Gigi News

Even in 1959, the Academy was old fashioned. That year, the Academy could have awarded the 1958 Best Picture to the sexually charged adaptation of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof or Stanley Kramer's gritty racial drama The Defiant Ones .

British writer Heidi Thomas is working on a retooled book for a Broadway-bound production of the musical Gigi , according to U.K.'s The Stage .

Leslie Caron: There was nothing to dislike about "Gigi," starring Leslie Caron , but 1958 should have been the year for "Vertigo." American Beauty : A not-bad film that contains many of the prevailing lies of its time, lies that have become more obvious with the passing years.