TV Guide: Oscar Levant

Listing: O. Henry's Full House

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:00:00 -0500

Wed Dec 9 08:00 AM FMC

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Trailer Addict — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:58:33 -0500

erry Mulligan (Gene Kelly) is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam (Oscar Levant) is a struggling concert pianist who is a long time associate of a French singer, Henri Baurel (Georges Gu tary). A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts (Nina Foch) takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in Jerry more than his art. Jerry remains oblivious to her feelings, and falls in love with Lise (Leslie Caron), a French girl he meets at a restaurant. Lise loves him as well, but she is already in a relationship with Henri, whom she feels indebted to for having saved her family during World War II. At a raucous masked ball, with everyone in black-and-white costumes, Milo learns that Jerry is not interested in her, Jerry learns that Lise is in love with him, but is marrying Henri the next day, and Henri overhears their conversation. When Henri drives Lise away, Jerry daydreams about being with her all over Paris, his reve

Video: American In Paris, An -- (Movie Clip) Adam's Fantasy

TCM — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:50:41 -0500

Probably the only time Oscar Levant (as "Adam") ever got five minutes alone on screen, in a fantasy of himself "performing" Gershwin's "Concerto in F," from An American In Paris, 1951.

Video: Rhapsody in Blue -- (Movie Clip) Oscar Levant

TCM — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:47:58 -0500

Oscar Levant carries this Hollywood version of his real-life first meeting with George Gershwin (played by Robert Alda) in director Irving Rapper's Warner Bros. bio-pic Rhapsody in Blue, 1945.

Video: Rhapsody in Blue -- (Movie Clip) American

TCM — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:47:58 -0500

Spirited discussion about George Gershwin (Robert Alda) features brother Ira (Herbert Rudley), girlfriend Julie (Joan Leslie), agent Dreyfus (Charles Coburn) Professor Frank (Albert Basserman) and real-life Gershwin pal Oscar Levant (as himself) in Rhapsody in Blue, 1945.

Video: An American in Paris - - (Movie Clip) A Simple Girl

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:56:59 -0500

Variations on Gershwin's "Embraceable You" support Henri (Georges Guetary) as he describes his girlfriend Lise (Leslie Caron) to Adam (Oscar Levant) in a fantasy musical sequence in An American In Paris 1951.