| DVD Information |  | Gigi | | Caron, Leslie | | Chevalier, Maurice | | UPC: 027616748225 | | Musicals & Performing Arts : General | | Amazon.com essential video
Vincente Minnelli's 1958 adaptation of Colette's story about a girl (Leslie Caron) groomed as a courtesan--but desired as a wife by a Parisian playboy (Louis Jordan)--won a lot of Oscars, but it also has the unusual distinction of being an MGM musical shot on location in the City of Lights. What a musical it is (by Lerner and Loewe): Maurice Chevalier and Hermione Gingold crooning Ah, Yes, I Remember It Well, plus the songs Thank Heaven for Little Girls, Gigi, I'm a Bore, and She's Not Thinking of Me. Director Vincente Minnelli (Some Came Running, Meet Me in St. Louis) makes a sumptuous, dreamy, almost laid-back affair of it all, and the indispensable cast is forever etched into memory. Hollywood's long-running infatuation with continental grace and manners, the memory of a much earlier time imported to American movies through such immigrant directors as Ernst Lubitsch, may have finally come to a gentle end with this film. --Tom Keogh | | | | Products related to "Gigi" from Amazon.com | |
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