Set in Paris at the turn of the century, this delightful Lerner and Loewe musical, based on a story by Collette, follows a precocious French girl as she is groomed into a would-be courtesan, blossoming into a stunning woman. The story provides plenty of opportunity for Minnelli and MGM to pull out all the stops in its first musical production shot on location. Paris and Leslie Caron never looked lovelier, and Louis Jourdan and Maurice Chevalier are so French, no? Songs include: "Gigi," "Thank Heaven for Little Girls," and "Ah, Yes, I Remember It Well." Academy Award Nominations: 9. Academy Awards: 9, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best (Adapted) Screenplay.
Rating: G (MPAA) Rating Reason: n/a Runtime: 116 minutes DVD Code: Region 1 US, CA Genre: Musical & Performing Arts Color: Color Rating: Blu-ray Disc Features: Region [unknown] Keep Case Audio: (unspecified) English Dolby Digital Dolby True HD 5.1 Subtitles - Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish Subtitles - English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish Additional Release Material: Audio Commentary: 1. Commentary By Historian Jeanine Basinger With Leslie Caron Trailers: 1. Theatrical Trailer Documentary: 1. Turbulent Creation Of A Musical Classic Featurette: 2. Transfer From Restored Picture And Audio Elements 3. 1949 Nonmusical First Screen Version Of Gigi 4. The Million Dollar Nickel 5. Classic Cinemascope Cartoon The Vanishing Duck Eva Gabor, Maurice Chevalier, Monique Van Vooren, John Abbott, Jacques Bergerac, Isabel Jeans, Louis Jourdan, Louis Gendre, Hermione Gingold, Leslie Caron
Vincente Minnelli
Set in Paris at the turn of the century, this delightful Lerner and Loewe musical, based on a story by Collette, follows a precocious French girl as she is groomed into a would-be courtesan, blossoming into a stunning woman. The story provides plenty of opportunity for Minnelli and MGM to pull out all the stops in its first musical production shot on location. Paris and Leslie Caron never looked lovelier, and Louis Jourdan and Maurice Chevalier are so French, no? Songs include: "Gigi," "Thank Heaven for Little Girls," and "Ah, Yes, I Remember It Well." Academy Award Nominations: 9. Academy Awards: 9, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best (Adapted) Screenplay. () GIGI was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1991.
Song composer Frederick Loewe, screenwriter-lyricist Alan Jay Lerner, and production designer Cecil Beaton, who collaborated on the 1956 Broadway production of "My Fair Lady" went on the work together again on "Gigi."
() "...Widely regarded as the last of the great MGM musicals..."
USA Today (10/19/1994) "...A marvelous, original work..."
Chicago Sun-Times (03/01/1996) "...Louis Jourdan is as charming a rake as he was in LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN..."
Sight and Sound (05/01/2000) "[A] sublime riff on Pygmalion..."
Total Film (02/01/2004) "[A] Parisian valentine...garnished with lots of actual locations." -- Grade: A
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