Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.

Gene Kelly
as Jerry Mulligan

Leslie Caron
as Lise Bouvier

Oscar Levant
as Adam Cook

Georges Guétary
as Henri Baurel

Nina Foch
as Milo Roberts

Robert Ames
as Ballet Dancer (uncredited)

Joan Anderson
as Child in Ballet (uncredited)

Larry Arnold
as Frenchman (uncredited)

Martha Bamattre
as Mathilde Mattieu (uncredited)

Charles Bastin
as Smiling Young Man (uncredited)
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Now that the war has been won, "Jerry" (Gene Kelly) has decided to stay on in Paris and try to make a living as a painter. He's not having much more luck doing that than his best pal "Adam" (the often quite scene-stealing Oscar Levant) is at writing his grand opus, but there might be a glimmer on th...