An American in Paris
DVD - 2008
An American expatriate painter living in Paris falls in love with an engaged French woman.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Musical films
Feature films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Romance films - Published
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Burbank, CA :
Warner Home Video
[2008]
- Language
- English
French
Japanese
Thai - Other Authors
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- Edition
- Two-disc special edition; full screen
- Item Description
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1951.
Special features: disc 1 (20 min.): optional audio commentary hosted by Patricia Ward Kelly, with Arthur Freed, Gene Kelly, Vincente Minnelli, Alan Jay Lerner, Saul Chaplin, Leslie Caron, Nina Foch, Michael Feinstein, Johnny Green, Preston Ames & Irene Sharaff; "Paris on parade" FitzPatrick TravelTalk short (c1938, 9 min.); "Symphony in slang" cartoon (c1951, 7 min.); theatrical trailer (4 min.). disc 2 (161 min.): "Gene Kelly : anatomy of a dancer" episode of the television program American Masters (c2002, 87 min.); "''S wonderful : creating 'An American in Paris'" documentary (c2008, 42 min.); "Love walked in" outtake song sequence (3 min.); 14 audio outtakes (15 min. total); 3 radio interviews with Johnny Green, Gene Kelly & Leslie Caron (14 min. total). - Physical Description
- 2 videodiscs (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- DVD, region 1, dual-layer; Dolby digital mono.
- Audience
- Not rated by the MPAA.
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Picture.
- Production Credits
- Director of photography, Alfred Gilks ; film editor, Adrienne Fazan ; music by George Gershwin ; lyrics by Ira Gershwin ; musical direction, Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin ; orchestrations, Conrad Salinger ; choreography by Gene Kelly ; ballet photographed by John Alton.
- Disc 1. Feature film
- Disc 2. Special features.