The read
Critics rate it 12 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 90% of the 79 1950s music movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes95%
Metacritic83/100
Critics rate it 12 points higher than audiences do.
671 audience votes
Key crew
- Alan Jay LernerScreenplay
- Vincente MinnelliDirector
- George GershwinOriginal Music Composer
- Conrad SalingerOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Gene KellyJerry Mulligan
- Leslie CaronLise Bouvier
- Oscar LevantAdam Cook
- Georges GuétaryHenri Baurel
- Nina FochMilo Roberts
- Robert AmesBallet Dancer (uncredited)
- Joan AndersonChild in Ballet (uncredited)
- Larry ArnoldFrenchman (uncredited)
- Martha BamattreMathilde Mattieu (uncredited)
- Charles BastinSmiling Young Man (uncredited)
- Joan BayleyBallet Dancer (uncredited)
- Rodney BieberBallet Dancer (uncredited)
Stills
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Themes
new year's eveparis, francemusicalpainterparfumsinging