Paris in the Springtime Film Series: An American in Paris
Vincente Minelli’s 1951 musical stars Gene Kelly as a veteran expat who falls in love with a French girl (Leslie Caron) who is promised to another. Inspired by George Gershwin’s 1928 tone poem, the entire score is Gershwin music. Winner of six Academy Awards and a Golden Globe for Best Picture, it was added to the National Film Registry in 1993.
This series is made possible through Brooklyn Public Library’s Fund for the Humanities, established through the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Additional funding was provided by The Hearst Foundation, Inc.; the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation; The Starr Foundation; the Leon and Muriel Gilbert Charitable Trust; the Henry and Lucy Moses Fund, Inc., and a gift in memory of Samuel and Pauline Wine.
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