Oscar Levant
(as Adam Cook)
Gene Kelly
(as Jerry Mulligan)
[first lines]
Jerry Mulligan: This is Paris, and I'm an American who lives here. My name is Jerry Mulligan, and I'm an ex G.I. In 1945 when the army told me to find my own job, I stayed on. And I'll tell you why: I'm a painter, and all my life that's all I've ever wanted to do.
Jerry Mulligan: This is Paris, and I'm an American who lives here. My name is Jerry Mulligan, and I'm an ex G.I. In 1945 when the army told me to find my own job, I stayed on. And I'll tell you why: I'm a painter, and all my life that's all I've ever wanted to do.
Nina Foch
(as Milo Roberts)
Jerry Mulligan:
That's... quite a dress you almost have on.
Milo Roberts: Thanks.
Jerry Mulligan: What holds it up?
Milo Roberts: Modesty.
Milo Roberts: Thanks.
Jerry Mulligan: What holds it up?
Milo Roberts: Modesty.
Gene Kelly
(as Jerry Mulligan)
Jerry Mulligan:
Well, uh, with a binding like you've got, people are going to want to know what's in the book.
Leslie Caron
(as Lise Bouvier)
Leslie Caron
(as Lise Bouvier)
Oscar Levant
(as Adam Cook)
Adam Cook:
I'm a concert pianist. That's a pretentious way of saying I'm... unemployed at the moment.
Gene Kelly
(as Jerry Mulligan)
Jerry Mulligan:
Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing over here but it sounds better in French.
Gene Kelly
(as Jerry Mulligan)
Jerry Mulligan: Back home everyone said I didn't have any talent. They might be saying the same thing over here but it sounds better in French.