Gigi

Gigi1958

Director: Vincente Minnelli
Stars: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold, Eva Gabor
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Rating: G (General Audience)
Runtime: 116 minutes

An American in Paris A GI (Gene Kelly) stays in Paris after the war to become an artist and has to choose between the patronage of a rich American woman (Nina Foch) and a French gamine (Leslie Caron) engaged to an older man. The plot is mostly an ex… more »



Aunt Alicia:
Love, my dear Gigi, is a thing of beauty like a work of art, and like a work of art it is created by artists. The greater the artist the greater the art. And what makes an artist?

Gigi:
Cigars and jewelry?

Aunt Alicia:
Gigi, you're from another planet.

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  • gaylen_m
    Does anyone here know if these lines from the screenplay are also in the novella on which the movie is based?
    LikeReply1 year ago

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