@ChocolateFrogPrince "Fun fact" is a figure of speech. Moron. I only meant that it was interesting, considering you could never tell that from watching this movie.
@claretothe10th Given the grave nature of her condition and the events from which they transpired the correct "figure of speech" [or phraseology since this is a written and not spoken forum] would be "interesting fact"
To term something as "fun" from a genocidal global war and an occupation that bordered on slavery is the real expression of moronicism here.
@ChocolateFrogPrince Someone so obviously insensitive to such matters and so ignorant of basic English would do far better to keep themselves to themselves rather than cutting and pasting bits of trivia verbatim from the IMDB website to aggrandise themselves on meaningless messageboards....
Leslie Caron suffered from malnutrition during WWII and couldn't keep up with the rigorous filming schedule, and could only work every other day. Fun fact.
An utter masterpiece of beauty, grace, and utter magnificence. The most transcendent, enigmatic, ethereal dance sequence & choreography ever set to cinema by 2 magical legends. Gene Kelly & Leslie Caron soar here & crafted exquisite poetry without equal. Beyond breathtaking..and sublime.
I have always loved Gene in this BUT...I don't think I ever gave Leslie the credit she deserved until I just received this on blue ray for my birthday and I watched it again. She was an AMAZING athelete!
@Belle0308 Watch her in Daddy Long Legs with Astaire. The story goes that he worked her so hard in rehearsals that her feet bled and she was constantly reduced to tears through pressure and exhaustion. On camera however she was the epitome of youthful grace and joy. Easily one of the most underrated dancers of her time, was Caron. But my God! This routine twangs underwear elastic of both genders at 60 paces!
Gershwin, Kelly and Caron. It could only be magic. It could only be genius. It could only be S'wonderful. Leslie Caron was the most beautiful woman I had ever scene when I first watched this movie. Thank you all so much for giving us this gift.
Pure Magic! That trumpet solo by Uan Rasey is so jazz powerful & soulful! Gene Kelly's choreography was at its best in this film & Caron was a great ingenue. This ballet was totally beautiful, more sensual than over-the-top sexy & Vincente Minnelli's direction was on point. The staging of color is so vibrant! He should've won the Oscar. I've heard different renditions of Gershwins An American in Paris by major symphonic halls; I just close my eyes & think of Gene Kelly and this film.
@hellasexy22 He did win an Oscar. In fact, the Academy was so impressed that, when they realised there was no category in existence to acknowledge Kelly's achievements in this film they created one.
In total An American in Paris earned six Academy Awards.
Can anyone please tell me exactly which album this is on ?. I just went through the full ost on I-tunes and can't find this version, by far the best . Thanks in advance :)
@ChocolateFrogPrince I can't seem to find a soundtrack album with this version on ,just variations . Do you know which album it's on and what the actual track is called ? . Thanks
@ChocolateFrogPrince Amazon is your friend, though the album is not cheap a nd this piece, which is one part of the movement called An American in Paris Ballet, is only available on the album and not to download [the whole thing is 16 minutes unedited]. I have never seen this in an edited form on any other album, though there may be Gershwin anthologies [best of etc] which contain it.
Check out the Leonard Bernstein CD called 'Bernstein Century - Gershwin" from Amazon (only $8.36!). It's not the Movie soundtrack, but it does have the complete 18:31 version of the American in Paris symphony as well as a 16:32 version of Rhapsody in Blue AND the complete Grand Canyon Suite! I listen to it at work to drown out all of the crap the world throws at me.
Why not keep the actual soundtrack music (Gershwin) instead of superimposing lesser stuff. Also, Leslie Caron's return is not due to a change of heard, but (if you watched the movie closely) because her fiance, a friend of Jerry, has actually heard thei. Being a noble sort, he couldn't marry someone he knew loved someone else.
Agreed, this could not and never will be improved upon. Hey, there will never be another Gene Kelly. That face, that body, that perfect toosh !!!! I just watched this on TCM for the 5th time last nite. Oscar Levant ' s dream scene was the best !!!!
The Kelly/Caron ballet will NEVER be matched, ever !!!!!
This ends with Kelly focusing on a discarded rose, symbolizing the love that has escaped him. The film should have ended on that poignant, melancholy note. No. The following scene shows the girl running, arms outstretched, towards him, with her fiance smiling in the background. She had a change of heart on the way to the wedding, and her fiance was instantly happy to let her go. The classic musicals had more potential, but they were bent for the dimmest audience.
@smurfblood On the contrary. The focus on the rose is as you say Jerry Mulligan considering the love he believes lost, but the close of the film is not, as you say, a nod at the dimmest members of the audience. Rather it is the following of the traditions of the genre, that true love wins out and there is always a happy ending.
These films are modern day romantic fairytales. They preceeded the far more cynical film making that you suggest and concentrated instead on sending the audiences home uplifted. they don't treat the audience like fools. They recognise that everyone needs a little hope that sometimes things work out.
@smurfblood I could not disagree more. This is romantic idealism at its perfection. Every love story should have a happy ending, and the hero should always win the heart and hand of his heart's desire. They just don't make them like this anymore. This movie could not possibly be improved upon!
As a kid this was one of my favorite movies. I would see it on PBS. When VHS first came out this was the first one I made my mom buy for me. That's right I'm ancient and I still love this film.
Pure Magic. This feels contempory even now. ....and that trumpet sounds like it's come from the Gods. The final 17 minute ballet of this film combining the symphony and impressionistic settings is just spellbinding. I could watch it 100 times are never get bored of it (well...I have watched it 100 times)!
Sexiest and most romantic scene in cinematic history, and they don't even take off their clothes! Damn you, Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron, for setting the bar so high!!
@kyoungmb10 I agree, except my favorite actual love scene is Grant and Bergman in Notorious 1946, Hitchcock, when he comes to rescue her at end of movie, velvety, creamy black and white huge closeup fm their shoulders up, their faces, whispering to each other, caresses, as he tries to gather her up fm the bed (she's weak fm being slowly poisoned). That's it ! No nudity or swallowing of body parts.
"Citizen Kane" is a mediocre film, because it has virtually no subject matter. Which is to say, it is about almost nothing. Not nothing, but almost nothing. Cinematography can't make up for lack of substance. "An American in Paris" is certainly a good film and a creative film. But I think you'll find "critical consensus" lacking on either of these films. Besides, the important thing is not what critical consensus believes, but what you believe.
@jockdoubleday I believe that far too many people express far too many opinions as fact when they are anything but. People say far too much far too loudly about absolutely nothing, and that the world is full of sounding brasses that amount to an infinite deal of nothing.
Okay I admit everytime American in Paris, Singing in the Rain, and The Band Wagon come on I try to watch them along with Sweet Charity. Great movies. The Sammy Davis part in Sweet Charity is hilarious. Astaire, Kelly, Charisse, and Caron made great movies.
Now, this is what I call, "Dancing with the Stars." I was always facinated with Kelly and Astaire when I was a child although their movies were way before my time. I remember watching them on TV with my mother. Our local TV station used to run old movies every night after the news. I remember being so glued to the screen whenever there was a Kelly or Astaire movie on because they always looked so glamorous and elegant when they danced. You'll never see these type of movies or "stars" again.
@CleanupQueen Go to Ebay and buy them on VHS if you still have a VCR you value. Most DVD transfers are lazy, fm video tapes or inferior in some other way. I think people are so hurting economically, so more up for sale and some even cheaper than usual. Read seller's policies and assurances, look at rating to get higher quality, ask questions. I have this movie, Singing in Rain, many others, even Doris & Rock's Pillow Talk, a video out in 1988, brand new in cellophane.
@bon1042 Thank you. I'll have to do just that. My 19 year old daughter and 10 year old son will never watch them with me though, lol. Like, I said when I was 10, I was always into the old musicals and old movies in general. Thanks again.
Brilliant once again!!! One thing I love about this scene is how effortlessly this routine is performed by Kelly and Caron. The ever so light hand grab as Leslie runs at 0:46 is so good that it blows my mind. So delicate and so smooth in how she runs and how Kelly times it beatifully. Doesn't get any better then this folks. Long live Gene and Leslie. Kelly would be amazed today to know that people treasure his amazing work!!!!
@ChocolateFrogPrince Yeah bun heads are rarely sensual, If they are, they normally become modern dancers. Ballet too one dimensional. I agree with your comment about celebrity ballroom comps. Although really pro comps decades ago had an element of true art to them, the superficial choreography and execution of today ruins the genre. I switched years ago because i thought it was bad then, if i was a ballroom dancer 2day i would kill myself. It looks like cheerleading
@bobfelcher True of many twirlies, but those are the ones who end up in the corps. Very competant but lacking that little bit of magic that makes one Prima. Just like any performer, whether an actor singer or dancer, find one who uses the movements to express an emotion rather than just transitioning from pose to pose and you'll find the one who can press all the sensual buttons. Flipping nutcases though.
I am SO GLAD someone else feels this way. I can NOT watch 'Dancing With...' it makes me want to PUKE...but not nearly as much as 'SO YOU THINK....' Both prgograms are an insult to true dancers, such as Kelly, O'Conner, Astaire....Cyd Charisse (OMG..the LEGS!) and Leslie Caron and Debbie Reynolds..... THIS MAN...Gene Kelly is the man to watch if you want to see REAL STYLE...NO ONE else can come close...and in todays world...forget it.
@witchitait Dance shows today pure exploitation. Competitions same way. There is reason behind the movement of Kelly & Astaire on many levels that "dancers" today have no clue about. The movie "Strictly Ballroom" was practically a documentary, todays ballroom dancers are almost moronic and the genre has become a joke. I hear dancers trash certain things about the old dancers& style and realize they have no clue. This is dancing that translates REAL EMOTION
@witchitait "Cyd Charisse.... OMG the LEGS !! I'm chuckling with agreement. Have you seen the one in the smoky club where she's wearing that red number and she almost kicks his teeth out !! My God, and the sticks banging on the drums as she does those quick moves. I'm on my knees in worship of it. I was a kid and wld see these movies in gorgeous Colonial Theatre, thick red velvet stage curtains, big brass rails as well as in the balcony. Twenty five cents on Sunday 3:00 p.m. matinee !!
I LOVE the music in this scene, it's so romantic and hot! A very beautiful song also. And the dark silhouettes at the beginning just make my heart melt, this scene is just brilliant :)
Coo - thank you for sharing this. Romance, sensuality...this clip just embodies it. It is the textbook definition of poetry in motion. I agree ChocolateFrogPrince - wrong era for me too. This is grace and beauty personified.
@ChocolateFrogPrince I was one of few straight dancers but the best were often straight because that was the basis of dance, man pursing woman. In ballroom all the top men straight, Latin used to be the same, Baryshnikov straight, lots of Broadway dancers ditto.
@ChocolateFrogPrince It's part of the ongoing coopted-by-the-media/mainstream culture male backlash against second wave of the women's movement. Remember things like "REAL Men don't eat quiche!"?? The puerile frat boy culture of misogyny permeates everything, oozing into every aspect of the media and is now accepted as normal.... and keeps being ratcheted up.
@ChocolateFrogPrince You're a poet CFP !! .... "swimming in Gershwin's ocean.... exquisite. All the comments and your responses are so wonderful to read. This love scene is right up there w/my favorite... Hitchcock's Notorious, Bergman and Grant... when he comes to Ilsa, she's being slowly poisoned.... he gathers her in his arms and the black/white creamy closeup of those two, whispering to each other w/gentle caresses, finally declaring their love, No nudity or swallowing each other.
For me it is any scene with Bogart and Bacall. That woman could snap heartstrings at a hundred paces. Bogart was tough but no one had a chance against that velvet voice. Watching her was like watching panther stalk its prey. Only Kim Novak had a similar effect. Her tongue in cheek seduction in Pal Joey was sublime, and the most bewitching thing of all in Bell Book and Candle.
Oh yes. Brief Encounter. How to have a love affair.
And for the record I love quiche and make it very well. The trick is to caramelise the onions first . I have also learned that those prosletysing on the virtues of manhood are too often intellectually challenged and emotionally stunted. They can't help it. It's tough in the shallow end of the gene pool. Any man worth a carrot knows that to cook for the woman he loves something that isn't a carcass on a spit will melt her as surely as chocolate held in the hand.
Relax. Only a complete pleb whales on someone for a typo. Smelling pistakes are a different matter altogether.
Back on topic however, take a look at It's Always Fair Weather. Largely overlooked, it has deeper themes than many musicals. Then again, that may be why it's often ignored.
@intrec1 I agree.... always wondered very same thing! And I was 9 and about 12 when they came out, S I R in 1950 or '51 I think and A I P about 1954 (?)
@DanceProForever There's not enough passion in COMMERCIAL music anymore. Music's a big world and alot of people live on it. These days you have to go a huntin', but the good stuff is out there. You're way too young to be that cynical. But thankfully you're also young enough to do something about it.
Find people who think as you do and change things, or go support those who try. Your generation own tomorrow. It's up to you what you do with it.
one of the best movies of all time - the Gershwin score is still so intensely beautiful; then Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron, and of course, Oscar Levant, one of the best players of Gershwin that ever was
I agree...this is definitely a class act. Sensual without being vulgar. The folks on DWTS and other ballroom dance shows could learn a thing or two from this movie.
ChocolateFrogPrince, How I love your comments at top. Take note, crappy American culture of today. The contest dancers do everything but actually copulate. The women are almost naked (nothing against lovely bodies). BUT, this IS how it is done ! I remember sitting in the Colonial Theatre, brass rails, red velvet seats as a 12 yr old watching this and I was mesmerized.
@bon1042 Actually I agree w u, but at its basis Latin dancing is copulation as that is the true history. Men would come out of the fields to go to a dance and the women would not wear underwear and they did it disguising it as dance. The male attracted the women just like a peacock and then...So Latin alludes to the origins with elements of simulated sex. However it has now turned into a total farce, w the man/woman connection lost to "performing tricks"
@bon1042 god if i was only there i remember my gran telling me once that she went to see both an american in paris and singing in the rain god shes lucky and still liveing to this day
@bon1042 I can relate "Bon". It was my favorite movie for years, and Gene Kelly was my idol. (Singing in the Rain, and his Broadway Melody ballet with Cyd Charisse was great too, but this scene topped them all.) By the way, I was born in 9/42....
I saw this for the first time in a revival art movie theater when I was ten years old and I was mesmerized by the power and beauty of the dance. Nearly 50 years later for me and it is as powerful as ever.
recovering16, yes, I do love all the old musical films. I love "Singing in the Rain" how can on beat that scene with the Gene Kelly and the umbrella in the rain? Many scenes in that film are stunning. I love that one with Cid C. and the scarf. The setting is so surreal/artistic. I love old Astaire and Kelly films particularly. I like one Astaire film, where he dances alone with a hat stand; amazing stuff! They both were such smooth dancers. I think I saw "That's Entertainment"..I will check.
recovering16, yes, I fully agree. I love this scene the best. It's wonderfully danced and shot on film. Glad to see it on here and now in one of my playlists, to enjoy over and over again.
Art, do you also like Singing in the Rain? And how about That's Entertainment (the first - and the best)...talking about great scenes with Astaire and Kelly, this is a great showcase.
She's just written an autobiography. I've not read it yet, but it sounds really interesting. She will also be appearing in A Little Night Music in Paris in February 2010. Amazing woman.
Definitely. Just FYI, my other favorites of hers were Daddy Long Legs and The L-Shaped Room. But, here with Gene...this will always be (for me) her greatest film...
@recovering16 Your comment was 11 mos ago, but I had to respond. Daddy Long Legs was a favorite of mine too.... I can still picture myself sitting in the dark theatre watching Leslie Caron and Fred Astaire dancing, on an elegant balconyI think, as he sang Something's Gotta' Give. She was wearing a simple filmy sort of light periwinkle knee length dress I think.
I love this movie. I like Singing in the Rain more, but this is certainly a masterpiece as well. Old movies like this, the good ones, should be the inspartion of modern films, not what the movies are doing (atleast most), which is the exact opposite. Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, and Gene Kelly are some of the most talented actors ever.
I remember I was watching a documentary on the golden age of musicals and the conductor or something along those lines says he'll always remember the trumpeter they had for this sequence because it was "from the gut". After viewing this scene again I become intoxicated thanks to the visuals and music. Thank you for the post.
Technically, it is excellent. It's a pity the new Blue Ray version was not remastered in 5.1 sound rather than mono (and retains original 1.3:1 aspect ratio). Musically, the numbers are spectacular - it is like a non-stop Gershwin video clip but the story lets it down. Any passion is given away to an obsession with the magic of the then new "technicolour" dream. "Singing in Rain" had a documentary style story background.
There's no way Am. in Paris is a "perfect movie." It's very good, but perfect? No fucking way. Kane might have a right to that title, but not Am. in Paris.
Singin' in the Rain is a superior film on every level. Better choreography. Better script. Better songs. Better story. In my opinion.
Just re-watched this movie tonight. I enjoyed it very much. This scene is my all-time favorite - very sexy, sensual. I am glad to see it on Youtube so I can watch it whenever I feel like it. This scene is such a classic. Leslie was adorable and very sexy at such a young age. Kelly always excelled at his dancing. A very unique movie - fun and romantic! They don't make um like this anymore.
You said it all, art. Isn't this great - to be able to see these scenes on You Tube once again - and to learn that other people had the same visceral reaction to certain scenes that I did?
Dear God in Heaven that is wonderful! They don't make films like this anymore. Bravo to Gene and Leslie! But a big thank you to the director Vincent Minnelli! You can always tell a Minnelli film.. they are simply beautiful!
It's not just the dance. The set, the lighting, the quality of the orchestra, the colours, the clothes, the wacky sculptures and the whole other worldliness quality that it has, all add up to something quite extraordinary. The rest of the film has never been a favourite of mine, but this scene is one of Hollywood's all time masterpieces the likes of which will never be made again.
that man with the trumpet is the only guy who ever played that solo with soul. you can hear it. in the other versions, the guys are just playing the tune, theres no soul.
but this guy- Uan Rasey, someone said- he's got it, plain n' simple
Not only the great dancing, but the cinematography that captured the mood and color of the movie's setting here in the center of Paris on the famous Place de la Concorde made the city itself a stunning part of it all. And of course Leslie Caron, the French star of the Roland Petite Ballet Cie,, with her beauty, was able to captivate us and enhanced Gene Kelly's movements and appeal. Great, great film.
Jesus - this is SO beautiful! First saw it as a kid with my parents and it still sends tingles down my spine. I couldn't wait to grow up and have one of those gorgeous things - alas I never did get a fountain!
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VjArkiv 2 weeks ago
Does anybody know the name of this song?
seashore961 3 weeks ago
@seashore961 An American in Paris.
It's often confused with Rhapsody
ChocolateFrogPrince 3 weeks ago
the scene where everyone is dressed in black and white is the most stylish ever put on film. would love to go to a party like that.
darkarts59 3 months ago
Awesome ! the music the place the actors every thing .
handal1973 4 months ago
so so so so so good.......nothing beats gershwin and gene kelly
goldberrysusan 4 months ago
@ChocolateFrogPrince "Fun fact" is a figure of speech. Moron. I only meant that it was interesting, considering you could never tell that from watching this movie.
claretothe10th 4 months ago
@claretothe10th Given the grave nature of her condition and the events from which they transpired the correct "figure of speech" [or phraseology since this is a written and not spoken forum] would be "interesting fact"
To term something as "fun" from a genocidal global war and an occupation that bordered on slavery is the real expression of moronicism here.
ChocolateFrogPrince 4 months ago
@ChocolateFrogPrince Someone so obviously insensitive to such matters and so ignorant of basic English would do far better to keep themselves to themselves rather than cutting and pasting bits of trivia verbatim from the IMDB website to aggrandise themselves on meaningless messageboards....
ChocolateFrogPrince 4 months ago
Leslie Caron suffered from malnutrition during WWII and couldn't keep up with the rigorous filming schedule, and could only work every other day. Fun fact.
claretothe10th 4 months ago
@claretothe10th Fun? I'll bet she was laughing all day long about that one...
ChocolateFrogPrince 4 months ago
Just plain gorgeous on every level.
faliklunj 5 months ago
Trumpet solo played by the great Uan Rasey.
DisneyWay1 6 months ago
An utter masterpiece of beauty, grace, and utter magnificence. The most transcendent, enigmatic, ethereal dance sequence & choreography ever set to cinema by 2 magical legends. Gene Kelly & Leslie Caron soar here & crafted exquisite poetry without equal. Beyond breathtaking..and sublime.
arweiss100 6 months ago
I have always loved Gene in this BUT...I don't think I ever gave Leslie the credit she deserved until I just received this on blue ray for my birthday and I watched it again. She was an AMAZING athelete!
Belle0308 7 months ago
@Belle0308 Watch her in Daddy Long Legs with Astaire. The story goes that he worked her so hard in rehearsals that her feet bled and she was constantly reduced to tears through pressure and exhaustion. On camera however she was the epitome of youthful grace and joy. Easily one of the most underrated dancers of her time, was Caron. But my God! This routine twangs underwear elastic of both genders at 60 paces!
ChocolateFrogPrince 7 months ago
@ChocolateFrogPrince
that was Debbie Reynolds in Singin In the Rain
msmvnj 2 months ago
@msmvnj I don't understand. What's your point?
ChocolateFrogPrince 2 months ago
this carries my soul with it.
TheBobbybbb111 8 months ago
Gershwin, Kelly and Caron. It could only be magic. It could only be genius. It could only be S'wonderful. Leslie Caron was the most beautiful woman I had ever scene when I first watched this movie. Thank you all so much for giving us this gift.
tharawal 8 months ago
movies should be made like how they were used to :] they looked so pretty even the tragic dramas
Belindagirl13 9 months ago
Beauty-strength-fluid grace-poetry in motion.
Flickchaser 9 months ago
Magic.
Nighthawk5210 10 months ago
@Boof5555 LOL! You're right on point with everything said! Gene Kelly was hella sexy, for real!
hellasexy22 10 months ago
Pure Magic! That trumpet solo by Uan Rasey is so jazz powerful & soulful! Gene Kelly's choreography was at its best in this film & Caron was a great ingenue. This ballet was totally beautiful, more sensual than over-the-top sexy & Vincente Minnelli's direction was on point. The staging of color is so vibrant! He should've won the Oscar. I've heard different renditions of Gershwins An American in Paris by major symphonic halls; I just close my eyes & think of Gene Kelly and this film.
hellasexy22 10 months ago 8
@hellasexy22 He did win an Oscar. In fact, the Academy was so impressed that, when they realised there was no category in existence to acknowledge Kelly's achievements in this film they created one.
In total An American in Paris earned six Academy Awards.
ChocolateFrogPrince 10 months ago 6
@hellasexy22 What is style? neoclassical ballet?
xronxselenita 10 months ago
What is style? neoclassical ballet?
xronxselenita 10 months ago
Can anyone please tell me exactly which album this is on ?. I just went through the full ost on I-tunes and can't find this version, by far the best . Thanks in advance :)
LibertinaUno 11 months ago
@LibertinaUno Have you considered buying the soundtrack?
ChocolateFrogPrince 11 months ago
@ChocolateFrogPrince I can't seem to find a soundtrack album with this version on ,just variations . Do you know which album it's on and what the actual track is called ? . Thanks
LibertinaUno 10 months ago
@ChocolateFrogPrince Amazon is your friend, though the album is not cheap a nd this piece, which is one part of the movement called An American in Paris Ballet, is only available on the album and not to download [the whole thing is 16 minutes unedited]. I have never seen this in an edited form on any other album, though there may be Gershwin anthologies [best of etc] which contain it.
ChocolateFrogPrince 10 months ago
@LibertinaUno
Check out the Leonard Bernstein CD called 'Bernstein Century - Gershwin" from Amazon (only $8.36!). It's not the Movie soundtrack, but it does have the complete 18:31 version of the American in Paris symphony as well as a 16:32 version of Rhapsody in Blue AND the complete Grand Canyon Suite! I listen to it at work to drown out all of the crap the world throws at me.
ch8458 8 months ago
@loydkoh826 Someone should introduce us to Judie...
ChocolateFrogPrince 11 months ago
Brillent this is my second video to day with Gene kelly
Fantastic video wonderful piece of music
Thanks Judie for sharing
lauredean100 11 months ago
@lauredean100 Who's Judie?
ChocolateFrogPrince 11 months ago
@ChocolateFrogPrince
i am... sorry for confusion! Judie
gfks11 11 months ago
Thanks Lee for sending... i read her awesome interpretations about the dance.. very interesting... it's such a cool performance anyhow!!
gfks11 11 months ago
@gfks11 Lee?
ChocolateFrogPrince 11 months ago
@ChocolateFrogPrince
The friend who sent me:))
gfks11 11 months ago
This dance number parallels the red shoes ballet. Among the greatest dance numbers in film history. What a joy!
MegaFreh 11 months ago
Why not keep the actual soundtrack music (Gershwin) instead of superimposing lesser stuff. Also, Leslie Caron's return is not due to a change of heard, but (if you watched the movie closely) because her fiance, a friend of Jerry, has actually heard thei. Being a noble sort, he couldn't marry someone he knew loved someone else.
cawinitsky 11 months ago
@cawinitsky What are you talking about? Lesser stuff? Are you deaf?
ChocolateFrogPrince 11 months ago
Agreed, this could not and never will be improved upon. Hey, there will never be another Gene Kelly. That face, that body, that perfect toosh !!!! I just watched this on TCM for the 5th time last nite. Oscar Levant ' s dream scene was the best !!!!
The Kelly/Caron ballet will NEVER be matched, ever !!!!!
Boof5555 11 months ago
This is the ending of the ballet.
tmax45R 1 year ago
This ends with Kelly focusing on a discarded rose, symbolizing the love that has escaped him. The film should have ended on that poignant, melancholy note. No. The following scene shows the girl running, arms outstretched, towards him, with her fiance smiling in the background. She had a change of heart on the way to the wedding, and her fiance was instantly happy to let her go. The classic musicals had more potential, but they were bent for the dimmest audience.
smurfblood 1 year ago
@smurfblood On the contrary. The focus on the rose is as you say Jerry Mulligan considering the love he believes lost, but the close of the film is not, as you say, a nod at the dimmest members of the audience. Rather it is the following of the traditions of the genre, that true love wins out and there is always a happy ending.
ChocolateFrogPrince 1 year ago
@ChocolateFrogPrince
These films are modern day romantic fairytales. They preceeded the far more cynical film making that you suggest and concentrated instead on sending the audiences home uplifted. they don't treat the audience like fools. They recognise that everyone needs a little hope that sometimes things work out.
ChocolateFrogPrince 1 year ago
That was very well written...thank you for that.
Highnoon59 1 year ago
@smurfblood I could not disagree more. This is romantic idealism at its perfection. Every love story should have a happy ending, and the hero should always win the heart and hand of his heart's desire. They just don't make them like this anymore. This movie could not possibly be improved upon!
Jesrbryant 11 months ago
An absolute all-time favorite...
jcsiegelman 1 year ago
i could come on this
KOLSARNIT 1 year ago
trumpet from heaven
citizenonemillion 1 year ago
kelly is the man
xhellonhighheels69x 1 year ago
This is superb.
cattleman6420012000 1 year ago
I really love this.
cattleman6420012000 1 year ago
that trumpet sound is so sensual it's driving me nuts! long live Uan Rasey for being such a brilliant musician!
i adore the combination of red light, trumpet and her moving leg way up high- that is such a perfect scene!!!!
ajdukujac 1 year ago
@ajdukujac 1:18
ajdukujac 1 year ago
As a kid this was one of my favorite movies. I would see it on PBS. When VHS first came out this was the first one I made my mom buy for me. That's right I'm ancient and I still love this film.
cosmicurious522 1 year ago
Gene Kelly was brilliant
Auntkekebaby 1 year ago
Pure Magic. This feels contempory even now. ....and that trumpet sounds like it's come from the Gods. The final 17 minute ballet of this film combining the symphony and impressionistic settings is just spellbinding. I could watch it 100 times are never get bored of it (well...I have watched it 100 times)!
britishcitizen777 1 year ago
Sexiest and most romantic scene in cinematic history, and they don't even take off their clothes! Damn you, Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron, for setting the bar so high!!
Megan Fox has nothing on Leslie.
kyoungmb10 1 year ago 23
@kyoungmb10 I agree, except my favorite actual love scene is Grant and Bergman in Notorious 1946, Hitchcock, when he comes to rescue her at end of movie, velvety, creamy black and white huge closeup fm their shoulders up, their faces, whispering to each other, caresses, as he tries to gather her up fm the bed (she's weak fm being slowly poisoned). That's it ! No nudity or swallowing of body parts.
bon1042 1 year ago
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Have two people ever been more beautiful together on screen?
kingward100 1 year ago
ChocolateFrogPrince well said! :)
Ameryes 1 year ago
G-rated lovemaking??
At any rate, it's sublime!!
mca1218 1 year ago
"Citizen Kane" is a mediocre film, because it has virtually no subject matter. Which is to say, it is about almost nothing. Not nothing, but almost nothing. Cinematography can't make up for lack of substance. "An American in Paris" is certainly a good film and a creative film. But I think you'll find "critical consensus" lacking on either of these films. Besides, the important thing is not what critical consensus believes, but what you believe.
jockdoubleday 1 year ago
@jockdoubleday I believe that far too many people express far too many opinions as fact when they are anything but. People say far too much far too loudly about absolutely nothing, and that the world is full of sounding brasses that amount to an infinite deal of nothing.
ChocolateFrogPrince 1 year ago 21
Okay I admit everytime American in Paris, Singing in the Rain, and The Band Wagon come on I try to watch them along with Sweet Charity. Great movies. The Sammy Davis part in Sweet Charity is hilarious. Astaire, Kelly, Charisse, and Caron made great movies.
onehart99 1 year ago
Now, this is what I call, "Dancing with the Stars." I was always facinated with Kelly and Astaire when I was a child although their movies were way before my time. I remember watching them on TV with my mother. Our local TV station used to run old movies every night after the news. I remember being so glued to the screen whenever there was a Kelly or Astaire movie on because they always looked so glamorous and elegant when they danced. You'll never see these type of movies or "stars" again.
CleanupQueen 1 year ago
@CleanupQueen Go to Ebay and buy them on VHS if you still have a VCR you value. Most DVD transfers are lazy, fm video tapes or inferior in some other way. I think people are so hurting economically, so more up for sale and some even cheaper than usual. Read seller's policies and assurances, look at rating to get higher quality, ask questions. I have this movie, Singing in Rain, many others, even Doris & Rock's Pillow Talk, a video out in 1988, brand new in cellophane.
bon1042 1 year ago
@bon1042 Thank you. I'll have to do just that. My 19 year old daughter and 10 year old son will never watch them with me though, lol. Like, I said when I was 10, I was always into the old musicals and old movies in general. Thanks again.
CleanupQueen 1 year ago
Brilliant once again!!! One thing I love about this scene is how effortlessly this routine is performed by Kelly and Caron. The ever so light hand grab as Leslie runs at 0:46 is so good that it blows my mind. So delicate and so smooth in how she runs and how Kelly times it beatifully. Doesn't get any better then this folks. Long live Gene and Leslie. Kelly would be amazed today to know that people treasure his amazing work!!!!
demm80s 1 year ago
one of the best pictures ever made. can not believe vincente minnelli did not win the oscar for this one. he did win for gigi.
dflartist 1 year ago
What a masterpiece. The perfect marriage of cinematography and dance
dextersmith2000 1 year ago
why does she look different in gigi
selenabritroma 1 year ago
Classic Erotic!
Rishihu 1 year ago
OH MY GOD!!!!
HOT!!!
WOW!
Susie
8mycrab 1 year ago
@8mycrab Uh-huh...
;o)
ChocolateFrogPrince 1 year ago
Hauntingly beautiful. I first saw this as a kid - I was prepubescent when I went in the cinema - post pubescent when I came out.
zthetha 1 year ago 3
The dancing is all very good and all but I just really like Minnelli's colour usage. ^^
TVfreakje1 1 year ago
@TVfreakje1 that's a VERY good point on colour usage, I agree entirely. Put it al together and.... perfection.
bon1042 1 year ago
@bon1042 I licked the colours and the wack dancing though I thought the ending was rather dissapointing.
TVfreakje1 1 year ago
One comment - don't be ashamed to like this scene - it's sappy but sapp - is where it's at - that's part of being human you hypocrytes...jeez...
thebluespirit123 1 year ago
one of my all time favorites..... Uber romantic, totally sensual... you can FEEL the heat coming off of them and not in a bad way. <3
histechnoangel 1 year ago 2
To me this is the most sexiest and romantic scene ever! The kept it clean classy and full of strong and graceful moves. Just wonderful.
moroccansunshine 1 year ago
Caron and Kelly....OMG I get the goosebumps !!!!!!!!! The Best movie EVER
Boof5555 1 year ago
Many people that I know don't believe that ballet dancers can be sensual. Oh, how wrong they are...
SilverInsanity 1 year ago 4
@SilverInsanity I've known many, lived with two and almost married one.
To a woman they are neurotic bloody lunatics, but sensual? Oh my...
ChocolateFrogPrince 1 year ago
@ChocolateFrogPrince Yeah bun heads are rarely sensual, If they are, they normally become modern dancers. Ballet too one dimensional. I agree with your comment about celebrity ballroom comps. Although really pro comps decades ago had an element of true art to them, the superficial choreography and execution of today ruins the genre. I switched years ago because i thought it was bad then, if i was a ballroom dancer 2day i would kill myself. It looks like cheerleading
bobfelcher 1 year ago
@bobfelcher True of many twirlies, but those are the ones who end up in the corps. Very competant but lacking that little bit of magic that makes one Prima. Just like any performer, whether an actor singer or dancer, find one who uses the movements to express an emotion rather than just transitioning from pose to pose and you'll find the one who can press all the sensual buttons. Flipping nutcases though.
I blame a lack of food.
ChocolateFrogPrince 1 year ago
@ChocolateFrogPrince I suppose it depends on the ballet, though. For example, Sylvie Guillem in Manon's Bedroom Pas de Deux from the first act.
SilverInsanity 1 year ago
@bobfelcher OMG.
I am SO GLAD someone else feels this way. I can NOT watch 'Dancing With...' it makes me want to PUKE...but not nearly as much as 'SO YOU THINK....' Both prgograms are an insult to true dancers, such as Kelly, O'Conner, Astaire....Cyd Charisse (OMG..the LEGS!) and Leslie Caron and Debbie Reynolds..... THIS MAN...Gene Kelly is the man to watch if you want to see REAL STYLE...NO ONE else can come close...and in todays world...forget it.
witchitait 1 year ago
@witchitait Dance shows today pure exploitation. Competitions same way. There is reason behind the movement of Kelly & Astaire on many levels that "dancers" today have no clue about. The movie "Strictly Ballroom" was practically a documentary, todays ballroom dancers are almost moronic and the genre has become a joke. I hear dancers trash certain things about the old dancers& style and realize they have no clue. This is dancing that translates REAL EMOTION
sad it is lost today
bobfelcher 1 year ago
@witchitait "Cyd Charisse.... OMG the LEGS !! I'm chuckling with agreement. Have you seen the one in the smoky club where she's wearing that red number and she almost kicks his teeth out !! My God, and the sticks banging on the drums as she does those quick moves. I'm on my knees in worship of it. I was a kid and wld see these movies in gorgeous Colonial Theatre, thick red velvet stage curtains, big brass rails as well as in the balcony. Twenty five cents on Sunday 3:00 p.m. matinee !!
bon1042 1 year ago
this entire film is like a dream come true- everything is perfect- it's really a miracle-
eveningprim 1 year ago
George Gershwin wrote this "An American in Paris" in 1928...wonderful music, great film !
MrGunterguerrero 1 year ago
I LOVE the music in this scene, it's so romantic and hot! A very beautiful song also. And the dark silhouettes at the beginning just make my heart melt, this scene is just brilliant :)
DanceProForever 1 year ago
Coo - thank you for sharing this. Romance, sensuality...this clip just embodies it. It is the textbook definition of poetry in motion. I agree ChocolateFrogPrince - wrong era for me too. This is grace and beauty personified.
ukebec 1 year ago 2
@ukebec 2 1/2 minutes I could live in.
When did life become about getting wasted and randomly hooking up? What the hell happened to things like this?
You know what sucks the most? If you're a guy and something like this appeals, you just "have to be gay"
ARRRRGH!!!!!
;o)
ChocolateFrogPrince 1 year ago
@ChocolateFrogPrince I was one of few straight dancers but the best were often straight because that was the basis of dance, man pursing woman. In ballroom all the top men straight, Latin used to be the same, Baryshnikov straight, lots of Broadway dancers ditto.
bobfelcher 1 year ago 2
@ChocolateFrogPrince It's part of the ongoing coopted-by-the-media/mainstream culture male backlash against second wave of the women's movement. Remember things like "REAL Men don't eat quiche!"?? The puerile frat boy culture of misogyny permeates everything, oozing into every aspect of the media and is now accepted as normal.... and keeps being ratcheted up.
bon1042 1 year ago
@ukebec Kelly and Caron swimming in Gershwin's ocean.
If you aspire to greatness, emulate this.
ChocolateFrogPrince 1 year ago 3
@ChocolateFrogPrince You're a poet CFP !! .... "swimming in Gershwin's ocean.... exquisite. All the comments and your responses are so wonderful to read. This love scene is right up there w/my favorite... Hitchcock's Notorious, Bergman and Grant... when he comes to Ilsa, she's being slowly poisoned.... he gathers her in his arms and the black/white creamy closeup of those two, whispering to each other w/gentle caresses, finally declaring their love, No nudity or swallowing each other.
bon1042 1 year ago
@bon1042 You're very kind.
For me it is any scene with Bogart and Bacall. That woman could snap heartstrings at a hundred paces. Bogart was tough but no one had a chance against that velvet voice. Watching her was like watching panther stalk its prey. Only Kim Novak had a similar effect. Her tongue in cheek seduction in Pal Joey was sublime, and the most bewitching thing of all in Bell Book and Candle.
Oh yes. Brief Encounter. How to have a love affair.
Damn. I was born way too late.
ChocolateFrogPrince 1 year ago 2
@ChocolateFrogPrince
And for the record I love quiche and make it very well. The trick is to caramelise the onions first . I have also learned that those prosletysing on the virtues of manhood are too often intellectually challenged and emotionally stunted. They can't help it. It's tough in the shallow end of the gene pool. Any man worth a carrot knows that to cook for the woman he loves something that isn't a carcass on a spit will melt her as surely as chocolate held in the hand.
ChocolateFrogPrince 1 year ago
Masterpiece!
DoinelFerrand 1 year ago
** I meant "On the Town"
HSMCB1fan 1 year ago
Relax. Only a complete pleb whales on someone for a typo. Smelling pistakes are a different matter altogether.
Back on topic however, take a look at It's Always Fair Weather. Largely overlooked, it has deeper themes than many musicals. Then again, that may be why it's often ignored.
ChocolateFrogPrince 1 year ago
Another great Gene Kelly movie would be "Onw the Town". He was such a wonderful and charismatic performer.
HSMCB1fan 1 year ago
Gene Kelly was such an amazing talent--absolute style and grace.
jamesthewineguy 1 year ago
GENE KELLY is the best!
zeuslight3 1 year ago 2
Adorable. Great movie.
americangalbasseyfan 1 year ago
This movie is much better than Singing in the Rain.
I dont understand how many place Singing in the Rain above it.
intrec1 1 year ago 21
I don't either...
docterphreak 1 year ago
@intrec1 I agree.... always wondered very same thing! And I was 9 and about 12 when they came out, S I R in 1950 or '51 I think and A I P about 1954 (?)
bon1042 1 year ago
totally amazing! beautful, gene kelly was a genius in direct the 17 year old leslie caron! adore this movie!
silvershields 2 years ago 4
this is my favorite part of the whole movie
the dance sequnce between the, and the wonderful music is soooooo amazing i love it
cookieshopgirl 2 years ago 4
When i imagine the first dance at a wedding this is what I see.
Absolute passion. Absolute perfection.
God but I live in the wrong era.
ChocolateFrogPrince 2 years ago
@ChocolateFrogPrince so do i, there isn't enough genuine passion in music anymore :P and i'm 15!
DanceProForever 1 year ago
@DanceProForever There's not enough passion in COMMERCIAL music anymore. Music's a big world and alot of people live on it. These days you have to go a huntin', but the good stuff is out there. You're way too young to be that cynical. But thankfully you're also young enough to do something about it.
Find people who think as you do and change things, or go support those who try. Your generation own tomorrow. It's up to you what you do with it.
ChocolateFrogPrince 1 year ago
Great film, fell in love with Leslie Caron when i first saw the film back in the 50s, guess what? i still do ! thanks for the clip.
281308ful 2 years ago 9
one of the best movies of all time - the Gershwin score is still so intensely beautiful; then Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron, and of course, Oscar Levant, one of the best players of Gershwin that ever was
lorrainemk1 2 years ago 2
I agree...this is definitely a class act. Sensual without being vulgar. The folks on DWTS and other ballroom dance shows could learn a thing or two from this movie.
belladeballe 2 years ago 3
Seductive and wistful at the same time. Beautiful Minnelli colors and shadows. And that trumpet solo rocks. Thanks for this post.
mca1218 2 years ago 4
Me the only thing that I can say is that Gene Kelly is a genius, the Director of this movie it is also it, the movie is simply a work of art.
Startac2007 2 years ago 3
Perfection!
Nungirl238 2 years ago 4
Beautiful......... Just Beautiful!
KOLSARNIT 2 years ago 2
Brilliant!!!!!
Eye watering moment in the movie.
Thank God for Gershwin and Gene Kelly.
demm80s 2 years ago 4
ChocolateFrogPrince, How I love your comments at top. Take note, crappy American culture of today. The contest dancers do everything but actually copulate. The women are almost naked (nothing against lovely bodies). BUT, this IS how it is done ! I remember sitting in the Colonial Theatre, brass rails, red velvet seats as a 12 yr old watching this and I was mesmerized.
bon1042 2 years ago 17
@bon1042 Actually I agree w u, but at its basis Latin dancing is copulation as that is the true history. Men would come out of the fields to go to a dance and the women would not wear underwear and they did it disguising it as dance. The male attracted the women just like a peacock and then...So Latin alludes to the origins with elements of simulated sex. However it has now turned into a total farce, w the man/woman connection lost to "performing tricks"
Speaking as a former N. American champ
bobfelcher 1 year ago
@bon1042 god if i was only there i remember my gran telling me once that she went to see both an american in paris and singing in the rain god shes lucky and still liveing to this day
godfather118118 1 year ago
@bon1042 I can relate "Bon". It was my favorite movie for years, and Gene Kelly was my idol. (Singing in the Rain, and his Broadway Melody ballet with Cyd Charisse was great too, but this scene topped them all.) By the way, I was born in 9/42....
recovering16 1 year ago
Oh.... yes !!!!
bon1042 2 years ago
I saw this for the first time in a revival art movie theater when I was ten years old and I was mesmerized by the power and beauty of the dance. Nearly 50 years later for me and it is as powerful as ever.
dgniewek 2 years ago 4
This really is quite sensual. :-)
SoothingChime15 2 years ago 2
Seeing this on the big screen was about the greatest thing ever. :]
YouTalker 2 years ago 2
Just lovely!
hisbiscusrose999 2 years ago 2
recovering16, yes, I do love all the old musical films. I love "Singing in the Rain" how can on beat that scene with the Gene Kelly and the umbrella in the rain? Many scenes in that film are stunning. I love that one with Cid C. and the scarf. The setting is so surreal/artistic. I love old Astaire and Kelly films particularly. I like one Astaire film, where he dances alone with a hat stand; amazing stuff! They both were such smooth dancers. I think I saw "That's Entertainment"..I will check.
artj22850 2 years ago
recovering16, yes, I fully agree. I love this scene the best. It's wonderfully danced and shot on film. Glad to see it on here and now in one of my playlists, to enjoy over and over again.
artj22850 2 years ago
Art, do you also like Singing in the Rain? And how about That's Entertainment (the first - and the best)...talking about great scenes with Astaire and Kelly, this is a great showcase.
recovering16 2 years ago
I've just had lunch with Leslie Caron. 78 years old and in fine form.
zrepeels 2 years ago
Wow, how exciting. What wonderful stories she must have to share from her long cinematic history - both dancing and dramatic acting!!!
recovering16 2 years ago
She's just written an autobiography. I've not read it yet, but it sounds really interesting. She will also be appearing in A Little Night Music in Paris in February 2010. Amazing woman.
zrepeels 2 years ago 3
Definitely. Just FYI, my other favorites of hers were Daddy Long Legs and The L-Shaped Room. But, here with Gene...this will always be (for me) her greatest film...
recovering16 2 years ago 3
@recovering16 Your comment was 11 mos ago, but I had to respond. Daddy Long Legs was a favorite of mine too.... I can still picture myself sitting in the dark theatre watching Leslie Caron and Fred Astaire dancing, on an elegant balconyI think, as he sang Something's Gotta' Give. She was wearing a simple filmy sort of light periwinkle knee length dress I think.
bon1042 1 year ago
This is my absolute favorite part of the entire ballet!
ljb476 2 years ago
I love this movie. I like Singing in the Rain more, but this is certainly a masterpiece as well. Old movies like this, the good ones, should be the inspartion of modern films, not what the movies are doing (atleast most), which is the exact opposite. Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, and Gene Kelly are some of the most talented actors ever.
LiveByChocolate 2 years ago
I remember I was watching a documentary on the golden age of musicals and the conductor or something along those lines says he'll always remember the trumpeter they had for this sequence because it was "from the gut". After viewing this scene again I become intoxicated thanks to the visuals and music. Thank you for the post.
manlyman80345 2 years ago 2
Technically, it is excellent. It's a pity the new Blue Ray version was not remastered in 5.1 sound rather than mono (and retains original 1.3:1 aspect ratio). Musically, the numbers are spectacular - it is like a non-stop Gershwin video clip but the story lets it down. Any passion is given away to an obsession with the magic of the then new "technicolour" dream. "Singing in Rain" had a documentary style story background.
brizvegasboy 2 years ago
Art in its fullest expression.
Full of passion, beauty and good taste!
luiscnaranjo 2 years ago 3
There's no way Am. in Paris is a "perfect movie." It's very good, but perfect? No fucking way. Kane might have a right to that title, but not Am. in Paris.
Singin' in the Rain is a superior film on every level. Better choreography. Better script. Better songs. Better story. In my opinion.
shadesoflavender 2 years ago
Just re-watched this movie tonight. I enjoyed it very much. This scene is my all-time favorite - very sexy, sensual. I am glad to see it on Youtube so I can watch it whenever I feel like it. This scene is such a classic. Leslie was adorable and very sexy at such a young age. Kelly always excelled at his dancing. A very unique movie - fun and romantic! They don't make um like this anymore.
artj22850 2 years ago 3
You said it all, art. Isn't this great - to be able to see these scenes on You Tube once again - and to learn that other people had the same visceral reaction to certain scenes that I did?
recovering16 2 years ago
Ahhh, the American musical. Used to think people...somewhere...lived like this.
Then I grew up. Darn it!
Classy movie.
fossilizedone 2 years ago 2
This is so sexy!
JahalomSjachor 2 years ago 3
This part of the song and dance is very sensual. This is the first movie I ever remember watching.
cpper22008 2 years ago
July 1st. Happy Birthday Ms. Caron.
howardyearone 2 years ago 4
this is the best movie ever, gene and leslie make a wonderful couple! I LOVE THIS MOVIE!
lucilejuliet 2 years ago 6
Dear God in Heaven that is wonderful! They don't make films like this anymore. Bravo to Gene and Leslie! But a big thank you to the director Vincent Minnelli! You can always tell a Minnelli film.. they are simply beautiful!
xluckydayx 2 years ago 4
Another magnificent "pas-de-deux" og Kelly-Caron is on the River Seine bank on the theme of "Our love is here to stay"
slomoschon2000 2 years ago
I have no words to exactly describe how beautiful this dance is. But its FUCKING AMAZING!!! I love gene kelly!!!! <33333
RottenBrains71 2 years ago 3
It's not just the dance. The set, the lighting, the quality of the orchestra, the colours, the clothes, the wacky sculptures and the whole other worldliness quality that it has, all add up to something quite extraordinary. The rest of the film has never been a favourite of mine, but this scene is one of Hollywood's all time masterpieces the likes of which will never be made again.
AngloAmalgamated 2 years ago 5
those are love scenes. lol.
Rico8458 2 years ago
One of the best scenes I have ever seen. The music, the dance the set and everything put together is just perfect. Thank you for putting this up.
muslimapurple 2 years ago 3
Go mbeannaí Dia dhuit, Mr. Kelly
[guh many djeea ghitch]
(God Bless You, Mr. Kelly in Irish)
devjmasters 2 years ago
that man with the trumpet is the only guy who ever played that solo with soul. you can hear it. in the other versions, the guys are just playing the tune, theres no soul.
but this guy- Uan Rasey, someone said- he's got it, plain n' simple
HariDora 2 years ago 10
Goosebumps every time. Especially at 2:15
MissLinaLamont 2 years ago
oh my god, now i can breathe again.
mhss0001 2 years ago
This is smoking! They're both smooth as silk, so graceful. Awesome Post 5*
TruthorIllusion 2 years ago
She was 19 when it filmed.
vivianvisconti 2 years ago
Not only the great dancing, but the cinematography that captured the mood and color of the movie's setting here in the center of Paris on the famous Place de la Concorde made the city itself a stunning part of it all. And of course Leslie Caron, the French star of the Roland Petite Ballet Cie,, with her beauty, was able to captivate us and enhanced Gene Kelly's movements and appeal. Great, great film.
11777766 2 years ago 2
Yes, it is a beautiful piece of art. And a wonderful trumpet solo by Uan Rasey.
JazzMaster1955 2 years ago
Jesus - this is SO beautiful! First saw it as a kid with my parents and it still sends tingles down my spine. I couldn't wait to grow up and have one of those gorgeous things - alas I never did get a fountain!
zthetha 2 years ago 3