An American in Paris
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Nov 3, 2026
Michelle Devorah KahnHOST
And I don't mean that, obviously, you know...
Michelle Devorah KahnHOST
As time goes by, Casablanca, like you have these top tier, you know, tunes and, you know, the whole soundtrack to An American in Paris or, you know, On the Town or something like that.
Michelle Devorah KahnHOST
But when it just comes to all that, you know, fun instrumental background music, the 80s, I just think that's the, I don't want to say it's the one thing they did right, but it's the one thing they did right for an era I'm not that interested in.
Chad RobinsonHOST
It's the best walking music.
Blake TourvilleHOST
Oh, wait, no, I've seen The Bandwagon.
Luke SeayHOST
You've seen An American in Paris, too.
Blake TourvilleHOST
And An American in Paris.
Dany JoshuvaHOST
But, yeah.
Dany JoshuvaHOST
Okay, so next week, a fun episode planned.
Jeff ShapiroNARRATOR
This mantel card is more than a collectible.
Jeff ShapiroNARRATOR
It's become a stand-in for the glory years of mid-century baseball and a metonym for mid-century U.S. optimism, as much as Gene Kelly's exuberant dancing in 1951's An American in Paris.
Jeff ShapiroNARRATOR
More than a thousand of these cards may exist today in varying conditions.
Jeff ShapiroNARRATOR
One well-preserved specimen lives in the Ronald S. Korda collection of sports and trading cards, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.
ScottGUEST
Yeah, I think On the
HalHOST
Town, out of those, I think you may have seen Kiss Me Kate, but I think On the Town is one of the real special Gene Kelly films that isn't probably talked about enough as much as An American in Paris.
HalHOST
Or Singing in the Rain.
HalHOST
Or Singing in the Rain, of course, yeah.
SooshHOST
Middle Age or, you know, Exit Our Twenties.
SooshHOST
Whatever it is, right? People can relate to these stories a lot more than, you know, something like Ben-Hur or The Ten Commandments or An American in Paris.
SooshHOST
Like, I can't relate to those films.
SooshHOST
They're impressive.
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SooshHOST
He could be that good-hearted, kind-hearted guy like Marty.
SooshHOST
So hats off to them for making that decision because that's taking a guy with notoriety and putting him in a role that he's not necessarily known for.
QuintonHOST
so every decade we try to determine the best winner for that said decade uh we're currently working over the halfway mark for the 1950s here and we're trying to figure out where marty stands collaboratively between the two of us on the list currently our list is at number one all about eve at number two on the waterfront at three from here to eternity At four, An American in Paris.
QuintonHOST
At five, All the King's Men.
Gregory RosebrughHOST
All on a soundstage, sometimes deconstructed.
Bil AntoniouHOST
Yes, and it's sort of an Eastern European answer to The Red Shoes, from which it takes very much a lot of its plot, but also An American in Paris.
Bil AntoniouHOST
I feel even West Side Story is an influence.
Bil AntoniouHOST
Basically...
Alex ShawHOST
It's also really funny and it was directed by John Landis, who is largely known as a comedy director, causing many early audiences who didn't expect the scares to reject it.
Alex ShawHOST
The name deliberately evokes both Werewolf of London from 1935 and An American in Paris from 1951.
Alex ShawHOST
The first being a seminal early horror movie, the second being a romantic comedy starring Gene Kelly.
Alex ShawHOST
Landis wrote the thing back in 1969 when he was about the age of its two doomed American college boy visitors to England, David and Jack.
Micheline MaynardPANELIST
And I was just thinking- Well, that too.
Micheline MaynardPANELIST
So if you think about An American in Paris and The Bandwagon and Singing in the Rain, you know, they're all what now we would sort of call jukebox musicals.
Micheline MaynardPANELIST
Or
Philip MozolakPANELIST
popsicles,
Dan GibbonsHOST
A Rotten Tomatoes ranking of this is purest heresy.
Dan GibbonsHOST
They have it at number 31 over the King's Speech, but two under An American in Paris, which simply will not do.
Erin WeirHOST
Absolutely not.
Erin WeirHOST
An American in Paris is also prejudiced, but not in a way where we're supposed to be like, hey, this person's wrong.
Erin WeirHOST
Yeah.
Dan GibbonsHOST
Would have been better if one of the Americans in Paris had been a werewolf.
MikeyHOST
This mantle card is more than a collectible.
MikeyHOST
It's become a stand-in for the glory years of mid-century baseball and a metronym for the mid-century U.S. optimism as much as Gene Kelly's exuberant dancing in the 1951 musical An American in Paris.
MikeyHOST
More than 1,000 of these cards may exist today.
MikeyHOST
in varying conditions.
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