
An American in Paris
1951

S'Wonderful! S'Marvelous! ...She's The Fairest Lady of All!
A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.

A shy Greenwich Village book clerk is discovered by a fashion photographer and whisked off to Paris where she becomes a reluctant model.
Audrey HepburnJo Stockton
Fred AstaireDick Avery
Kay ThompsonMaggie Prescott
Michel AuclairProf. Emile Flostre
Robert FlemyngPaul Duval
DovimaMarion
Suzy ParkerSpecialty Dancer (Think Pink Number)
Sunny HartnettSpecialty Dancer (Think Pink Number)
Jean Del ValHairdresser
Virginia GibsonBabs
Sue EnglandLaura
Ruta LeeLettie
Alex GerryDovitch
Bess FlowersFashion Show Spectator
Iphigenie CastiglioniArmande
Harold MillerGuest at Aborted Fashion Show (uncredited)
Franklyn FarnumGuest at Duval's Fashion Show (uncredited)










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Despite the presence of Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire, I think this film actually belongs to Kay Thompson. She plays really well as the 1950s version of Dame Anna Wintour in this amiable, if a little thinly spread, musical comedy. Infuriated by the rather drab quality of her latest "Quality" magazine, she determines to revamp the whole thing. In pink! A bookshop being used for a photo shoot by "Avery" (Astaire) provides the unlikely source for her new model - "Jo" (Hepburn) who is to the fashion industry what Herod was to babies. "Avery" is clever, though, and he offers a trade off that sees her do a shoot in Paris in return for a meeting with "Prof. Flostre" (Michel Auclair). What now ensues is all fairly predictable, a love triangle with "Jo" in the middle vacillating. George & Ira Gerschwin provided the musical numbers, and though they are very well staged, the film lacks a killer song. That said, Thompson is on super form as the no-nonsense boss, the dance numbers are colourful and energetic and finally, Hepburn has a lovely vivacity and enthusiasm to her performance - she takes to the musical numbers very much like a duck to water. Astaire isn't at his best, and Robert Flemyng's accent isn't the best either - but at the end, the whole thing falls into place with an enjoyable certainty.

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