Gigi
Starring: Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan, Maurice Chevalier
Director: Vincente Minnelli, Charles Walters
Writer: Alan Jay Lerner, Colette
Producer: Arthur Freed
Gigi (French pronunciation: [ʒiʒi]) 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 by Colette. The film features songs with lyrics by Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, arranged and conducted by André Previn.
Trivia
- Won the Academy Award for Best Picture.
- Won the Academy Award for Best Director.
- Won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color.
- Won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing.
- Won the Academy Award for Best Writing, Adapted Screenplay.
- Won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design.
- Won the Academy Award for Best Production Design.
- Won the Academy Award for Best Original Musical Score.
- Selected for the National Board of Review: Top Ten Films.
- Based on Gigi (novella by Colette).
- Hollywood producer Arthur Freed first proposed a musicalization of the Colette novella to Alan Jay Lerner during the Philadelphia tryout of My Fair Lady in 1956.
- Another roadblock to the project was the fact Colette's widower had sold the rights to her novella to Gilbert Miller, who planned to produce a film version of the 1954 stage adaptation by Anita Loos.
- Lerner's songwriting partner Frederick Loewe had expressed no interest in working in Hollywood, so Lerner agreed to write the screenplay only.
Filming Locations
- A signature scene was filmed on location at Maxim's, the famous Belle Epoque restaurant with its ornate Art Nouveau mirrored walls.
- And that melody ended up being the title song for Gigi." In September, the cast and crew flew to California, where several interior scenes were filmed, among them a scene in Maxim's, which included a musical number by Jourdan.
Previous Showings
20 Runs • 11 Festivals
36,248 tickets sold
All runs on record (20):
- July 20 - 26, 1990 · 6,632 ticketsw/ The Reluctant Debutante
- August 24 - 27, 1991 · 2,473 ticketsw/ An American in Paris
- December 26 - 31, 1992 · 2,872 ticketsw/ An American in Paris
- August 20 - 22, 1994 · 1,747 ticketsw/ The Reluctant Debutante
- January 1 - 11, 1996 · 2,502 ticketsw/ Father's Little Dividend, Fanny
- August 8 - 9, 1996 · 1,042 ticketsw/ The Reluctant Debutante
- August 30 - September 2, 1997 · 1,982 ticketsw/ The Reluctant Debutante
- August 28 - 31, 1999 · 1,808 ticketssummer99w/ The Reluctant Debutante
- February 9 - 11, 2001 · 960 ticketsw/ The Reluctant Debutante
- October 19 - 20, 2002 · 1,273 ticketsFall Folliesw/ The Reluctant Debutante
- August 21 - 24, 2004 · 2,036 ticketsSummer 2004w/ The Reluctant Debutante
- June 25 - 28, 2006 · 1,315 ticketsRonald Colmanw/ Her Sister from Paris, The Reluctant Debutante
- July 24 - 27, 2009 · 2,285 ticketsSummer 2009w/ Meet Me in St. Louis
- December 4 - 5, 2009 · 863 tickets20th Anniversary Festivalw/ The Reluctant Debutante
- May 7 - 9, 2011 · 868 ticketsMusicalsw/ The Love Parade
- July 7 - 10, 2012 · 1,083 ticketsSummer 2012w/ Love in the Afternoon
- August 23 - 24, 2014 · 1,118 ticketsSummer 2014w/ The Reluctant Debutante
- August 6 - 9, 2016 · 1,220 ticketsSummer 2016w/ The Reluctant Debutante
- October 28 - 30, 2022 · 605 ticketsw/ An American in Paris
- August 8 - 11, 2024 · 1,564 ticketsDirected by Vincente Minnelliw/ The Reluctant Debutante