Gigi

Gigi

 Cast: Leslie Caron
Leslie Caron
, Louis Jourdan
Louis Jourdan
, Maurice Chevalier
Maurice Chevalier
, Hermione Gingold
Hermione Gingold
, Eva Gabor
Eva Gabor
Gigi

Gigi

 Cast: Leslie Caron
Leslie Caron
, Louis Jourdan
Louis Jourdan
, Maurice Chevalier
Maurice Chevalier
, Hermione Gingold
Hermione Gingold
, Eva Gabor
Eva Gabor

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Overview

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.

Product Details

Release Date: 11/09/2010
UPC: 0883929157891
Original Release: 1958
Rating: G
Source: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Presentation: [Wide Screen]
Sound: [Dolby Digital Mono, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language: English
Time: 1:55:00
Sales rank: 14,469

Special Features

Commentary by historian Jeanine Basinger with Leslie Caron; Vintage short the million dollar nickel; Classic cinemascope cartoon the vanishing duck; Theatrical trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
Leslie Caron Gigi
Louis Jourdan Gaston
Maurice Chevalier Honore
Hermione Gingold Madame Alvarez
Eva Gabor Liane
Isabel Jeans Aunt Alicia
Jacques Bergerac Sandomir
John Abbott Manuel
Monique Van Vooren Showgirl
Lydia Stevens Simone
Edwin Jerome Charles the Butler
Dorothy Neumann Designer
Marilyn Sims Redhead
Richard Bean Harlequin
Pat Sheahan Blonde
Leroy Winebrenner Lifeguard
Marya Ploss Model
Jack Trevan Coachman
Maurice Marsac le prince Berensky
Jean Ozenne monsieur Lachaille
Roger Saget Pierre
Jack Ary Waiter at "Palais de Glace"
Cecil Beaton Gentleman in Park
Cilly Feindt Girl on Horseback at Pré Catelan
Corinne Marchand Young Lady with White Sunshade
Anne-Marie Mersen Girl at Maxim's
Bernard Musson Guest at Maxim's
Pat Sheehan Blonde
François Valorbe Henri - Gaston's Butler
Betty Wand Gigi
Alan Jay Lerner Composer
Frederick Loewe Composer
André Previn Composer
Conrad Salinger Composer

Technical Credits
Vincente Minnelli Director
Arthur Freed Producer
Alan Jay Lerner Screenwriter
Colette Screenwriter
Wesley C. Miller Sound Effects
James Brock Sound Effects
Herman Groves Sound Effects
Frederick Loewe Screenwriter
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