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Title: Gigi

Release Date: 15 May 1958

Runtime: 1h 56m

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Director: Arthur Freed Production, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Production Companies: Arthur Freed Production, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 6.202 (320 votes)

Cast

  • Gilberte "Gigi": Leslie Caron
  • Honoré Lachaille: Maurice Chevalier
  • Gaston Lachaille: Louis Jourdan
  • Madame Alvarez ("Mamita"): Hermione Gingold
  • Liane d'Exelmans: Eva Gabor
  • Sandomir: Jacques Bergerac
  • Aunt Alicia: Isabel Jeans
  • Manuel: John Abbott
  • Young Lady with White Sunshade: Corinne Marchand
  • Girl at Maxim's: Marie-Hélène Arnaud
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