The dancing flower seller is my great-grandmother Mary Young, originally a stage actress,with a career on Broadway in plays such as Believe Me Xantippe with John Barrymore. In later years she appeared on television and in films, including The Lost Weekend, Around the World in Eighty Days, Watch on the Rhine, Address Unknown, and Gone With the Wind. She always said that Gene Kelly told her she was very light on her feet.
+Mme Simon (Cyn) Yes, thank you for telling us. What a treat to be able to come here and see her whenever you want to. This entire number is absolutely delightful.
I came here just to ask if somebody knew the name of that charming lady! Thank you, and congratulations. She had the joy of life, and is an example for all of us. Amazing elasticity, graceful and what a nice smile!
What I love about "By Strauss" is that it's a pure character-defining musical number. It gives Kelly, Guetary, and yes, Levant a chance to be goofy and charming at the same time. A wonderful fusion of Guetary's vocal, Levant's piano, and Kelly's dancing with the locals: the cafe owners and of course, the lovely flower lady. Truly clever waltz number- even revealing a little bit of "Vienna Woods" in its chorus. Danke, danke indeed!!
I'm absolutely marvelled. Guetary and that incomparable vibrato, Kelly and Levant wonderful as always. Why did I wait so long to watch this masterpiece?
I love this song! One of my favorite parts (in the whole movie) is when Gene dances with the older woman here. She's so delicate and graceful and I just think she was probably so excited to have this little bit part where she got to dance with Gene! Just lovely.
The gentle dancing with the dear elderly lady & song finale with Gene Kelly between the ladies moves me to tears every time I see this film. Sure it's Hollywood, but the scene rings true nonetheless.
As if this number isn't utterly charming and lovely in its own right, there's that fantastic technical moment when the old lady knocks Gene's cap off his head and he catches it, tosses it out of the way without the slightest flicker of an eye. Now THAT'S professionalism!
Also, I heart the boys having fun together, especially darling darling Oscar. I wish there was a good version of Tra-La-La on UA-cam ... or that fabulous bit when Gene and George are swooning at the table and Oscar's doing that hilarious bit with the brandy and the coffee and the cigarette cos he's the only who knows they're in love with the same girl. God, he's divine.
On the Facebook Page "Gene Kelly The Legacy", his wife talks about this number. Here is what she says: "Gene was never crazy about the “By Strauss” number in An American in Paris. When he and I watched it together, he said, “It was a corny number. I never liked it that much, but it fitted there and worked people in. It established that old lady, who I later used as my entree into the kids’ number and ‘I Got Rhythm.’” The idea of “planting the thought of a musical number way ahead before it comes in” was critical to Gene and an important element that distinguishes his work from many of his predecessors. As he said, “If you can plant the idea of a number way ahead, then it will help you ease into this terrible thing of going from the scene right into the song and dance.” I find that audiences love the moment depicted in this photo. The charming “old lady” is a woman named Mary Young. She was born in NYC in 1879 and died in La Jolla in 1971. She appeared in three movies that won Best Picture Oscars: The Lost Weekend (1945), An American in Paris (1951) and Around the World in 80 Days (1956) and in two Best Picture Nominees: Foreign Correspondent (1940) and Watch on the Rhine (1943).
It took you five posts (each one more asinine than the last) to get all that out your system?! "The French guy`s (actually he was by birth Greek and his formative years were spent in Egypt) a poof". No kidding! "Guetary:about as flamboyant a gay man as you will ever see.." Again, no kidding! Which authoritative biographical source did you glean that little gem from? Guetary (official name change when he became a French citizen in 1950) was married to Janine Guyon from 1955 to her death in 1997. They had two children. There has never been any suggestion made that he was gay, other than in your imbecilic homophobic pronouncement, into which you even manage to weave a question mark over Oscar Levant`s sexuality. Five years on, I would have no doubt that you`re as much of a tiny minded idiot in 2018...
The elderly woman dancing with Gene Kelly must have been very beautiful in her heyday. I realize she has great class in this clip. I wonder if her name was in the opening credits.
The flower seller (the smaller woman in the red sweater) is my great-grandmother, Mary Young. She had a long career in theater on and off Broadway, and moved to Hollywood as an older woman to act in films. She always told me that Gene Kelly told her she was light on her feet.
oh, that's wild...I was JUST thinking...who is the AMAZING woman in the red sweater. (I've wondered for years since watching the movie as a child.) She is indeed light on her feet. Thank you for the info! Cool that it's your great-grandmother!
Original lyrics to the verse: Away with the music of Broadway! Be off with your Irving Berlin! I'd give no quarter to Kern or Cole Porter and Gershwin keeps pounding on tin! Probably, the heirs of the named composers had something against it! Haha!
Can someone please tell me what they mean at 1:43 to 1:48 when they say "dog, pig my card" It's really funny but I don't know what they are referring to..
Don't be silly! "Touch" means to ask someone for a loan! It DOES NOT mean physically touching a person! *sigh* Consider the time period! Do you REALLY think they would make a sexual remark?! It certainly is nothing like today.
Didn’t Coco Chanel make her bed with the Nazis in Paris? She even tried to sue the Jew who owned the rights to Chanel no. 5, but he had sneakily signed the rights over to a Christian friend of his before he fled. After the war he settled with Coco in court, but kept it out of the news because it would have been bad publicity for the brand. Chanel dodged repercussions for being a nazi sympathizer because she was old friends with Winston Churchill, apparently. So, maybe cultured people could still enjoy a good waltz and make some German jokes, good show Jerry!
I've figured out a method to tell if someone is gay or not. Turn the sound off and just watch the visuals carefully. No, seriously try this, it's fun and it's like a totally different video. Kelly is like a very sweet 8-year-old boy, very childlike, but does not seem gay. Guetary: about as flamboyant a gay man as you will ever see. Levant is camping it up, but it's like watching a gangster camp it up. Who knows? He was too complex to be assigned a mere sexual orientation!
The dancing flower seller is my great-grandmother Mary Young, originally a stage actress,with a career on Broadway in plays such as Believe Me Xantippe with John Barrymore. In later years she appeared on television and in films, including The Lost Weekend, Around the World in Eighty Days, Watch on the Rhine, Address Unknown, and Gone With the Wind. She always said that Gene Kelly told her she was very light on her feet.
Thank you for telling us. I've always thought that bit was so charming.
+Mme Simon (Cyn) Yes, thank you for telling us. What a treat to be able to come here and see her whenever you want to. This entire number is absolutely delightful.
She is very light on her feet, indeed! She looks like a porcelain doll. Thank you for sharing this.
How awesome! Talent!!
I came here just to ask if somebody knew the name of that charming lady! Thank you, and congratulations. She had the joy of life, and is an example for all of us. Amazing elasticity, graceful and what a nice smile!
When he dances with the old lady my heart melts. Such a gentleman
The arrangements to these tunes are absolutely outstanding. I don’t know why we can’t bring orchestral arrangements like these back to modern films.
What I love about "By Strauss" is that it's a pure character-defining musical number. It gives Kelly, Guetary, and yes, Levant a chance to be goofy and charming at the same time. A wonderful fusion of Guetary's vocal, Levant's piano, and Kelly's dancing with the locals: the cafe owners and of course, the lovely flower lady. Truly clever waltz number- even revealing a little bit of "Vienna Woods" in its chorus. Danke, danke indeed!!
I'm absolutely marvelled. Guetary and that incomparable vibrato, Kelly and Levant wonderful as always. Why did I wait so long to watch this masterpiece?
I have to admit Guetary made the film for me. ❤️❤️❤️his voice
I love this song! One of my favorite parts (in the whole movie) is when Gene dances with the older woman here. She's so delicate and graceful and I just think she was probably so excited to have this little bit part where she got to dance with Gene! Just lovely.
The gentle dancing with the dear elderly lady & song finale with Gene Kelly between the ladies moves me to tears every time I see this film. Sure it's Hollywood, but the scene rings true nonetheless.
As if this number isn't utterly charming and lovely in its own right, there's that fantastic technical moment when the old lady knocks Gene's cap off his head and he catches it, tosses it out of the way without the slightest flicker of an eye. Now THAT'S professionalism!
Also, I heart the boys having fun together, especially darling darling Oscar. I wish there was a good version of Tra-La-La on UA-cam ... or that fabulous bit when Gene and George are swooning at the table and Oscar's doing that hilarious bit with the brandy and the coffee and the cigarette cos he's the only who knows they're in love with the same girl. God, he's divine.
I have to say Guetary made this movie for me. I ❤️❤️❤️his voice.
This will never get old...❤
I've ALWAYS adored this song..so witty and clever!
Fascinating Rhythm
This is my favourite song from the film. Every few year I rediscover it and it makes me feel warm and happy. :')
I wish someone would make a flashmob of this
Yaaaaasssss
On the Facebook Page "Gene Kelly The Legacy", his wife talks about this number. Here is what she says: "Gene was never crazy about the “By Strauss” number in An American in Paris. When he and I watched it together, he said, “It was a corny number. I never liked it that much, but it fitted there and worked people in. It established that old lady, who I later used as my entree into the kids’ number and ‘I Got Rhythm.’” The idea of “planting the thought of a musical number way ahead before it comes in” was critical to Gene and an important element that distinguishes his work from many of his predecessors. As he said, “If you can plant the idea of a number way ahead, then it will help you ease into this terrible thing of going from the scene right into the song and dance.” I find that audiences love the moment depicted in this photo. The charming “old lady” is a woman named Mary Young. She was born in NYC in 1879 and died in La Jolla in 1971. She appeared in three movies that won Best Picture Oscars: The Lost Weekend (1945), An American in Paris (1951) and Around the World in 80 Days (1956) and in two Best Picture Nominees: Foreign Correspondent (1940) and Watch on the Rhine (1943).
I just read this on her page, that’s why I searched for that scene here.
Thank you for sharing this.
This movie makes me want to go to Paris. I'm a young artist myself and I love to travel, but money is very tight these days.
Paris is one of many cities I want to go to in my lifetime
Beautiful and unforgetable
三人の魅力が活きる素晴らしい楽曲。大好きな一曲。
i LOVE this scene! Thanks for posting. I could watch this over and over~
Lovely, pure art!
Delightful. And as usual Gene is fantastic.
This movie deserved many Oscar's.
I love Georges Guetary and I'm so glad he got this job. The fact that Maurice Chevalier almost got this part makes me nauseous.
I love, at around the @4:35 mark, Gene Kelly has his hat accidentally knocked off his head but finishes the scene like a true pro.
@@temps45 never noticed that!!!
gotta love Henri playing an invisible violin!
I didn't remember this song from the movie but seeing a clip of Nice Work If You Can Get It gave me a memory refresher.
Everybody loves Oscar.
It took you five posts (each one more asinine than the last) to get all that out your system?! "The French guy`s (actually he was by birth Greek and his formative years were spent in Egypt) a poof". No kidding! "Guetary:about as flamboyant a gay man as you will ever see.." Again, no kidding! Which authoritative biographical source did you glean that little gem from? Guetary (official name change when he became a French citizen in 1950) was married to Janine Guyon from 1955 to her death in 1997. They had two children. There has never been any suggestion made that he was gay, other than in your imbecilic homophobic pronouncement, into which you even manage to weave a question mark over Oscar Levant`s sexuality. Five years on, I would have no doubt that you`re as much of a tiny minded idiot in 2018...
Like a lot of favorite French balladeers, Guétary was an import (he was a Greek named Lambros Vorloou).
Marvel of marvels… by Gershwin.
The elderly woman dancing with Gene Kelly must have been very beautiful in her heyday. I realize she has great class in this clip. I wonder if her name was in the opening credits.
1:33 how did he do that?! wow
Do what?
They way he sang Viennese, it’s awesome
thanks for putting the lyrics in!
I'm german and didn't understand a word they were singing XD
+TheCatMurgatroyd yeah, the English is kind of old and weird xD
Lukas Hofstätter no, that's not it... They just said it weird..
TheCatMurgatroyd yeah ik but I mean some of the phrases they use are outdated... like i've never heard them before
Lukas Hofstätter
Yeah I guess, but I do watch a ton of old movies, so I'm used to that ^^
Außerdem... Kann es sein das du deutscher bist? xD
Five words: They got the mustard out!!
Καταπληκτικοι❤
This would be nothing without Oscar.
Does anyone know the names of the two ladies that dance in this great scene from the film..
The flower seller (the smaller woman in the red sweater) is my great-grandmother, Mary Young. She had a long career in theater on and off Broadway, and moved to Hollywood as an older woman to act in films. She always told me that Gene Kelly told her she was light on her feet.
+Cynthia Craig thanks for the información. Ifind it strange that they mock german culture less than 10 years after the 1940 occupation
Johann Strauss II, was an AUSTRIAN composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas........
oh, that's wild...I was JUST thinking...who is the AMAZING woman in the red sweater. (I've wondered for years since watching the movie as a child.) She is indeed light on her feet. Thank you for the info! Cool that it's your great-grandmother!
Im from Austria:-)
+Lisa-Marie Rohrer me too :D
VIVA AUSTRIA !
Original lyrics to the verse: Away with the music of Broadway! Be off with your Irving Berlin! I'd give no quarter to Kern or Cole Porter and Gershwin keeps pounding on tin! Probably, the heirs of the named composers had something against it! Haha!
Go on UA-cam and listen to Ella Fitzgerald singing By Strauss. Real Class. 😉
Robert Edwards I really agree with you! 👍
Couldn't agree with you more, ellas version is the tops.
I love her singing!!!
Can someone please tell me what they mean at 1:43 to 1:48 when they say "dog, pig my card" It's really funny but I don't know what they are referring to..
+Tharan Pillay Reffering to duel...
Don't be silly! "Touch" means to ask someone for a loan! It DOES NOT mean physically touching a person! *sigh* Consider the time period! Do you REALLY think they would make a sexual remark?! It certainly is nothing like today.
A few years after ww2 and these guys are singing loudly in the street proclaiming their preference for a German musician?
Worse! Strauss is Austrian! Just like... well, who cares!
Didn’t Coco Chanel make her bed with the Nazis in Paris? She even tried to sue the Jew who owned the rights to Chanel no. 5, but he had sneakily signed the rights over to a Christian friend of his before he fled. After the war he settled with Coco in court, but kept it out of the news because it would have been bad publicity for the brand. Chanel dodged repercussions for being a nazi sympathizer because she was old friends with Winston Churchill, apparently. So, maybe cultured people could still enjoy a good waltz and make some German jokes, good show Jerry!
gene looks like a kid in the................. candystore.
Strauss.? ?!!!!!!!
I've figured out a method to tell if someone is gay or not. Turn the sound off and just watch the visuals carefully. No, seriously try this, it's fun and it's like a totally different video. Kelly is like a very sweet 8-year-old boy, very childlike, but does not seem gay. Guetary: about as flamboyant a gay man as you will ever see. Levant is camping it up, but it's like watching a gangster camp it up. Who knows? He was too complex to be assigned a mere sexual orientation!
Is .22 for real??
"I never touch a guy unless I've known him for at least 15 minutes."
And they say LEVANT was gay.
they have one brain cell between the three of them and they share it
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