an american in paris be a wonderful musical about an american painter live in paris for inspiration . he meet a rich woman who admire his painting on the street and she believe she can get his work to be even more popular to the public and e. g. in a museum . golden globe nominate gene kelly a the artist jerry mulligan be just perfect at both sing and especially dance . he also meet the main girl lise bouvier ( leslie caron ) who be engage to his best friend . he can not help his feeling for this girl and even after he find out who she be engage to . fill with nice romance and wonderful song and dance and this be a very good musical film . it may drag slightly with his dance dream sequence and i. e. the american in paris ballet and but there be a good happy end . it win the oscar for best art direction set decoration and best cinematography and best costume design and best music and scoring of a musical picture and best writing and story and screenplay and best picture and and it be nominate for best director for vincente minnelli and best film editing and it be nominate the bafta for best film from any source and and it win the golden globe for best motion picture musical or comedy and and it be nominate for best director for vincente millenni ( liza father ) . gene kelly be number 66 on the 100 movie star and and he be number 15 on 100 year and 100 star men and i get rhythm be number 32 on 100 year and 100 song and the film be number 9 on 100 year of musical and it be number 39 on 100 year and 100 passion and it be number 68 on 100 year and 100 movie and and it be number 58 on the 100 great musical . very good .