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Gigi

Title:

Gigi

Author:

Minnelli, Vincente, director.

Lerner, Alan Jay, 1918-1986, screenwriter, lyracist.

Loewe, Frederick, 1901-1988, composer.

Caron, Leslie, actor.

Chevalier, Maurice, 1888-1972, actor.

Jourdan, Louis, actor.

Gingold, Hermione, 1897-1987, actor.

Gábor, Eva, 1921-1995, actor.

Previn, Andre, 1929-2019, conductor.

Colette, 1873-1954, creator.

Summary:

Set in turn-of-the-century Paris, a young girl, Gigi, is being groomed by her grandmother to become a courtesan.

Audience:

MPAA rating: G.

General Note:

Based on the novel by Colette.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1958.

Features: Commentary by historian Jeanine Basinger with Leslie Caron, vintage short "The million dollar nickel," cartoon "The vanishing duck," theatrical trailer.

Edition:

Anamorphic widescreen.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Genre:

Romance films.

Musical films.

Film adaptations.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Fiction films.

Feature films.

Personal Subject:

Colette, 1873-1954-Film adaptations.

Subject Term:

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

Mistresses -- Drama.

Author(s):

Minnelli, Vincente,

Lerner, Alan Jay, 1918-1986,

Loewe, Frederick, 1901-1988,

Caron, Leslie,

Chevalier, Maurice, 1888-1972,

Jourdan, Louis,

Gingold, Hermione, 1897-1987,

Gábor, Eva, 1921-1995,

Previn, Andre, 1929-2019,

Colette, 1873-1954,

Publisher:

Warner Home Video,

Publication Date:

2010

ISBN:

9780780665835

Publication Information:

Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2010.

Award Note:

Academy Award winner, 1958: Best Picture (Arthur Freed, producer) ; Best Writing, Screenplay based on material from another medium (Alan Jay Lerner) ; Best Directing (Vincente Minnelli) ; Best Art Direction ; Best Cinematography, Color ; Best Costume Design (Cecil Beaton) ; Best Film Editing (Adrienne Fazan) ; Best Music, Scoring of a musical picture (Andre Previn) ; Best Music, Song "Gigi" (Music by Frederick Loewe ; Lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner)

Call Number:

DVD GIGI

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Summary

Leslie Caron plays Gigi, a young girl raised by two veteran Parisian courtesans (Hermione Gingold and Isabel Jeans) to be the mistress of wealthy young Gaston (Louis Jourdan). When Gaston falls in love with Gigi and asks her to be his wife, Jeans is appalled: never has anyone in their family ever stooped to anything so bourgeois as marriage! Weaving in and out of the story is Maurice Chevalier as an aging boulevardier who, years earlier, had been in love with Gingold's character. Chevalier gets most of the best Lerner & Loewe tunes, including Thank Heaven for Little Girls, I'm Glad I'm Not Young Any More, and his matchless duet with Gingold, I Remember it Well. Caron's best number (dubbed by Betty Wand) is The Night They Invented Champagne while Jourdan gets the honor of introducing the title song. Filmed on location in Paris, Gigi won several Oscars, including Best Picture; it also represented the successful American movie comeback of Chevalier, who thanks to this film was "forgiven" for his reputed collaboration with the Nazis during World War II. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi