Gigi / An American In Paris / High Society

Image Not Available Director: Charles Walters, Vincente Minnelli Dvd Release: 8th September, 2003 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Gigi is a novel by the French sentimental romance writer Colette about a wealthy cultured man of fashion who discovers that he is in love with a young Parisian girl who is being groomed for a career as a grande cocotte & eventually marries her. It became a 1948 French non-musical film, a 1951 Broadway play, a 1958 Hollywood musical film & a 1973 musical play. The Broadway version of the play, adapted by Anita Loos, opened on November 24, 1951 starring little known actress Audrey Hepburn playing the lead character. The 1958 movie starred Leslie Caron & Maurice Chevalier with support from Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold & Eva Gabor. The film was nominated for an Oscar in nine categories & won all nine. None of them, however, was for any of the acting awards. Academy Award for Best Picture - Arthur Freed, producer. Academy Award for Best Art Direction -Set Decoration, Black-and-White or Color - E Preston Ames, F Keogh Gleason, Henry Grace & William A Horning. Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color - Joseph Ruttenberg.

An American in Paris is a symphonic composition by American composer George Gershwin which debuted in 1928. Inspired by Gershwins time in Paris, it is in the form of an extended tone poem evoking the sights & energy of the French capital in the 1920s. In addition to the standard instruments of the Classical orchestra, the score features period automobile horns; Gershwin brought back some Parisian taxi-cab horns for the New York premiere of the composition. An American In Paris is second only to Rhapsody In Blue as a favorite of Gershwins classical compositions. Although Gershwin wrote many stage shows in his lifetime, he was long dead by the time the 1951 musical film, An American in Paris, was made. The film, unusually, was based on the orchestral work of the same name, rather than on a stage musical, but used songs already written for other Gershwin shows. Starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron & Oscar Levant, was set in Paris & directed by Vincente Minnelli from a script by Alan Jay Lerner. All of the music in the film is by George Gershwin & Ira Gershwin. Posters Of An American In Paris

Charles Walters, Hollywood director & choreographer most noted for his work in MGM musicals & comedies in from the 1940s to the 1960s. Born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York & educated at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He is notable for directing Esther Williams musicals involving underwater swimming & diving sequences, such as Dangerous When Wet, as well as several musicals starring Leslie Caron, such as Gigi & Lili. He has also directed musical remakes, including High Society, a remake of The Philadelphia Story & The Tender Trap, a remake of Bachelor Mother. Walters also directed the last pairing of Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers, The Barkleys of Broadway, as well as Cary Grant in the actors last film Walk, Dont Run. Posters Of High Society

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Vincente Minnelli was the professional name of Lester Anthony Minnelli who was born in Chicago, Illinois. Although an accomplished film director of the 1940s & 1950s, he is best known as the father of Liza Minnelli from his six-year marriage to Judy Garland. He directed numerous films, including Meet Me in St. Louis, An American in Paris, Brigadoon, Kismet,, Gigi. His last film was A Matter of Time. He was the only surviving child of Vincent Minnelli, the conductor of the Minnelli Brothers Tent Theatre. Minnelli is credited with inventing the crab dolly for movie cameras. On his passing, he was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Posters Of An American In Paris

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