Gigi
Thank heaven for Gigi
1958 • 115 min • Comedy · Romance
Synopsis
A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, who's gone from girlish gawkishness to cultured glamour before our eyes, yearns for that wonderful something money can't buy.
Our family guide
Best from age 10- 100 Reviewers · 1 · 51%
- 62 Audience · 355 · 49%
A young Parisian woman, Gigi, comes of age under the guidance of her sophisticated aunt and grandmother. When a wealthy playboy, Gaston, takes an interest in her, Gigi must decide if she will follow the path laid out for her or pursue a different kind of love.
- Violence & peril
- 0/10
- Language
- 1/10
- Drinking, drugs & smoking
- 3/10
- Romance & sensuality
- 3/10
- Scary moments
- 0/10
Heads up
- Discussions of becoming a courtesan
- Some stylized romantic situations
- Frequent champagne consumption
What it models well
- Finding your own path
- Authenticity
- True affection
Talk about it after
- Traditional roles for women
- The meaning of true love
- Choosing your own future
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Top billed cast
Director: Vincente Minnelli • Crew: Alan Jay Lerner
Leslie Caron
Gigi
Maurice Chevalier
Honoré Lachaille
Louis Jourdan
Gaston Lachaille
Hermione Gingold
Madame Alvarez
Eva Gabor
Liane D'Exelmans
Jacques Bergerac
Sandomir
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Isabel Jeans
Aunt Alicia
John Abbott
Manuel
Corinne Marchand
Young Lady with White Sunshade (uncredited)
Marie-Hélène Arnaud
Girl at Maxim's (uncredited)
Trailers & clips
Gigi - Original Theatrical Trailer
Reviewer notes
RecommendedThank heavens, for musicals. Based on Anita Loos' play, out of the novel written by Colette, Gigi snatched a ream of Academy Awards and promptly became the course of much debate and criticism for ever and a day it seems. The problem, as most musical aficionados will attest, is that Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe rehashed their previous stage hit "My Fair Lady".…
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Details
- TMDB audience
- 6.2/10 (355)
- Age rating
- G
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $3,319,355
- Box office
- $13,200,000
- IMDb
- tt0051658
