Dutch postcard by Takken / 't Sticht, no. 734. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Leslie Caron and Gene Kelly in An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli, 1951).
French film actress and dancer Leslie Caron (1931) was one of the most famous Hollywood stars in the 1950s. She is best known for the waif-like gamines in musical films like An American in Paris (1951), Lili (1953), and Gigi (1958). Since the 1960s she also worked in the European cinema.
Gene Kelly (1912-1996) was an American actor, dancer, singer, filmmaker, and choreographer. He was known for his energetic and athletic dancing style, his good looks, and the likeable characters that he played on screen. He starred in, choreographed, or co-directed some of the most well-regarded musical films of the 1940s and 1950s until they fell out of fashion in the late 1950s. Kelly is best known today for his performances in films such as Anchors Aweigh (1945), On the Town (1949), which was his directorial debut, An American in Paris (1951), Singin' in the Rain (1952), Brigadoon (1954), and It's Always Fair Weather (1955).
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