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Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology distills three centuries of vigorous, glittering, and powerfully emotional writing about the place that Henry James called "the most brilliant city in the world." Here, a list of films to complement the book. Click IMDB to view the Internet Movie Database's page for a film. Where available, click Trailer to link to the trailer for a movie.
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Panorama of Eiffel Tower (Thomas Edison, 1900)
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Sophisticated screwball comedy featuring Claudette Colbert and John Barrymore, with a great Billy Wilder script.
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It's only a flashback, but the whole movie depends on it: "We'll always have Paris."
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Gene Kelly meets Gershwin in Vincente Minnelli's stylish musical classic.
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Memorable moment: Astaire, Audrey Hepburn, and Eloise creator Kay Thompson singing and dancing at the top of the Eiffel Tower.
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In Godard's first, Jean Seberg is the seemingly naive American who gives Jean-Paul Belmondo more than he bargained for.
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Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier as jazz musicians on the Left Bank, with Duke Ellington score as a bonus.
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Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in a lighthearted pastiche of Hitchcock set in Paris at its most luxurious.
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Brando alternately adrift and amok in Bertolucci's once-shocking saga.
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Drama of the French revolution notably features Harvey Keitel as Thomas Paine.
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Jazz great Dexter Gordon as a troubled musician in exile.
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