Gigi [videorecording] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents ; an Arthur Freed production ; screenplay and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner ; directed by Vincente Minnelli
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 1000035859 | Warner Home VideoLanguage: English, French Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French, Japanese Publication details: Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2008]Edition: 2-disc special edDescription: 2 videodiscs (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 1419866362
- 9781419866364
- Gigi (Motion picture). French & English.
- Gigi (Motion picture : 1949)
- Music, Frederick Loewe
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Adult DVD
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Main Library | DVD | MUSIC Gigi | Available | 33111006606996 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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, Rovi
Based on the novel by Colette.
Special features: Commentary by historian Jeanine Basinger with Leslie Caron; vintage short 'The million dollar nickel'; cartoon 'The vanishing duck'; theatrical trailer; 'Thank heaven! the making of Gigi' sparkling new documentary about the turbulent creation of a musical classic featuring Leslie Caron and Vincente Minnelli; 1949 nonmusical first screen version of Gigi, starring Danièle Delorme in the title role and directed by Jacqueline Audrey.
Music, Frederick Loewe
Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold, Eva Gabor.
A wealthy Gaston finds out he prefers a young Parisian girl to be his wife rather than his mistress.
Rating: G.
DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital, Dolby Surround 5.1, mono., dual-layer.
English or French dialogue; English, French or Japanese subtitles; subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.