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An American in Paris |  | Director: Vincente Minnelli
Actors: Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary, Nina Foch
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
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Rating:  111 reviews
Sales Rank: 57897
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 113 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0792841522
UPC: 027616627322
EAN: 9780792841524
ASIN: 0792841522
Theatrical Release Date: 1951
Release Date: April 27, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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A GI (Gene Kelly) stays in Paris after the war to become an artist, and has to choose between the patronage of a rich American woman (Nina Foch) and a French gamine (Leslie Caron) engaged to an older man. The plot is mostly an excuse for director Vincente Minnelli to pool his own extraordinary talent with those of choreographer-dancer-actor Kelly and the artists behind the screenplay, art direction, cinematography, and score, creating a rapturous musical not quite like anything else in cinema. The final section of the film comprises a 17-minute dance sequence that took a month to film and is breathtaking. Songs include "'S Wonderful," "I Got Rhythm," and "Love Is Here to Stay." --Tom Keogh
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Broadway must be the Champs Elysées November 3, 2009
Jacques COULARDEAU (OLLIERGUES France)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Another film I had never seen and that had become a myth. For the time it was a pretty good film with a lot of dancing, a small lot of singing, a great lot of romanticism, divided loyalties, but no jealousy, just love and gallant attitudes: better yield to the love of a lady than to marry her out of some forced gratitude. Then a sprinkle of French and good nice spots in Paris. A good touristic vision of that Paris that has probably never existed. and there we are we have a fairy tale in a satin shrine, but life is so much more different. Americans and bubble gum. The kids and everyone loves them. A real dream on and in a cloud. And yet it is charming even if with the charm of an absolutely surreal and unreal vision. In other words it is a perfect musical for Broadway, and that kind of show is perfect on a stage, and on a stage it is too often acted. The big gigantic staircases going down to the embankments of the Seine sound like some wooden sound stage because they are a wooden sound stage. It would have been so much better in the real setting. But I guess no camera or cameraman ever set one tip of a foot in Paris. That's what I regret about this mythic film: it does not carry nor convey the feeling and smell of reality. But a rather funny entertainment if you like forgetting about the real world.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Paris 8 Saint Denis, University Paris 12 Créteil, CEGID
 Great! September 18, 2009
C. Kent (Birmingham, AL)
DVD arrived promptly and in condition described by seller. Enjoyed watching it with my roommates who loved it!
An American in Paris September 18, 2009
Manuel Fernandez
Everything was great. I ordered three movies: An American in Paris, Meet Me in St. Louis and Oklahoma. I enjoyed them thouroughly. Everything arrived in a timely matter and the merchandise was in great condition.
S'wonderful! September 9, 2009
Dennis (New York, NY USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Always a pleasure to see Kelly on film at his best. Leslie Caron, in her first film, made it very clear it wasn't going to be her last.
excelletn August 25, 2009
A. Saxton (Iowa)
Great service, got it in good time and in good shape. Very impressed with the seller!
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