" Nineteen year-old Leslie Caron made her film debut as the young Parisian mademoiselle.It was one of only a few Best Picture winners with no acting nominations.An American in Pariswas only the third musical o win Best Picture.The two previous winners were:The Broadway Melody (1929)andThe Great Ziegfeld (1936).The film was also the first to win a Golden Globe award for Best Motion Picture (comedy or musical) - a newly-created category - in the 1952 awards ceremony.As the camera pulled away, it revealed a young girl (Kristen Clayton) [later introduced as the teenaged character of Alice Johnson] in a white dress.The victim had been following the crime boss and his henchman before he was discovered and murdered.Two Disguised Brooklyn Cops In the Midst of a Drug Bust:In Brooklyn, New York during the Christmas holiday season, two NYPD cops are disguised outside the seedy Oasis Bar & Grill in the course of their work - a drug stakeout:Detective Jimmy ""Popeye"" Doyle (Gene Hackman) - a passionate, tough, pushy, unorthodox, bigoted and racist NYPD cop, disguised as a Santa ClausDetective Buddy "Cloudy" Salvatore Russo (Roy Scheider) posing as a hot dog vendor in a black and white checkered coatAtwo-bit black dope-drug Pusher named Willy (Alan Weeks) is confronted and accosted, who reacts by slashing Russo""s arm with one swipe of his concealed knife.He presents his first lesson to the boy: "Don""t ever trust anybody until you know ""em" - advice that will be remembered during he final conflict between them:Dunson: Don""t ever trust anybody until you know ""em...They say that old Fats just shoots the eyes right off them balls." Fats, the best hustler in the land, makes a side comment to one of his pals, Big John (Michael Constantine): "Big John? Do you think this boy is a hustler?" And then he offers o accept the poolshark""s challenge - at a higher wager of $200 per game:Fats: Do you like to gamble, Eddie? Gamble money on pool games?Eddie: Fats, let""s you and I shoot a game of straight pool.