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Gigi (French pronunciation:) is a 1958 American musical romantic comedy film directed by Vincente Minnelli and processed using Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Eastmancolor film process Metrocolor. The screenplay by Alan Jay Lerner is based on the 1944 novella of the same name by Colette.
Gigi: Directed by Vincente Minnelli, Charles Walters. With Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold. Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship which may not stay platonic for long.
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- Comedy, Musical, Romance
- Vincente Minnelli, Charles Walters
- 1958-06-25
Gigi is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. It is based on the 1944 novella Gigi by Colette and 1958 hit musical film of the same name. The story concerns Gigi, a free-spirited teenaged girl living in Paris at the turn of the 20th century.
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A Parisian girl (Leslie Caron) is raised to be a kept woman but dreams of love and marriage in Gigi (1958), directed by Vincente Minnelli. TCM fan Christopher Carhart joins Ben Mankiewicz for an introduction and comments following Gigi, 1958. Guest host Alicia Malone introduces Gigi, 1958.
- Vincente Minnelli
- Leslie Caron
Gigi, living in the Belle Époque era of Paris, is training to be a courtesan- a highly educated and cultured woman who will become a society darling and mistress to wealthy men. She is mentored by her kind but firm Grandmother who has raised her and her glamorous, flamboyant Aunt Alicia.
May 14, 2018 · On its 60th anniversary, Gigi remains MGM’s most elegant musical—and maybe its most unlikely. Colette’s story, set around 1900, follows the youngest girl in a family of Parisian cocottes ...
