Our screening on Friday 23 September will be introduced by Miles Eady. A musicals super-fan, Miles researches and writes about theatre, film and dance history. He was a consultant curator on the BFI Musicals season and is the curator of the Unseen on Screen at the BFI, bringing unproduced film scripts. He is about to be the co-presenter of the podcast Can't Stop the Musicals.
Jerry Mulligan (Gene Kelly) is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam (Oscar Levant) is a struggling concert pianist who’s a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel (Georges Guétary). A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts (Nina Foch), takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.
Cast:
Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron, Oscar Levant