Rating: G
Genre:
Musical
Release Date: 09/16/2008
SubTitles: English/French/Japanese
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1/DD1
Run Time: 115 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Suitable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
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.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
;)
