An American in Paris: Quick Facts

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Oscar Levant sits at a piano while Gene Kelly dances beside him in a room with an open window, in a scene from An American in Paris (1951).

Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron rehearse a dance pose in a studio, with Caron en pointe and extended, and Kelly supporting her, during filming of An American in Paris.

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