Gigi

Leslie Caron   d/ Vincent Minelli

Lavish costume period piece done during the heyday of musicals. Very silly film with a few good songs and many poor ones. Interesting cast of mercifully forgotten B-list players...Hermoine Gingold, Eva Gabor(!), Maurice Chevalier, etc

This bordered on unwatchable. Once the swirl of spectacular outfits and chic locations wore off we were left with a terminally idiotic story. Super-sanitized Colette.

The only saving grace was the opening...thank heaven for little girls...which has become a camp classic.

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