an american in paris

     

An American in Paris is a symphonic composition by American composer George Gershwin, compose in 1928. Inspired by time Gershwin had spent in Paris, it is in the form of an extended tone poem evoking the sights and energy of the French capital in the 1920s. It is one of Gershwin's best-known compositions.

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  • Following "Gone with the Wind", it would be another 12 years before a color film won again: this foreign-set musical
  • The screenplay for this Gene Kelly - Leslie Caron musical was written by Alan Jay Lerner
  • 1951:"One Yank on the Left Bank"
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  • Gene Kelly is an expatriate singing & dancing painter in this Oscar winner
  • Originally, this 1928 Gershwin orchestral composition included real French taxi horns
  • Alan Jay Lerner won the Oscar for Best Screenplay for this 1951 musical about an expatriate

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