Gigi (Blu-ray) G
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Gigi
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: G
- Run Time: 1 hours, 56 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: February 24, 2009
- Originally Released: 1958
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Louis Jourdan, Leslie Caron & Maurice Chevalier | |
Performer: | Jacques Bergerac, Hermione Gingold, Isabel Jeans, Eva Gabor, John Abbott & Monique Van Vooren | |
Directed by | Vincente Minnelli | |
Edited by | Adrienne Fazan | |
Composition by | Frederick Loewe | |
Conductor: | André Previn | |
Lyricist: | Alan Jay Lerner | |
Produced by | Arthur Freed | |
Director of Photography: | Joseph Ruttenberg & Ray June |
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): Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1958 -
Best Director: Vincente Minnelli
Academy Awards 1958 -
Best Film Editing: Not Applicable
Academy Awards 1958 -
Best Original Song: Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe
Academy Awards 1958 -
Best Picture: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
With so many outstanding performances in the film, it is to Maurice Chevalier's great credit that he is able to steal the show.
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New York Daily News
[A] sublime riff on Pygmalion...
Total Film
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Given the shortage of dancing and soaring vocal melodies...Minnelli must lean heavily on personality and a spectacle defined by the pageantry of historic locations, sets and costumes. [Blu-ray]
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Groucho Reviews
Rating: 3/5 --
Lovely to behold, but the story has dated very badly.
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Examiner.com
Gigi is dressed to kill, but if all the French finery impresses the customers, it also smothers the story.
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TIME Magazine
The performances are well nigh faultless.
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Variety
[A] Parisian valentine...garnished with lots of actual locations. -- Grade: A
Entertainment Weekly
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.