Gigi (Blu-ray) G
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Gigi
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: G
- Run Time: 1 hours, 55 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 2, 2010
- Originally Released: 1958
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan & Leslie Caron | |
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
Rating: 8/10 --
...one of Hollywood's most celebrated classics from an era when studios were still making meticulous, tune-filled musicals.
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Movie Metropolis
Rating: 3/5 --
Lovely to behold, but the story has dated very badly.
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Examiner.com
It's easy to drift away from the story and become absorbed in Minnelli's impossibly delicate textures, but there is a little something here for everybody.
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Chicago Reader
The great Minnelli was surely one of the masters of the American musical, but Gigi was one of his misfires.
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Combustible Celluloid
Rating: 4/4 --
With Louis Jourdan as the bored playboy, Maurice Chevalier a delight as the ageless Gallic rake and Leslie Caron radiating her sunny gamin charm as Gigi.
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Chicago Tribune
...Louis Jourdan is as charming a rake as he was in LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN...
Sight and Sound
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.