As American as it gets

I've enjoyed Gershwin's music since I was a kid. No kidding...

This is a classic from the movie Rhapsody in Blue.

 Robert Alda ( Hawkeye/Allan Alda's father) was a terrible actor and the movie was 

grossly over-melodramatic, BUT it was a Warner Brother's production filmed in 1945. 

Also in the movie were major -babes-of-the-time Alexis Smith and Joan Leslie.

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Alda and Oscar Levant

Levant actually played himself in the movie - how does anyone actually do that?

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Joan Leslie dancing with Fred Astaire (not in this movie dummy)

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Alexis Smith - a classic war-time beauty if ever there was one.

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This is the Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra performing Gershwin's other masterpiece

An American in Paris

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Gene Kelly wrote, directed, choreographed and starred in the single greatest musical movie 

ever made -   AN AMERICAN IN PARIS.

Here's the opening sequence from the movie:

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