Abstract
Between his first film, Cabin in the Sky, in 1943, and his most recent, A Matter of Time, in 1976, Vincente Minnelli directed thirty-two complete movies. Thirteen of these have been film musicals. During the 1940s and 1950s, the second and third full decades of sound cinema, Minnelli brought this uniquely American film genre to fruition with such films as Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), The Pirate (1948), An American in Paris (1951), and Gigi (1958). In his hands, this genre became a truly poetic fantasy form that freed the director to experiment with the rhythmic coordination of camera movement and music, to explore innovative color and lighting effects, and, thus, to create some of the loveliest and most imaginative films in the history of American cinema.
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