![]() Comedy, romance and many a delightful song ensue. However with Gigi growing up and Gaston's current mistress being caught up in scandal can these two escape the inevitable roles their two worlds seemed determine to place on them and perhaps explore the true feelings that lie beneath their friendship? All this takes place under the eye of Honore Lachaille (played by the legendary Maurice Chevalier) Gaston's charming, cheery and youthful Uncle who doubles as the movie's narrator and Gaston's mentor in the story. Her respite from her lessons comes in the form of her good friend Gaston - a wealthy aristocrat and playboy who is bored by the decadent but superficial world he inhabits. Both try to teach her the ways of good manners, first class diamonds and rolling cigars however the vivacious and idealistic tomboy is resistant. : Gigi (DVD) (Rpkg) : Colette, Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Lowe, Vincente Minnelli, Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold, Eva Gabor, Jacques Bergerac: Movies & TV Movies & TV Today's Deals Featured Deals & New Releases The Big DVD & Blu-ray Blowout STREAM ANYTIME with Prime Video from 9. She is mentored by her kind but firm Grandmother who has raised her and her glamorous, flamboyant Aunt Alicia. “So, everything is absolutely perfect.” Thank heaven for that.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. “Not only does she win financial success and respectability, but she wins the love of basically the man she just adores,” said Caron. Gigi 1958 Directed by Vincente Minnelli Synopsis Thank heaven for Gigi A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. Or maybe it’s Gigi herself, at its center, who finally finds the world at her feet. Maybe that’s what has kept audiences coming back for 60 years, and what earned the film an unprecedented nine Academy Awards, including best picture, in 1959. In the glamorous Paris of Gigi, nothing is what it seems, yet everything is a joy to behold-a sort of dazzling musical merry-go-round. Minnelli, I’m so sorry, but this is the head waiter of Maxim’s! This is not an actor.” Horning 's nomination and win was posthumously, as he died after completing his work on Gigi (1958) and in the midst of the production on Ben-Hur (1959) and North by Northwest (1959) the last two films would earn him Oscar nominations and a win (for Ben-Hur alone) the next year. 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. With Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold. Minnelli’s assistant rushed over, whispering into the director’s ear, “Mr. Gigi: Directed by Vincente Minnelli, Charles Walters. “Will somebody teach that man how to hold a menu?” he called. Finally, Minnelli pointed to the headwaiter. Caron remembers Minnelli asking them to repeat the sequence over and over, without explaining what was wrong. At the beginning of the scene, Caron and Louis Jourdan were to sweep into the restaurant, greet the headwaiter, and receive menus as they sat down at their table. The extras themselves baffled him a bit more. ![]() During a crowded scene at Maxim’s, he used the restaurant’s art nouveau mirrors to emphasize the colored plumes and top hats of the stylish throng-painstakingly positioning his equipment so that the period elements could be seen, but his electric lights and cameras could not. ![]() “In 1900, nobody smiled-let your face repose.”ĭirector Vincente Minnelli insisted on authenticity as well. ![]() “Don’t smile,” Caron remembered Beaton telling her. “He never stopped!” The images, taken in natural light, are as evocative of Gigi’s production as they are of its Belle Époque period. “Between scenes, he would drag us into the landscape and make beautiful portraits of us,” she said. Caron recalled that Beaton was also responsible for Gigi’s lavish scenery, though he was uncredited for it, and that he took photographs on his own throughout filming. GIGI (1958) 'Thank Heaven for the Miracle of Maturity' Content: -1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults. ![]()
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