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Gigi

Gigi

Actor(s): Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold, Eva Gabor
Director(s): Vincente Minnelli
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Movie Details

MPAA Rating: G
Content Advisory: Adult Situations, Suitable for Children
Movie Release: 1958
DVD Release: 05/02/2000
Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV,Pan and Scan - Closed Captioned
Audio Tracks: English, French
Subtitles: English, French
SwapaDVD Credits: 1
Number of Discs: 1
Run Time: 1 hrs 56 mins
Studio: Warner Home Video
Members Wishing: 22
Genres: Musical, Comedy of Manners, Musical Romance
See Also: Gigi, Gigi [Repackaged], Gigi [50th Anniversary Special Edition], Gigi [50th Anniversary Special Edition], Gigi [Blu-ray], Gigi [Blu-ray]

DVD Synopsis

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

Actors

Leslie Caron - Gigi
Maurice Chevalier - Honore Lachaille
Louis Jourdan - Gaston Lachaille
Hermione Gingold - Mme. Alvarez
Eva Gabor - Liane d'Exelmans
Isabel Jeans - Aunt Alicia


Editorial Review of DVD

One of Vincente Minnelli's best musicals, Gigi, comes to DVD with two different images. The widescreen anamorphic transfer preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 2.35:1 and is preferable to the standard full-frame 1.33:1 image. English and French soundtracks are rendered in Dolby Digital Stereo. Subtitles are accessible in these two languages as well. Supplemental materials are limited to a theatrical trailer. Gigi has never looked this good on home video, making this disc of great interest for fans of movie musicals. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

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