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An American In Paris August 25, 2007

Posted by Jeff in 1946 through 1960, Art, Dance, George Gershwin, Movies.
Tags: An American In Paris, Arthur Freed, Gene Kelly, George Gershwin, Georges Guétary, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri Rousseau, Irene Sharaff, John Alton, Leslie Caron, Maurice Utrillo, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, MGM, Pierre-August Renoir, Preston Ames, Raoul Dufy, Roger Edens, Vincente Minnelli
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Left: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

For the sequence in my screenplay Tabula Rasa in which Lucy escapes from her father to a movie theater, I originally intended for her to see Lust For Life, the Van Gogh biography starring Kirk Douglas and directed by Vincente Minnelli. But when I went to the video rental store, they didn’t have Lust For Life, and they did have this by the same director. A better choice for Lucy’s palette, as it turned out …

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