" In he lobby of the hotel, they overhear Robie mentioning to a jewelry salesman that he is an American from Portland, Oregon.In he ambiguous ending, like many of TV""s cartoon characters, he walked off the stage - and literally walked on water - reinforced by the film""s final refrain: "Life is a state of mind.I offer you truth!" One of the crowd members shouted back: "We don""t want your truth!" Gringoire was further ridiculed and the show was interrupted and broken up by the followers of Clopin, who threw garbage at the stage.The success of the balletic themes that combined dance with design and music in Powell and Pressburger""s British film inspired director Vincente Minnelli to follow suit in his own masterpieceAn American in Paris (1951)- he had experimented with shorter ballet sequences in his earlier filmsYolanda and the Thief (1945)andZiegfeld Follies (1946).