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Gigi (Blu-Ray)
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Gigi (Blu-Ray)
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| | | "Winner of 9 Academy Awards, Including Best Picture."
Home, motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: man-about-town Gaston (Louis Jourdan) offers them all to Gigi (Leslie Caron). But she, who's gone from girlish gawkishness to cultured glamour before our eyes, yearns for something money can't buy. Producer Arthur Freed, director Vincente Minnelli and a cast rife with Gallic charm join for this lavish winner of nine Academy Awards including Best Picture. It's Alan Jay Lerner/Frederick Loewe songs 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.
"Exuberant. Bright and witty. The stars are most appealing." Danny Peary, Guide for the Film Fanatic
"Charming...exquisitely filmed, perfectly cast..." Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide
"A charming delight." MaryAnn Johanson, The Flick Filosopher
"A marvelous, original work..." Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"Lavish, glossy and eminently tuneful." The Motion Picture Guide
Editor's Note
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.
| Features | Thank Heaven! The Making Of Gigi: A Sparkling New Documentary About The Turbulent Creation Of A Musical Classic Featuring Leslie Caron & Vincente Minnelli | | 1949 Nonmusical First Screen Version Of Gigi, Starring Daniele Delorme In The Title Role & Directed By Jacqueline Audry | | Audio Commentary By Historian Jeanine Basinger With Leslie Caron | | Audio: English Dolby Digital TrueHD 5.1 Surround Sound, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Audio: French Dolby Digital Stereo | | Audio: Spanish, Italian, German Dolby Digital Mono | | Classic CinemaScope Cartoon: The Vanishing Duck | | Dubbed: French, Spanish, Italian, German | | Interactive Menus | | Original Theatrical Trailer | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Italian, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish | | This Is A Blu-Ray DVD Made For Blue-Laser Format Players Which Produce Higher Quality Picture & Sound | | Vintage Short: The Million Dollar Nickel |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 3/31/2009 |
| Running Time: 116 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1958 | | Catalog ID: 1000038937 | | UPC: 00883929020447 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 2.40:1 |
| Cast & Crew | Eva Gabor | | Maurice Chevalier | | Monique Van Vooren | | John Abbott | | Jacques Bergerac | | Isabel Jeans | | Louis Jourdan | | Hermione Gingold | | Leslie Caron | | Andr Previn - Conductor | | Arthur Freed - Producer | | Joseph Ruttenberg - Director of Photography | | Frederick Loewe - Composer | | Alan Jay Lerner - Lyricist | | Adrienne Fazan - Editor | | Cecil Beaton - Costume Designer | | Ray June - Director of Photography | | Vincente Minnelli - Director |
| Awards |
Oscar (1959) | | Adrienne Fazan, Winner, Best Film Editing | | Alan Jay Lerner, Winner, Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium | | Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe, Winner, Best Music, Original Song | | Andre Previn, Winner, Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture | | Arthur Freed, Winner, Best Picture | | Cecil Beaton, Winner, Best Costume Design, Black-and-White or Color | | E. Preston Ames, et. al., Winner, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White or Color | |
Golden Globe (1959) | | Gigi, Winner, Best Motion Picture - Musical | | Hermione Gingold, Winner, Best Supporting Actress | |
Oscar (1959) | | Joseph Ruttenberg, Winner, Best Cinematography, Color | | Vincente Minnelli, Winner, Best Director | |
Golden Globe (1959) | | Vincente Minnelli, Winner, Best Motion Picture Director |
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