''The Gay Parisian'' is an American

short film A short film is a film with a low running time. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of not more than 40 minutes including all credits". Other film o ...

produced in 1941 by Warner Bros. and directed by

Jean Negulesco Jean Negulesco (born Ioan Negulescu; – 18 July 1993) was a Romanian Americans, Romanian-American film director and screenwriter.Oliver, Myrna"Jean Negulesco 1900–1993 ''The Los Angeles Times'', 22 July 1993. He first gained notice for his Fi ...

. The film is a screen adaptation, in

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, of the 1938 ballet '' Gaîté Parisienne'', choreographed by

Léonide Massine Leonid Fyodorovich Myasin (), better known in the West by the French transliteration as Léonide Massine (15 March 1979), was a Russian choreographer and ballet dancer. Massine created the world's first symphonic ballet, ''Les Présages'', and ...

to music by

Jacques Offenbach Jacques Offenbach (; 20 June 18195 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario. He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera ''The Tales of Hoffmann''. He was a p ...

. It was nominated for an

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at the 14th Academy Awards for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel).

Plot

Cast

* Ballet Russe de Monte-Carlo as Dancers *

as The Peruvian (as Leonide Massine) * Milada Mladova as The Glove Seller * Frederic Franklin as The Baron * Nathalie Krassovska as The Flower Girl * Andre Eglevsky as Tortoni - The Dancing Master * Igor Youskevitch as Officer * Lubov Roudenko as Can-Can Dancer * Casimir Kokitch as Dancer * James Starbuck as Dancer

References

External links

* * 1941 films 1941 romance films 1941 short films American romance films American short films Films directed by Jean Negulesco 1940s English-language films 1940s American films English-language short films English-language romance films {{1940s-US-film-stub