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Gigi
Release date 15th May 1958
Country : USA
Running time : 119 mins
Genre : Musical
Starring Leslie Caron, Hermonie Gingold, Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier
Screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner based on the play by Colette
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
A Metro Goldwyn Mayer Picture
A young girl in turn of the century Paris is schooled in becoming a lady by her aunt. Gaston a notorious womaniser falls in love with her eventually deciding to end his aimless life and ask for her hand in marriage.
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Movie GuideRelease date 15th May 1958
Country : USA
Running time : 119 mins
Genre : Musical
Starring Leslie Caron, Hermonie Gingold, Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier
Screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner based on the play by Colette
Directed by Vincente Minnelli
A Metro Goldwyn Mayer Picture
A young girl in turn of the century Paris is schooled in becoming a lady by her aunt. Gaston a notorious womaniser falls in love with her eventually deciding to end his aimless life and ask for her hand in marriage.
Last of the great MGM musicals
benefits from a great Lerner and Loewe score and an engaging story.
Caron and Jourdan are fine but Chevalier steals every scene he's in as
an ageing roue. It is fitting in a way that the great French star
should have appeared in this one of the last great musicals
specifically written for the screen when he had also appeared in one of
the earliest The Love Parade (1929).
Songs by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick
Loewe include Thank Heaven for Little Girls, It's A Bore, The Night
They Invented Champagne, I Remember It Well, I'm Glad I'm Not Young
Anymore, Gigi
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Written content copyright Derek McLellan,2005.
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