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Gene Kelly dances a seventeen-minute Gershwin ballet through painted Paris.

Belle Epoque Paris and a courtesan-in-training, in Lerner and Loewe songs.

Romeo and Juliet as rival gangs on the Upper West Side, danced by Jerome Robbins.

Audrey Hepburn's flower girl and Rex Harrison's phonetician; the rain in Spain.

Gene Kelly in the rain, Donald O'Connor up the walls, and Hollywood's own switch to sound.

Two aristocrats play seduction as a game by letter, in the last decade before the guillotine.

Quasimodo, Esmeralda and the cathedral Hugo wrote the book to save.

A French girl and a Chinese man in colonial Saigon; Duras at 70 remembering.