A tedious musical about Parisian society around 1900. At the age of 27, Caron was a bit long in the tooth to be playing a teenager. Speaking of young women, Chevalier's appreciation of "leetle gails" is kind of creepy. At least Jordan is honest when he sings, "It's a Bore." Minnelli's Oscar seems to be a belated one for "An American in Paris." Here he does nothing to keep the film from dragging. The songs, in the ludicrous Lerner-Lowe style of half-talking and half-singing, are not particularly good. It's unbelievable that this film won the Best Picture Oscar for a year in which such masterpieces as "Vertigo" and "Touch of Evil" were released.
