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Gigi

Thank heaven for Gigi

6.2 / 10

116 minutes

1958-05-15

English

US

Actors :

Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold, Eva Gabor, Jacques Bergerac, Isabel Jeans, John Abbott, Corinne Marchand, Marie-Hélène Arnaud, Anne-Marie Mersen, Jack Ary, Daniel Aubé, Richard Bean, Cecil Beaton

Description

A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, who's gone from girlish gawkishness to cultured glamour before our eyes, yearns for that wonderful something money can't buy.

Reviews

John Chard

John Chard

5/16/2024, 3:22:26 PM

Thank heavens, for musicals. Based on Anita Loos' play, out of the novel written by Colette, Gigi snatched a ream of Academy Awards and promptly became the course of much debate and criticism for ever and a day it seems. The problem, as most musical aficionados will attest, is that Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe rehashed their previous stage hit "My Fair Lady". Which to an extent is true...