Book Description A story of burgeoning womanhood and blossoming love, Colette's masterpiece reveals the author's grasp of the politics of relationships. With music, drama, and the charm of French-inflected English, this unabridged novella follows Gigi's training as a courtesan. Leslie Caron, the star of the best-loved film based on Gigi brings to life the Paris of 1899 in all its sensuous detail. 2 cassettes.
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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 Caron never looked lovelier, and Jourdan and 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.
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Young Gigi is all arms and legs and giddy enthusiasm. Can this irrepressible tomboy be turned into a courtesan elegant enough to conquer love-besotted, turn-of-the-century Paris? Mais Oui! And what happens when love conquers Gigi? Ooh la la!
Director Vincente Minnelli and writer Alan Jay Lerner adapt Colette's novel to the screen, combining a sparkling Lerner and Loewe score, resplendent sets and costumes, sumptuous on-location shooting and a renowned cast into a musical romp as bubbly as champagne. The cast includes Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold and the incomparable Maurice Chevalier. Whether singing the praises of young love ("Thank Heaven For Little Girls") or love long past ("I Remember It Well"), Chevalier is gallantry personified. So, come dine at Maxim's and whirl through the Tuileries with Gigi, the film "aglitter and aglow with songs, enchantment and charm to spare," --Newsweek.
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Gigi, Vincente Minnelli's 1958 adaptation of Colette's story about a girl (Leslie Caron) groomed as a courtesan but desired as a wife by a Parisian playboy (Louis Jordan), won a lot of Oscars, but it also has the unusual distinction of being an MGM musical shot on location in the City of Lights. What a musical it is (by Lerner and Loewe): Maurice Chevalier and Hermione Gingold crooning "Ah, Yes, I Remember It Well", plus the songs "Thank Heaven for Little Girls", "Gigi", "I'm a Bore", and "She's Not Thinking of Me". Director Minnelli makes a sumptuous, dreamy, almost laid-back affair of it all and the indispensable cast is forever etched into memory. Hollywood's long-running infatuation with continental grace and manners, the memory of a much earlier time imported to American movies through such immigrant directors as Ernst Lubitsch, may have finally come to a gentle end with this film. --Tom Keogh
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