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26/09/1951 Music, Romance, Comedy 1h 53m
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What a joy! It's M-G-M's Technicolor musical!

Overview

Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.

  1. Vincente Minnelli

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Gene Kelly

    Jerry Mulligan

  2. Leslie Caron

    Lise Bouvier

  3. Oscar Levant

    Adam Cook

  4. Georges Guétary

    Henri Baurel

  5. Nina Foch

    Milo Roberts

  6. Robert Ames

    Ballet Dancer (uncredited)

  7. Joan Anderson

    Child in Ballet (uncredited)

  8. Larry Arnold

    Frenchman (uncredited)

  9. Martha Bamattre

    Mathilde Mattieu (uncredited)

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2026-07-06
Now that the war has been won, "Jerry" (Gene Kelly) has decided to stay on in Paris and try to make a living as a painter. He's not having much more luck doing that than his best pal "Adam" (the often quite scene-stealing Oscar Levant) is at writing his grand opus, but there might be a glimmer on the horizon. The wealthy "Milo" (Nina Foch) meets him, buys a few of his artworks and definitely takes a bit of a shine to him. She even sets him up in his own studio. He, though, isn't as enamoured of her as he is of the young "Lise" (Leslie Caron) whom he meets one evening and then pursues next day ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$5,635,000.00

Revenue
$6,981,000.00

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