Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron play the star-crossed lovers in this archetypal glamorous MGM musical that was the deserved winner of six Oscars, including best picture, collected by genius producer Arthur Freed, with a special Oscar presented to Kelly for advancing the art of choreography on screen. It still looks pretty good today, with marvellous Technicolored design, athletic dancing from Kelly and a superb Gershwin score, but some sequences have dated. The climactic 17-minute ballet on the theme of the French Impressionists is a little precious and over-staged by today's standards. But much of the movie remains delightful: Kelly and the children performing I Got Rhythm; a wonderful debut from Caron; and Georges Guetary's I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise. If you've never seen it, don't miss, but better fare was to come with Singin' in the Rain and The Band Wagon.

Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.