Overview
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.
Fun facts
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Awards
Won 9 awards, including the Oscars for Best Picture and Best Film Editing (1959)
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Box office
Grossed $13.2M worldwide, about 4.0 times its $3.32M budget
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Based on
Based on the novel Gigi
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Setting
Set in Paris
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Music
Music by Frederick Loewe
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Joseph Ruttenberg and Ray June
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Alan Jay LernerScreenplay
- ColetteNovel
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- May 15, 1958
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- $3.3M
- Revenue
- $13.2M
- Countries
- United States of America
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No subscription or free streaming listed. It can be rented or bought.
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Cast
Leslie CaronGigi
Maurice ChevalierHonoré Lachaille
Louis JourdanGaston Lachaille
Hermione GingoldMadame Alvarez
Eva GaborLiane D'Exelmans
Jacques BergeracSandomir- Isabel JeansAunt Alicia
John AbbottManuel
Corinne MarchandYoung Lady with White Sunshade (uncredited)
Marie-Hélène ArnaudGirl at Maxim's (uncredited)
Anne-Marie MersenMaxim Girl (uncredited)
Jack AryWaiter at Palais De Glace (uncredited)- Daniel AubéBoy at Jardins Des Tuileries (uncredited)
- Richard BeanHarlequin (uncredited)
Cecil BeatonGentleman in Park (uncredited)- Jacques BertrandMaitre D'Hotel Maxim's (uncredited)
- Paul CristoRestaurant Patron (uncredited)
Hubert de LapparentGaston's Private Secretary (uncredited)
Cilly FeindtGirl on Horseback at Pré Catelan (uncredited)
Edwin JeromeCharles (uncredited)
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