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AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
• Directed by Vincente Minnelli
• Produced by Arthur Freed
• Written by Alan Jay Lerner
• Music by George Gershwin, with lyrics by Ira Gershwin; and additional music by Saul Chaplin, the film’s musical director
Academy Awards for. . .
• Best Picture• Art Direction – Color• Cinematography – Color• Costume Design – Color• Music-Scoring of a Picture• Screenplay• Nominated, but did not win, for Best Director and Film Editing
Emmanuel Levy, in Vincente Minnelli:
Hollywood’s Dark Dreamer
• The ballet “represented Minnelli’s long-standing belief that words presented unnecessary barriers between the images and the emotions that they convey. . . .As a composer, Gershwin transcended the boundaries between Europe and America, theater and film, concert hall and music hall. A hybrid artist, Gershwin served as a role model for Minnelli. . . .For Minnelli, the ballet was an American renewal of the spirit that produced Gershwin’s music in the first place.”
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