In the confusion, the real Ethan (after ripping off his ""Stamp"" mask) stole the vial of Bellerophon and raced from the facility." 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.[Burden""s story is, in actuality, the truth of the rise and fall of a political king, who like Humpty Dumpty in the rhyme, falls from grace and can""t be put back together again.The man seated at the bar, coarse-talking Richard ""Curly"" Hoff (Thomas Gomez), repeated ""Toots"" claim that the hotel was permanently closed for the next month: "Look, Mister, if you""re thinking of putting up here, the hotel""s closed.