Gigi [videorecording] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer presents an Arthur Freed production ; directed by Vincente Minnelli.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 65060 | Warner Home VideoPublication details: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2000]Edition: Standard and widescreen versionsDescription: 1 videodisc (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0790744074 :
- 9780790744070 :
- Screenplay and lyrics, Alan Jay Lerner ; music, Frederick Loewe ; costume, scenery & production design, Cecil Beaton ; editing, Adrienne Fazan ; cinematography, Joseph Ruttenburg.
- Academy Award, 1959: Best picture; Best director; Best art direction, set decoration, b&w or color; Best cinematography, color; Best costume design, b&w or color; Best film editing; Best music, scoring of a musical picture; Best music, song; Best writing, screenplay based on material from another medium.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Dr. James Carlson Library | DVD | MUSIC Gigi | Checked out | 06/04/2024 | 33111004464620 |
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.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1958.
Special features: Interactive menus, theatrical trailer, scene access.
Screenplay and lyrics, Alan Jay Lerner ; music, Frederick Loewe ; costume, scenery & production design, Cecil Beaton ; editing, Adrienne Fazan ; cinematography, Joseph Ruttenburg.
Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold, Eva Gabor, Jacques Bergerac, Isabel Jeans.
A musical set in Paris in which a girl trained as a high society courtesan falls in love with a rich and handsome boulevardier.
MPAA rating: G.
DVD.
Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
Languages and subtitles in English and French.
Academy Award, 1959: Best picture; Best director; Best art direction, set decoration, b&w or color; Best cinematography, color; Best costume design, b&w or color; Best film editing; Best music, scoring of a musical picture; Best music, song; Best writing, screenplay based on material from another medium.