Blu-ray Disc Features:
- Rated: G
- Run Time: 1 hours, 56 minutes
- Video: Color
- Released: February 24, 2009
- Originally Released: 1958
- Label: Warner Home Video
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Packaging: Keep Case
- Audio:
- (unspecified) English
- Dolby Digital
- Dolby True HD 5.1
- Subtitles - Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish
- Subtitles - English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
- Additional Release Material:
- Audio Commentary:
- Commentary By Historian Jeanine Basinger With Leslie Caron
- Trailers:
- Theatrical Trailer
- Documentary:
- Turbulent Creation Of A Musical Classic
- Featurette:
- Transfer From Restored Picture And Audio Elements
- 1949 Nonmusical First Screen Version Of Gigi
- The Million Dollar Nickel
- Classic Cinemascope Cartoon The Vanishing Duck
Performers, Cast and Crew:
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Starring
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Louis Jourdan,
Leslie Caron,
Maurice Chevalier,
John Abbott,
Hermione Gingold,
Isabel Jeans,
Monique Van Vooren,
Jacques Bergerac &
Eva Gabor
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Performer
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Hermione Gingold,
Isabel Jeans,
Eva Gabor,
Monique Van Vooren,
Jacques Bergerac &
John Abbott
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Directed by
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Vincente Minnelli
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Edited by
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Adrienne Fazan
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Composition by
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Frederick Loewe
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Conductor
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André Previn
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Lyricist
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Alan Jay Lerner
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Produced by
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Arthur Freed
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Director of Photography
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Joseph Ruttenberg &
Ray June
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Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1958 -
Best Adapted or Musical Song/Score: André Previn
Academy Awards 1958 -
Best Adapted Screenplay: Alan Jay Lerner
Academy Awards 1958 -
Best Art Direction - Set Decoration (b&w or Color): Arthur Freed
Academy Awards 1958 -
Best Cinematography: Joseph Ruttenberg
Academy Awards 1958 -
Best Costume Design (b&w or Color)
Academy Awards 1958 -
Best Director: Vincente Minnelli
Academy Awards 1958 -
Best Film Editing
Academy Awards 1958 -
Best Original Song: Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe
Academy Awards 1958 -
Best Picture
Entertainment Reviews:
USA Today - 10/19/1994
"...Widely regarded as the last of the great MGM musicals..."
Chicago Sun-Times - 03/01/1996
"...A marvelous, original work..."
Sight and Sound - 05/01/2000
"...Louis Jourdan is as charming a rake as he was in LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN..."
Total Film - 02/01/2004
"[A] sublime riff on Pygmalion..."
Entertainment Weekly - 09/19/2008
"[A] Parisian valentine...garnished with lots of actual locations." -- Grade: A
Product Description:
Set in Paris at the turn of the century, this delightful Lerner and Loewe musical, based on a story by Collette, follows a precocious French girl as she is groomed into a would-be courtesan, blossoming into a stunning woman. The story provides plenty of opportunity for Minnelli and MGM to pull out all the stops in its first musical production shot on location. Paris and Leslie Caron never looked lovelier, and Louis Jourdan and Maurice Chevalier are so French, no? Songs include: "Gigi," "Thank Heaven for Little Girls," and "Ah, Yes, I Remember It Well." Academy Award Nominations: 9. Academy Awards: 9, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best (Adapted) Screenplay.
Plot Keywords:
Classic |
Coming Of Age |
Essential Cinema |
Love Story |
Recommended |
Romance |
Theatrical Release
Production Notes:
- GIGI was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1991.
- Song composer Frederick Loewe, screenwriter-lyricist Alan Jay Lerner, and production designer Cecil Beaton, who collaborated on the 1956 Broadway production of "My Fair Lady" went on the work together again on "Gigi."
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