American World War II veteran Jerry Mulligan, his friend and neighbor Adam Cook and French singer Henri Baurel struggle to find work in Paris. However, things become more complicated when two of them fall in love with the same woman, wealthy Milo Roberts.
April 25, 1942 in France
6 June 1910, Paris, France
June 21, 1879 in New York City, New York, USA
January 21, 1921 in Paris, France
8 September 1893, Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]
February 15, 1929 in Detroit, Michigan, USA
27 December 1906, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
March 15, 1907 in Wheaton, Illinois, USA
8 February 1915, Alexandria, Egypt
March 5, 1890 in Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
May 7, 1942 in USA
7 November 1889, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
November 23, 1898 in Sherman, Texas, USA
24 June 1922, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
27 November 1925, Illinois, USA
20 April 1913, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
30 March 1888, Ystad, Skåne län, Sweden
October 25, 1907 in Tripoli, Greece
23 August 1912, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
4 March 1905, Chicago, Illinois, USA
30 August 1904, San Francisco, California, USA
February 23, 1902 in Canandaigua, New York, USA
6 November 1914
20 April 1924, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
February 22, 2015
One of the great MGM musicals.
January 25, 2011
Gene Kelly remains one of the best and brightest of the Golden Era musical stars and An American in Paris shows him in fine form.
February 19, 2008
One of the most imaginative musical confections turned out by Hollywood in years.
February 22, 2015
Inspired by the late George Gershwin's impressionistic musical suite of the same name, the picture is one of the finest musicals Hollywood has ever produced.
December 12, 2006
While not nearly the musical it's cracked up to be, this 1951 film is absolutely required viewing for anyone who wants to see the studio system (MGM style) at its gaudiest, most Byzantine height.
June 04, 2013
...its defining trait is insistence.
October 30, 2011
The Gershwin songs are magnificent, and the climactic ballet a tour de force that won the great Hungarian-born cameraman John Alton an Oscar.
February 03, 2014
It still looks pretty good today, with marvellous Technicolored design, athletic dancing from Kelly and a superb Gershwin score, but some sequences have dated.
February 22, 2015
It's hard not to be charmed by Gene Kelly's featherweight smiles and amazing dancing. But the film as a whole is -- and let no one contradict me on this -- a complete trifle.
February 22, 2015
Imperfect, then, but intermittently awe-inspiring.
December 06, 2016
The first three-quarters might be at best B-tier Freed Unit filmmaking, but those last 18 minutes are as precious as anything produced by studio-era Hollywood.
