


Adaptation Dye-Job: In the novella Gigi has ash blonde hair and blue eyes.

Can he really bear to take her as his mistress in a transactional relationship?īetty Wand filled in for most of Leslie Caron's singing. Over time, however, Gaston comes to the realization that Gigi has grown up. For quite a while, the two see each other as nothing more than good friends. He finds refuge in his time with Madame Alvarez (Hermione Gingold) and her tomboyish granddaughter Gilberte, or "Gigi" for short a sincere and happy teen being raised by her refined great-aunt and grandmother to be a wealthy man's courtesan.
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In Paris during The Gay '90s, Gaston Lachaille is a rich young playboy who wants to break free from the stultifying traditions of his family. note Not counting the latter's two special awards. Starring Leslie Caron as the eponymous Gigi, Louis Jourdan as Gaston, and Maurice Chevalier as the narrator Honoré, the film won all of its nine Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, breaking the record set by Gone with the Wind. Honoré Lachaille, singing the most famous numberĪ 1958 MGM musical film based on the 1944 novella by French author Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, Gigi was directed by Vincente Minnelli and written by Lerner and Loewe, following their success with My Fair Lady.
