Gene Kelly, producer Arthur Freed, director Vincente Minnelli, and a skilled production team conjure an entertainment for the ages.  Kelly plays an ex-GI who loves Paris and an alluring (but engaged) perfume-shop clerk (Leslie Caron in her beguiling screen debut). Dazzling dance sequences are spun around songs by the Gershwins.  And the closing ballet – combining the George Gershwin title piece, Impressionist set stylings and Kelly’s inimitable talent for telling a story in dance – lifts this winner of six Academy Awards® including Best Picture (plus an honorary Oscar® to Kelly), into the ether of timelessness.