An American In Paris (DVD) Warner Brothers Ltd

Gene Kelly, producer Arthur Freed, director Vincente Minnelli and an ace creative team conjure sheer screen magic, one of the American Film Institute’s Top-100 American Films. Kelly plays an ex-GI who loves Paris and loves even more an alluring (but engaged) perfume-shop clerk (Leslie Caron in her beguiling screen debut). Dance sequences spun around Gershwin songs accent Kelly’s romantic pursuit. And the final 17-minute ballet – combining the title symphony, Impressionist set stylings and Kelly’s unique talent for a telling a story in dance – lifts this winner of six Academy Awards including Best Picture into the ether of timelessness.