An American in Paris

a film by Vincente Minnelli
music by George Gershwin

Another 1951 classic, starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant — man, this guy really could play piano! —, Nina Foch and Georges Guétary. And, of course, Gershwin’s music. Who could ask for anything more? Personally, I could do with a little less tap dance.

Check this out:

According to Leslie Caron in a 2009 interview on Paul O’Grady’s interview show the film ran into controversy with the Hays Office over part of her dance sequence with a chair; the censor viewing the scene called it “sexually provocative”, which surprised Caron, who answered “What can you do with a chair?”