This page will contain wikis about Gigi, as they become available.Gigi (1958 movie)Gigi is a 1958 motion picture musical set in Paris, France. It is based on the bestselling novel by French author, Colette. It is considered the last great MGM musical. In additional to numerous awards, the film also has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. Primary cast
AwardsThe film was nominated for an Oscar in nine categories, and won all nine. Awards wins
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The film was nominated for an Oscar in nine categories, and won all
nine. "Uncle Trusty" then starts
telling the puppies about his good old friend "Old Reliable", and the film ends. It is based on the bestselling novel by French author, Colette. Tramp is released from the wagon, while Trusty is trapped under the wheel. Gigi is a 1958 motion picture musical set in Paris, France. Several passers-by are helping the driver and trying to release the horses when a taxi pulls up and Jim Dear and Lady get out. Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (Louis Jourdan). They confront the horses which are pulling the wagon and it topples over into a tree. Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (Maurice Chevalier). Jock and Trusty are both waiting outside the house and hear about the rat. They decide to go after the dog catcher's wagon and finally sniff its scent, and run towards the wagon while it is just yards away from the dog pound. Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy (Leslie Caron). They see the dead rat and everyone knows that Lady and Tramp had entered the house to catch the rat. Best Soundtrack Album, Dramatic Picture Score or Original Cast (André Previn). Aunt Sarah, Jim Dear and Darling all follow her. Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay (Alan Jay Lerner). Lady begins barking frantically and runs upstairs. Writers Guild of America for Best Written American Musical (Alan Jay Lerner). They then unlock the cellar door and release Lady, despite Aunt Sarah's fears that Lady would harm the baby. Best Music, Song (Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics), Frederick Loewe (music) - For the song "Gigi"). Just as the dog catcher is collecting Tramp, Jim Dear and Darling return. Academy Award Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture (André Previn). She tries to convince him to destroy Tramp; meanwhile, Lady is locked in the cellar. Academy Award for Film Editing (Adrienne Fazan). Aunt Sarah calls the dog pound and demands that the dog catcher come to collect Tramp. Academy Award for Costume Design, Black-and-White or Color (Cecil Beaton). Tramp eventually manages to kill the rat but in the process tips over the baby's cot, and Aunt Sarah is awakened by the baby crying. Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Color (Joseph Ruttenberg). Just as the fight is reaching its climax, Lady comes in. Horning). He chases the rat all around the bedroom. Keogh Gleason, Henry Grace, and William A. Tramp enters the house and soon comes face to face with the rat. Preston Ames, F. Then Tramp re-appears and Lady tells him that the rat has gone into the baby's room. Academy Award for Set Decoration, Black-and-White or Color – (E. She barks so loud that Aunt Sarah wakes up and tells her to stop barking. Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress (Hermione Gingold). Just as Tramp is leaving, a rat appears in the garden and Lady begins to bark. Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures (Vincente Minnelli & assistant, George Vieira). And when Tramp comes, she is angry with him for getting her locked up in the pound, and tells him she does not want to see him again. Golden Globe Award for Best Director (Vincente Minnelli). Jock and Trusty both come to see Lady, but she is not in the mood for visitors. Academy Award for Directing (Vincente Minnelli). Because she has a name tag, she is soon identified and taken home—but Aunt Sarah chains her to a kennel in the garden. Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy. Lady is captured by the dog catcher and taken to the dog pound, where she does not stay for long. Academy Award for Best Picture. The next morning, they chase chickens around a chicken pen, and narrowly escape being shot by the owner of the chicken house. Isabel Jeans : Aunt Alicia. They sleep for the night in a nearby park. Jacques Bergerac : Sandomir. Tramp then takes Lady to Tony's Italian Restaurant, where Tony the cook prepares them a special spaghetti meal. Eva Gabor : Liane d'Exelmans. Tramp then takes Lady around the town, introducing her to a few of his friends, including a beaver who removes Lady's muzzle. Hermione Gingold : Madame Alvarez. Lady comes face to face with a group of vicious dogs on the other side of town, but Tramp arrives on the scene and rescues Lady. Louis Jourdan : Gaston Lachaille. Aunt Sarah then takes Lady to a pet shop to have her fitted with a muzzle, but Lady runs away while the shopkeeper is trying to fit her with a muzzle. Maurice Chevalier : Honore Lachaille. Lady scares Si and Am and they pretend to have been hurt, which causes Aunt Sarah to come downstairs. Leslie Caron : Gigi. But she begins to bark when the two cats go up the stairs to see the baby. Lady manages to keep the goldfish and canary safe from harm, but is unable to prevent the two cats from knocking over furniture and tearing the curtains. Aunt Sarah, who is not fond of dogs, has two Siamese cats—Si and Am—who run wild in the house. Soon after the baby is born, Jim Dear and Darling go away for a few days and Aunt Sarah comes to the house to look after the baby. She is mystified by this but soon grows to like the new baby boy. Darling then has a baby and Lady feels that Jim Dear and Darling are not giving her as much attention as before. A short time afterwards, she becomes friends with another dog—a stray dog called Tramp. She makes friends with two dogs living nearby, Jock and Trusty. When Lady is six months old, she has to have a licence and is able to leave Jim Dear and Darling's house. She quickly becomes the centre of their attention and is pampered with many presents. Lady is a gift from Jim Dear to his wife Darling one Christmas. Scamp also starred in a direct-to-video sequel in 2002 titled Lady and the Tramp 2: Scamp's Adventure. This film begat a spinoff comic titled Scamp, named after one of Lady and Tramp's puppies. Greene later wrote a novelization of the film, which was released two years before the film itself, at Walt Disney's insistence, so that audiences would be familiar with the story. The film was based loosely on two previous works, the 1937 book Happy Dan, The Whistling Dog by Ward Greene about a mutt from the wrong side of the tracks, and a story line worked on for several years by Disney story man Joe Grant about a Cocker Spaniel named Lady, based on his own pet. Once of the two of them meet, they share an adventure together and eventually fall in love. The story pairs a Cocker Spaniel named Lady who lives with a rich family with a mutt (possibly part Great Dane) named Tramp who lives on the streets. It was the first animated feature filmed in the CinemaScope widescreen film process. It was produced by Walt Disney Productions and was originally released to theaters on June 16, 1955 by Buena Vista Distribution, a new division of Disney which assumed distribution rights of the studio's product from RKO Radio Pictures. Lady and the Tramp is the fifteenth animated feature in the Disney animated features canon. |