Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)With a production budget of $60 million, and box-office gross receipts of $268 million (domestic) and $484.She surreptitiously gives a letter to the attendant (Bob Sherman) to post for her.While they continue driving (and the camera views them head-on through the windshield in a medium two-shot), she is condescending toward his kind of affluent, narcissistic, ""playboyish"" man - character traits that she has analyzed and deciphered from all his unfavorable outward appearances and clues: a flashy sports car, jazzy radio, trench coat and fancy clothes, and a tough-guy, hedonistic, self-serving pose.[IMPORTANT - PLEASE NOTE:in Margaret Mitchell""s novel, Charles Hamilton has an unspoken understanding of marriage with cousin Honey Wilkes,notwith India Wilkes (who is engaged to marry Stuart Tarleton), prior to falling in love with Scarlett.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.