![]() ![]() Aging adults like Honoré, his would-have-been lover Madame Alvarez (Gingold), and her sister Alicia (Isabel Jeans) defend the system by which a wealthy man indulges himself with the company of a woman, who will someday be disposed of and left with some ritzy memories and ritzier jewelry. ![]() The sexual politics of Gigi are foreign and arcane. The men of Paris in Gigi are lovers above all else-there’s a good joke in here somewhere about the French fighting, I’m sure, if only I could find it-and bigger girls are the ultimate prizes. “Thank heaven for little girls,” Honoré (Maurice Chevalier) sings, and it’s as apt an opening for the film as there could be there can be no question of why they are thanking heaven. Starring River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, William Richert Starring Louis Jourdan, Leslie Caron, Hermione Gingoldĭir. But it's really star wattage that keeps this film exciting, that and such great songs as "On the Street Where You Live" and "I Could Have Danced All Night." Actor Jeremy Brett, who gained a huge following later in life portraying Sherlock Holmes, is quite electric as Eliza's determined suitor.Dir. The letterbox edition of this film on video certainly pays tribute to the pageantry of Cukor's set, but it also underscores a certain visual stiffness that can slow viewer enthusiasm just a tad. Based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, My Fair Lady stars Rex Harrison as linguist Henry Higgins (Harrison also played the role, opposite Julie Andrews, on stage), who draws Eliza into a social experiment that works almost too well. My Fair Lady Hollywood's legendary "woman's director," George Cukor, transformed Audrey Hepburn into street-urchin-turned-proper-lady Eliza Doolittle in this film version of the Lerner and Loewe musical. Hollywood's long-running infatuation with Continental grace and manners, the memory of a much earlier time imported to American movies through such immigrant directors as Ernst Lubitsch, may have finally come to a gentle end with this film. What a musical it is (by Lerner and Loewe): Maurice Chevalier and Hermione Gingold crooning "Ah, Yes, I Remember It Well," plus the songs "Thank Heaven for Little Girls," "Gigi," "I'm a Bore," and "She's Not Thinking of Me." Director Minnelli makes a sumptuous, dreamy, almost laid-back affair of it all, and the indispensable cast is forever etched into memory. Songs include "'S Wonderful," "I Got Rhythm," and "Love Is Here to Stay." Gigi Vincente Minnelli's 1958 adaptation of Colette's story about a girl (Leslie Caron) groomed as a courtesan-but desired as a wife by a Parisian playboy (Louis Jordan)-won a lot of Oscars®, but it also has the unusual distinction of being an MGM musical shot on location in the City of Lights. The final section of the film comprises a 17-minute dance sequence that took a month to film and is breathtaking. The plot is mostly an excuse for director Vincente Minnelli to pool his own extraordinary talent with those of choreographer-dancer-actor Kelly and the artists behind the screenplay, art direction, cinematography, and score, creating a rapturous musical not quite like anything else in cinema. An American in Paris A GI (Gene Kelly) stays in Paris after the war to become an artist and has to choose between the patronage of a rich American woman (Nina Foch) and a French gamine (Leslie Caron) engaged to an older man. ![]()
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