hank" Baurel
Nina Foch as Milo Roberts
What to say about yet another musical? I didn’t like this one quiet so much as I like every other musical. I am in generally a fan of all movies musically inclined, but An American in Paris was far below expectation. Firstly it had thee most ridiculous plot lines ever! Some painter dude is randomly picked up by an artisan collector, but falls in love with a perfume sales-lady and some 3, 17 minute dance sequence later they are relinquished to fall in love together, happy forever and ever? Please! Furthermore, I saw Leslie Caron in another Academy Picture “Gigi” and she was like wayyy prettier. In this movie I swear I thought she was an alien, those teeth were protruding put of her tiny mouth and her eyes so slanted and wide at the same time it was like alienish and her hair was butchered, I didn’t like the way she looked and think they should have tried harder to make her look prettier. The dance numbers were incredible but not worth the time to watch, the movie “The Red Shoes” is a particularly a beautiful movie with much better dance sequences. Sidenote, this movie won “A Streetcar Named Desire”, why academy why? You failed me when you choose Hamlet over last said movie but this is beyond an oversight this is glitz and glam over talent!
Academy Award for Best Art – Set Decoration, Color: E. Preston Ames, Cedric Gibbons, F. Keogh Gleason, and Edwin B. Willis
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
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