Gigi (Special Edition) (2-DVD) G
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: G
- Run Time: 1 hours, 32 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 16, 2008
- 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:
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: 3/4 --
Gigi is an enjoyable parfait - a frothy concoction that at times makes the viewer giddy - but it lacks the traits of greatness one might expect from a production so dizzyingly honored.
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ReelViews
Colette's tale about the training of a schoolgirl cocotte blown up into a full-scale musical, starts things oil with a bang.
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The Spectator
[A] Parisian valentine...garnished with lots of actual locations. -- Grade: A
Entertainment Weekly
...Widely regarded as the last of the great MGM musicals...
USA Today
Rating: 3/5 --
Lovely to behold, but the story has dated very badly.
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Examiner.com
The performances are well nigh faultless.
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Variety
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.
Description by Warner Home Video:
A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor (Louis Jourdan) in Paris offers them all to Gigi (Leslie Caron). But she, who's gone from girlish gawkishness to cultured glamour before our eyes, yearns for that wonderful something money can't buy. Producer Arthur Freed, director Vincente Minnelli and a cast rife with Gallic charm combine talents for this lavish winner of nine Academy Awards including Best Picture. Its Alan Jay Lerner/Frederick Loewe songs can sparkle like "The Night They Invented Champagne" or caress with title-tune tenderness. "I Remember It Well," Maurice Chevalier sings to Hermione Gingold. You'll remember Gigi forever.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 33,754
- UPC: 883929003389
- Shipping Weight: 0.31/lbs (approx)
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