Its screenplay was based on Frank Nugent""s adaptation of Maurice Walsh""sSaturday Evening Post1933 short storyGreen Rushes.And Mary Kate Danaher dippin"" her fingers in as neat as you please.Sean: What did you say her name was?Michaeleen: Mary Kate Danaher.Now don""t be gettin"" any notions in your head...Forget it, Sean, forget it.Put it out of your mind entirely.Sean: Why, what""s the matter? She isn""t married or anything, is she?Michaeleen:...No...and her with her freckles and her temper.Oh that red head of hers is no lie.Still, a man might put up with that, but not with her lack of a fortune."The wealthiest woman in Innisfree was the Widow Tillane.She had neither chick nor child poor soul, but she was well-respected and good to the poor." Escorted by Michaeleen to the widow, Sean negotiates to purchase his mother""s cottage to recapture his own childhood - his own birthplace: "All he Thorntons were born there.Caesar rode on horseback to lead the charge, as the other two groups of animals attacked from above and below.It may not be your theater, but it""s theater for somebody, somewhere...It""s just that there""s so much bourgeois in this ivory greenroom they call the theater.Sometimes it gets up around my chin.BackgroundAn American in Paris(1951) is one of the greatest, most elegant, and most celebrated of MGM""s 50""s musicals, with Gershwin lyrics and musical score (lyrics by Ira and music by composer George from some of their compositions of the 20s and 30s), lavish sets and costumes, tremendous Technicolor cinematography, and a romantic love story set to music and dance.