Gene Kelly ... Jerry Mulligan
Leslie Caron ... Lise Bouvier
Oscar Levant ... Adam Cook
Georges Guétary ... Henri Baurel
and
Nina Foch ... Milo Roberts
An American in Paris(1951)
My mom told this story to me:
“People drew in the breath sharply, as from shock, when the announcement of the main Academy Award echoed through the theater. But then, all the critics recovered and erupted into applause.”
For me, it’s so strange because despite the genius of Gershwin songs particular a beautiful ballad getting along with a couple ballet on the Bank of the Seine, some reviewer called this film, “too fancy and overblown”.
Although getting bad reviews, An American in Paris remains one of the Hollywood’s greatest musicals compared with such the same movie type like “Singing in the Rain” as well as the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers films.
O.K.! I think it’s too fancy and overblown, but things are completely compensated by such a beautiful ballad on the Bank of the Seine. Yes, it’s”Our love is here to stay”. This is the last George Gershwin’s song which he would never finish. He’d died before but Oscar Levant and friends remembered the type and helped finish later. The beautiful melody got the beautiful lyrics from Ira Gershwin.
Our Love Is Here to Stay
Words & Music by George & Ira Gershwin
F Fm
It's very clear
Fdim G7 C C/B Am
Our love is here to stay
Am/G Dm7 G G+ E7 Bm7-5 E7
Not for a year, but ever and a day
F Dm7
The radio and the telephone
C C/B Am
And the movies that we know
F Dm7 G#7 G7
May just be passing fancies and in time may go
F Fm
But oh my dear
Fdim G7 C C/B Am7 Am7/G
Our love is here to stay
Dm7 G G+ E7 Bm7-5 E7
Together we're going a long long way
F G
In time the Rockies may crumble,
C Am
Gibraltar may tumble--
F Fm Fdim
They're only made of clay, but
C A7 G Fdim Dm7 G#7 G7
Our love is here to stay.
(instrumental interlude --first 2 lines of last verse)
F G
In time the Rockies may crumble,
C Am
Gibraltar may tumble--
F Fm Fdim
They're only made of clay, but
C A7 G Fdim C A7 G#7 G7
Our love is here to, our love is here to
Dm7 G Dm7 C Fdim C
Our love is here to stay.
