Gene Kelly got her to the movies for the film An American in Paris 1951 in 1951.
She's not uninterested in having a boyfriend so much as she's jealous of the time and space to think privately about what she's going to do for herself.
Making do with the makeshift and crumbling walls, with each other's eccentricities, and with the problems weighing on their own hearts, the residents do not come to love each other.