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.
Production
Minnelli's Technicolor Paris is a fever dream of excess
Costume
Cecil Beaton's gowns that scream 'expensive mistake'
Score
Lerner & Loewe earworms you'll hum guiltily later
Director
Vincente Minnelli
Leslie Caron
Gigi
Maurice Chevalier
Honoré Lachaille
Louis Jourdan
Gaston Lachaille
Hermione Gingold
Madame Alvarez
Eva Gabor
Liane D'Exelmans
Jacques Bergerac
Sandomir
Isabel Jeans
Aunt Alicia
John Abbott
Manuel
Corinne Marchand
Young Lady with White Sunshade (uncredited)
Marie-Hélène Arnaud
Girl at Maxim's (uncredited)
Anne-Marie Mersen
Maxim Girl (uncredited)
Jack Ary
Waiter at Palais De Glace (uncredited)
Cecil Beaton
Gentleman in Park (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Won 9 Oscars including Best Picture, beating Vertigo—Hollywood chose pastel escapism over Hitchcock's masterpiece.
Leslie Caron hated her 'I Remember It Well' costume so much she burned it after filming.
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