Directed by Vincente MinnelliStarring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant, Georges Guetary, Nina Foch, and The American In Paris Ballet
Here is a classic movie that I just don't get. I've never been a big fan of Gene Kelly. I've always thought that his ego was much bigger than his talent. Leslie Caron is another I've never seen the appeal of. I do enjoy the Gershwin score, as I feel he is one of the greatest composers of the Twentieth Century, but it just doesn't all come together for me. It does provide one of the great Oscar paradoxes for me. How could this win Best Picture, and then a year later, the similar, but much better, Singin' in the Rain doesn't even get a nomination, while utter garbage on film (The Greatest Show on Earth) takes the Oscar? That's one I will never figure out.
Other nominees: Decision Before Dawn (Anatole Litvak), A Place in the Sun (George Stevens), Quo Vadis (Mervyn LeRoy and Anthony Mann), and A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan)
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