Leslie Caron plays Gigi, a foundling raised by two veteran Parisian
courtesans (Hermione Gingold and Isabel Jeans) to be the mistress of
wealthy young Gaston (Louis Jourdan). When Gaston falls in love with
Gigi and asks her to be his wife, the older women are appalled: never
has anyone in their family ever stooped to anything so bourgeois as
marriage! Weaving in and out of the story is Maurice Chevalier as an
aging boulevardier who, years earlier, had been in love with Gingold's
character. Chevalier gets most of the best Lerner & Loewe tunes, including
"Thank Heaven for Little Girls," "I'm Glad I'm Not Young Any More,"
and his matchless duet with Gingold, "I Remember it Well." Caron's best
number (dubbed by Betty Wand) is "The Night They Invented Champagne,"
while Jourdan gets the honor of introducing the title song. Filmed on
location in Paris, Gigi
won several Oscars, including Best Picture; it also represented the
successful American movie comeback of Chevalier, who thanks to this
film was "forgiven" for his reputed collaboration with the Nazis during
World War II.
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